What is our application portfolio?
The business question What is our application portfolio? offers a comprehensive analysis of the applications in your IT and ensures a single source of truth about your application portfolio.
Get an overview of the business capabilities that are supported by the most applications, which organizations own the most applications, the object states of the applications in the application portfolio, and the numbers of applications in application groups. Review a master list of all applications including indicators and the most important information about their relationships to other assets in the IT architecture.
This business question shows the following information:
- Business Capabilities: The bar chart displays business capabilities based on the number of supporting applications. Point to a bar to display a tooltip with the name of the business capability and the number of applications supporting it. Click Business Capabilities to navigate to a larger view of the chart.
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Business Owner: The doughnut chart shows organizations on the second level in the organization hierarchy based on the number of applications that the organization is responsible for. This includes the applications assigned to the subordinate organizations in the hierarchy. To understand how many applications are owned by an organization on a subordinate level in the organization hierarchy, click the
local filter button and specify the organization's name. - Object State: The pie chart shows number of applications having an Active, Plan, and Retired object state.
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Application Group: The pie chart shows the number of applications assigned to application groups on the first level of the application group. To understand how many applications are assigned to an application group on a subordinate level in the hierarchy, click the local filter button and specify the application group's name.
- The Applications data workbench shows a master list of all applications. You can use all features of the data workbench to slice-and-dice your data to do the analyses you are interested in.
Applications must be in the repository and well-documented to have meaningful results for this business question. Specify all attributes and KPIs for the applications to ensure a single source of truth for all applications in the application portfolio. Click here to find out how to update application data.
Go to the Data Quality page. The Data Completeness view indicates the data that is recommended for meaningful results to the business question. Scroll to the Pending Issues view to resolve the issues and to ensure that the data is complete.
Go to the Data Source page to review the application data that is used to answer the business question. The data source is a list report and cannot be edited.