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  2. Overview of Business Questions
  3. Understand application deployment
  • Overview of business questions
  • Transparency
    • What is our application portfolio?
      • Identify all active applications
      • Identify applications owned by an organization
      • Identify all applications supporting a business capability
      • Identify strategic applications
      • Identify the most expensive applications
      • Identify applications to sundown
      • Understand who is responsible for an application
    • What is our technology portfolio?
      • Identify standard components
      • Understand who is responsible for a component
    • What is our technical debt?
      • Identify applications that are at risk
      • Identify technology migration needs
      • Identify technology migration needs
      • Identify business capabilities at risk
      • Identify IT capabilities at risk
    • Who are our vendors?
      • Identify vendors with critical components
      • Identify vendors important to the business
      • Identify vendors important to the technology infrastructure
    • What are our architectural dependencies?
      • Identify applications are potentially obsolete
      • Understand impact of migration to data flows
      • Identify planned information flows
    • Which business areas require the most IT support?
      • Identify at-risk business processes
      • Identify application support
      • Identify technological risk
    • Which contracts should we review?
      • Identify the most critical contracts
      • Identify cost savings
      • Identify contracts relevant for planned architecture changes
      • Focus on contracts provided by a vendor or organization
      • Identify contracts relevant for a part of the business
      • Hide predecessor/successor contracts
    • What is our service catalog?
      • Understand the business capabilities supported by business services
      • Understand service portfolio costs
      • Identify strategic business services
      • Understand who is responsible for a business service
    • Where are our applications deployed?
      • Understand application deployment
    • What is our AI portfolio?
      • Understand the applications providing AI features
      • Identify components providing AI models or AI technologies
      • Assess AI for for risk and compliance
      • Identify high risk AI features
      • Identify AI features and AI models in review
    • What are our AI dependencies?
      • Understand the information displayed
      • Understand how an application provides AI features
      • Understand an AI feature's impact
      • Understand how AI enables a business capability
      • Execute an impact analysis on the AI portfolio
    • What is our data landscape?
    • What are our middleware integrations?
  • Governance
    • Who is responsible for our assets?
      • Find assets with no responsibilities defined
      • Find assets that a user is responsible for
      • Identify the users and organizations responsible for an asset
      • Define responsibility for an asset
    • Who owns which applications?
      • Improve the data regarding application ownership
      • Understand which organizations own applications supporting a business capability
      • Understand which organizations own active applications
    • What is our standards catalog?
      • Show components on first-level IT capabilities
      • Identify IT capabilities with non-standard components
      • Understand the applications using a component
      • Understand who is responsible for a component
    • What should we be focusing on?
      • Identify business capabilities requiring attention
      • Understand the current application support
      • Understand the future application support
      • Understand which organizations own critical business capabilities
      • Identify business capabilities used by a specific organization
    • Who owns our technologies?
      • Improve the data regarding technology ownership
      • Understand which organizations own components supporting an IT capability
      • Understand which organizations own active components
    • Where is AI impacting business?
      • Understand the impact of AI on a business capability
      • Understand AI's impact to mission-critical business capabilities
      • Understand AI's impact on market differentiators
      • Understand AI's impact on revenue contribution
  • Finance
    • What is our OPEX distribution?
      • Identify cost savings through application rationalization
    • What is our CAPEX distribution?
    • What are our cost drivers?
      • Identify current application costs
      • Review the most expensive business capabilities
      • Identify applications to rationalize
      • Identify project costs
    • What are our service costs?
      • Identify the most expensive services
      • Identify the most expensive planned services
      • Identify service costs for an organization providing services
  • Rationalization
    • What are our investment/retirement candidates?
      • Identify applications for investment
      • Reassess the strategic recommendation
      • Identify issues with planned applications
    • What is the status of our rationalization plan?
      • Understand cost savings due to rationalization
      • Analyze trends in rationalization activity
      • Understand planned applications
    • What are our service overlaps?
      • Understand which assets deliver a service
      • Identify risks in service delivery
      • Identify rationalization candidates
    • Where do we have functional redundancies?
  • Cloud Migration
    • What are our cloud focus areas?
      • Indentify candidates for migration
      • Identify candidates for sundowning
      • Review costs of migration candidates
    • What is our cloud migration strategy?
      • Identify applications to migrate
      • Identify applications to retire
      • Identify the business capabilities impacted by cloud migration
  • Roadmapping
    • What is our application landscape?
      • Identify the most important applications
      • Understand future applications
      • Identify risks to business support
      • Identify complexity
    • What is our target architecture?
      • Understand the support for business capabilities
      • Understand applications providing business support
      • Understand planned business support
      • Identify applications recommended for the target architecture
      • Identify risk due to technical obsolescence
    • What is our application roadmap?
      • Review successor applications
      • Change an application lifecycle
      • Understand changes to application support
    • What is our vendor roadmap?
      • Review the organizations buying our contracts
      • Review the vendors and organizations providing contracts
      • Understand future vendor roadmap
      • Identify the contracts that will end soon
      • Identify excess contracts
      • Identify expensive contracts
    • What is our technology roadmap?
      • Review successor components
      • Change a component lifecycle
      • Understand changes to component support
      • What technology is planned for an IT capability?
    • What is our service landscape?
      • Identify the most important services
      • Identify risks to services
      • Understand future business services and support services
    • What is our service roadmap?
      • Review successor business services
      • Change a business service lifecycle
      • Understand changes to business service delivery
  • Business Relationship
    • What is our demand pipeline?
      • Identify demands by requesting organization
    • Which demands should be realized?
      • Understand business value, architectural impact, and project risk
      • Identify demands to prioritize
    • How do we manage our portfolio flow?
      • Identify epics requiring attention
      • Prioritize epics in the portfolio backlog
      • Identify strategy-relevant epics
      • Estimate the timeline for the epic
    • Who are our service providers and consumers?
      • Improve the data regarding business service providers
      • Understand which organizations provide business services supporting a business capability
      • Understand which organizations provide active business services
    • Where are our business priorities?
      • Understand the focus area
      • Identify maturity gaps
    • What is our technology usage?
      • Business-critical component support
      • Identify unused standard components
      • Understand who is responsible for a component
    • What is our business-IT alignment?
    • Where are our applications used?
  • Transformation
    • What are our most important projects?
      • Identify risk due to project complexity
      • Identify business impact due to project failure
      • Understand project risk to the IT infrastructure
      • Identify the most expensive projects
    • What are our project overlaps?
      • Understand which projects have assets in common
      • Define an asset that is impacted by a project
    • Where are our project dependencies?
      • Identify project dependencies requiring attention
      • Identify architecture affected by projects
    • What is the status of our project portfolio?
      • Identify projects at risk
      • Identify projects with dependencies
      • Change a project's milestones
    • How do we manage our program flow?
      • Identify features require attention
      • Prioritize features
      • Identify strategy-relevant features
    • What is our strategic progress?
    • Where can we expect resource constraints?
  • Risk
    • How will IT failure impact our business?
      • Understand the impact of a local shut-down
      • Understand the impact of application failure
      • Review the IT support of a business capability
      • Review the IT support of a business capability
    • Where do we use sensitive data?
      • Identify redundant use of data
      • Understand where personal data is used
      • Identify GDPR-relevant data
    • Where do we have technology risk?
      • Identify business capabilities at risk
      • Identify IT capabilities at risk
      • Edit the component lifecycle
      • Specify vendor lifecycle support for components
      • Display components owned by a specific organization
      • Display future component support
    • Where do we have SLA violations?
      • Identify at-risk business capabilities
      • Identify at-risk consumer organizations
      • Review the SLA violation
    • What is our security score?
      • Identify critical applications for IT security
      • Identify applications with no CIA score
    • Where is our data processed?
    • How are we executing our strategy?
      • Is my strategy at risk?
      • Which assets owned by an organization are impacted by the strategy?
      • Where are accountability gaps in strategic themes?
      • Where is value not defined for strategic themes?
      • Where is there a breakdown between strategy and execution?
    • What is our investment landscape?

Which applications are deployed at a location?

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  1. Go to the business question Where are our applications deployed? For each location deploying applications, a number is displayed in parenthesis next to the location name.
  2. You can gather detailed information about the location and its application deployments. Click any location and click the Navigate navigate button to open the location content area.
  3. Go to the Applications data workbench. All applications deployed at the selected location are displayed. Use the features of the data workbench to slice-and-dice your data to focus on data and do the analyses you are interested in.
  4. Go to the Deployment Structure view. The view shows the selected location on the left. To the right of the location are the physical servers, virtual servers, and the applications they host.
  5. To review details about the IT assets in the deployment structure, select any physical server, virtual server, or application and click the Navigate navigate button to open its content area.

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