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New preconfigured Demand to Budget workflows are available. The workflows supports the documentation of demands and the realization of those demands in projects.

A workflow can be triggered in the Demands data workbench via the new Register Demand button in the 3-dot menu which opens an editor panel to document the demand. The Register Demand button is also available in the content area of a demand. The next workflow step focuses on the decision to assign the demand to a new project or an existing project. If a new project is created, the relevant information captured for the demand can be copied to the new project and a new workflow is triggered to manage the new project. The Workflows node has been added to the left navigation panel so that users can see all workflow activities that they are responsible for.

The new workflows for demands and projects are available for users with the extension package Strategic Portfolio Management.

The following is available for users with the extension package Enterprise Architecture Management.

Manage the platform architecture via standard platforms and standard platform categories. Implement standard platforms to ensure that application platforms adhere to standards and compliance measures that are critical for the technical architecture. The sections Standard Platform and Standard Platform Category have been added to the Technology Architecture section of the navigation panel. Data workbenches and content areas are available to capture and analyze data for standard platform and standard platform categories. Add the standard platforms to application platforms to promote standardization. Associate IT capabilities to a standard platform to analyze the technology architecture on a high level and manage standard platforms by bundling them in standard platform categories.

Capture peripherals to document elements that are typically outside of the core scope of the IT architecture such as an application that is managed by business partners. Peripherals are available as a stereotype of the class Application. The section Peripherals has been added to the Technology Architecture section of the navigation panel. A data workbench and content area are available to capture and analyze data for peripherals. Specify connections between peripherals and applications in the IT landscape via information flows.

Organization groups and vendor products are available for customer configurations. Preconfigured content areas and data workbenches for the classes Organization Group and Vendor Product can be added to your solution configuration.

Extended deployment management. Alfabet supports two use cases to manage deployments. Per default, applications are associated with physical and virtual servers via the reference array property Hosting Servers (SAG_Devices ). In this use case, a direct reference exists between applications and physical/virtual servers, and the Deployment Structure view in the Technology Context page in the application content area shows the relationships between business capabilities, applications, servers, and locations.

In the other use case, you can explicitly specify deployments that describe how the application is deployed on the servers. In this case, you can create a deployment in the Deployments view in the Technology Context page in the application content area. The Deployment Structure view shows the relationships between business capabilities, applications, deployments, and servers. Navigation to the deployment content area displays a Deployment Structureview where you can rescan the deployment so that a deployment element is created for each local component that the application uses.

To implement this use case, you must specify the XML attributes <UseCase Name="Deployment Management" Active="true"/> and <UseCase Name="Device Management" Active="false"/> in the XML object ProductUseCaseScope . The necessary views to capture and analyze deployments will be added to your Alfabet solution and relevant business questions will be updated to reflect the deployments. To migrate existing references between applications and physical and virtual servers to deployments, trigger the ADIF scheme DataMigrationDeploymentManagement to create a deployment for each reference. To implement the default use case where applications directly reference physical/virtual servers, specify <UseCase Name="Device Management" Active="true"/> and <UseCase Name="Deployment Management" Active="false"/>.

The business question Who owns our technologies? is available in the Governance section of the navigation panel. The business question helps you to ensure that organizational responsibility is documented for all components in the technology portfolio.

Doughnut charts shows the percentage of components owned by organizations that have the roles Component Owner or Operations. The charts also indicate the percentage of the company's components that have no organizational ownership defined so that these issues can be corrected on the spot. With this business question, you can efficiently identify gaps in organizational responsibility and mitigate risk to your company's IT infrastructure.

The business question can be accessed by users with the base package IT Transformation Server - Enterprise.

The business question What is our technology portfolio? is available in the Transparency section of the navigation panel. The business question offers a comprehensive analysis of the components in your IT and ensures a single source of truth about your technology portfolio.

Get an overview of the IT capabilities that are supported by the most components, which organizations own the most components, and the object states of the components in the technology portfolio. Review a master list of all components including indicators and the most important information about their relationships to other assets in the IT architecture.

The business question can be accessed by users with the base package IT Transformation Server - Enterprise.

The business question Where is our technology roadmap? is available in the Roadmapping section of the navigation panel. The business question shows when components are planned to be implemented and when they will no longer provide IT support to the business.

Review component lifecycles and understand which applications they support. Look for components that are approaching their end-of-life but have no successor components planned. This business question helps you to identify gaps in technology support and take corrective action for components that are at risk.

The business question can be accessed by users with the base package IT Transformation Server - Enterprise.

The business question Where do we have technology risk? is available in the Risk section of the navigation panel. A nested matrix shows the business capability model with information about the amount of time that components will support the business capabilities.

For each business capability, understand the risk to components providing functional support and the remaining time that the vendor will support the component. The business question helps you to understand risks to the business due to the discontinuation of technology support as well as to identify areas to standardize and rationalize components in technology-dense business capabilities.

The business question can be accessed by users with the base package IT Transformation Server - Enterprise.

The Reports node has been added to the Analysis Tools section in the left navigation panel. The Reports functionality allows users to access configured reports including data table reports.

The Reports view is available to users with the base package IT Transformation Server - Enterprise.