What is our technology usage?

The business question What is our technology usage? helps you to understand the use of components in different business segments. Get an overview of which components provide support to applications and which components enable business capabilities. Understand where risks can be reduced for business-critical technologies.

Review a master list of all components including their level of standardization in the enterprise. Analyze which technologies are business critical and where potential costs can be saved by eliminating unused technologies.

The license package IT Transformation Server - Enterprise is required to work with this business question.

  • Technology Usage by Applications: The bar chart displays the ten most-used components based on their use by applications. The bars are colored based on the specification of the component's Standardization attribute:
    • Approval Required: The use of this component must be approved.
    • Free for User: The component may be used. Users do not need approval to use the component.
    • Not Permitted: The component may not be used.
    • Unknown: The component is not assigned to a standardization category.
  • Technology Usage by Business Capability: The doughnut chart shows business capabilities based on the percentage of aggregated components that enable each business capability and its subordinate business capabilities. The first level business capabilities are displayed per default. Click the  Filter local filter button and specify the Business Capability Hierarchy Level field to analyze technology usage on a different level of business capabilities.
  • The Unused Technologies data workbench shows a list of all components in the repository that are not used by an application.

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

  • The business capabilities that the component enables
  • The applications that use the component
  • Standardization attribute

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 IT capabilities and components that are used to answer the business question. The data source is a list report and cannot be edited.