What is our application roadmap?

The business question What is our application roadmap? shows when applications are planned to be implemented and when they will no longer provide support to the business.

A robust application lifecycle management includes versioning and planning for successor applications to ensure that IT continues to support critical business areas. Look for applications that are approaching their end-of-life but have no successor applications planned. This business question helps you to identify gaps in application support and take corrective action for applications that are at risk.

The visualization is a Gantt chart that shows the lifecycles of all applications in the repository. Here's how to interpret the information:

  • The rows show Application applications
  • Columns show a checkmark if an application's Strategic Application attribute is set to Yes. The Object State column indicates if an application is  ActiveState active,  PlanState plan, or  RetiredState retired.
  • The timeline shows a green bar visualizing the active period (start date - end date) of the application. If an application lifecycle is defined, lifecycle phases will be displayed in a multi-colored bar above the green bar:
    • App_Plan  Plan
    • App_Pilot  Pilot
    • App_Production  Production
    • App_Susnet  Sunset
    • App_Retired  Retired
  • The blue vertical line indicates the current date.
  • The relationships between predecessor and successor applications as well as predecessor and successor contracts are displayed as black lines. If an application has a successor application defined, a black line will begin at the end of the predecessor application's lifecycle and point to the start of the successor application lifecycle. Point to the black line to view a tooltip showing the predecessor application, successor application, and end date of the predecessor application.

Applications must be in the repository and well-documented. The following data is required about applications in order to have meaningful results:

  • Start and end dates
  • Lifecycle phases
  • Successor attribute (if known)

Go to the Data Quality page and resolve the issues to ensure that the data is complete.

Go to the Data Source page to review the applications that are used to answer the business question. The data source is a list report and cannot be edited.