What data is required for What is our application portfolio?

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. The following data should be captured for each application to have meaningful results for the business question What is our application portfolio?

• Description attribute: Specify the purpose of the application.
• Development Type attribute: Specify the development context of the application.
• Recommendation attribute: Specify to help decide what to do with the application in the future.
• Architecture Type attribute: Specify the supported architecture for the application.
• Authentication attribute: Specify the application security.
• Status attribute: Specify the stage of the application in the approval process.
• Start Date attribute: Specify when the application starts actively running in the enterprise.
• End Date attribute: Specify in order to plan the application lifecycle.
• Object Stateattribute: Specify if the application is currently being used.
• Application lifecycle: Specify to understand dependencies between end-of-life technologies.
• Application Manager role: Specify who the subject matter expert is for the application.
• Business Owner role: Specify who owns the application and is responsible for managing the functional requirements.
• IT Owner role: Specify who owns the application and is responsible for technical and lifecycle decisions.
• Application costs: Specify for the budgeted years.
• Information flows: Document incoming and outgoing information flows for each application to understand the business data that is being transferred between applications.
• Used components: Specify the technological architecture of the application.
• Provided business capabilities: Specify how the application supports the business capabilities.
• Numbers of Users indicator: Specify to understand the impact and use of the application.

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.