Data requirements

Applications must be in the repository and well-documented. The following application data is required for this business question. Click for information about documenting applications.

• End Date attribute
• Recommendation attribute
• Cloud Migration Strategy attribute

  Applications for which the Cloud Migration Strategy attribute is set to Migrated and the Architecture Type attribute is set to Cloud-Based are not considered for this business question. These objects may be cloud native or recently migrated to the cloud.

• Architecture Type attribute
• Authentication attribute
• Subject to Compliance Regulation attribute
• Peaks in Workload indicator. Click for details about how to evaluate the application's indicators.
• License Portability indicator
• Cost information. Click for details about how to specify the cost type values for the application's operational costs

Business capabilities must be in the repository. The following data is required:

• Business Relevance attribute
• Providing Applications reference. Click for details about how to specify the applications that provide a business capability.

Information flows must be in the repository. The following data is required:

• Object State attribute
• Source and target applications. Click for details about how to specify the source and targets of information flows.
• Virtual servers and physical servers. The Object State attribute must be specified for physical and virtual servers.

Check the completeness of your data. Go to the Data Quality page and resolve all issues to ensure that your data source is reliable and that you will have meaningful results for this business question. These issues should be resolved to generate accurate lifecycle and cost information for the applications. Click to understand more about improving your data quality.

Understand the data set used for the business question. Go to the Data Source page and review the applications used to generate the results for the business question. For each application, review the accuracy of the data displayed and navigate to its content area to make necessary changes. Click for information about documenting applications.