What are our architectural dependencies?

The business question What are our architectural dependencies? helps you to identify how application complexity may be reduced, understand the business data that may be at risk, and assess potential challenges to application migration.

Review the network diagram to understand the information flows for the selected application. Incoming information flows start with the source application and point to the selected application. Outgoing information flows start with the selected application and point to the target application. Point to an information flow to show a tooltip with the following information: Source application > target application.

A filter setting is mandatory for this business question. Click the Filter local filter button and select an application in the Application field.

The network diagram shows the application selected in the mandatory Application filter in the center of the visualization and its connections to other applications via information flows. Here's how to interpret the information:

  • The selected application's outgoing information flows point to the target application of the flow.
  • The selected application's incoming information flows point to the source application.
  • The information flows are colored based on their object state.
  • Multiple information flow attributes may be shown on the connections based on the attributes selected in Filter local filter button > Information Flow Attributes.

Applications must must be in the repository. The following data is necessary to have meaningful results for the business question What are our architectural dependencies?

  • Information flows: Document incoming and outgoing information flows for each application to understand the business data that is being transferred between applications.

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 and their information flows are used to answer the business question. The data source is a list report and cannot be edited.