What is our application landscape?
The business question What is our application landscape? helps you to understand the business capabilities based in the applications that support them. Analyze the current and planned application landscape based on various indicators to identify potential risks to your IT portfolio roadmap as well as rationalization opportunities for your business.
Use the method that is most convenient for you:
- In the left navigation panel, enter What is our application landscape? in the Search Navigation field.
- In the left navigation panel, click Home. In the content area, go to the Business Questions page and click the tile for What is our application landscape?
- In the left navigation panel, expand the sections Business Questions and Roadmapping and click What is our application landscape?
A nested matrix shows the business capability model and the applications that support the business capabilities. Here's how to interpret the information:
- Each business capability is represented by a nested box in the matrix.
- Up to 4 levels of business capabilities in the business capability hierarchy can be displayed. To see all 4 levels, ensure that the Aggregate on Business Capability Level filter is not specified. Each business capability is colored according to its hierarchy level, starting with dark blue for the highest level, followed by shades of dark green to light green on the fourth level.
- Applications that provide the business capability are displayed inside the nested box representing the business capability.
- If there are more than 11 applications providing the business capability, an element will show how many applications are not displayed in the matrix. Double-click the element to open a data workbench showing a complete list of applications providing the business capability.
- Hide business capabilities that are not provided by applications via the Show only business capabilities with applications filter.
- Applications may be aggregated to business capability on the second or third level via the Aggregate on Business Capability Level filter. For example, select 2 to aggregate the applications from business capabilities on the 3rd and 4th levels to their parent business capability on the second level.
- Applications may be colored based on the Color Rule field and indicators may be added for applications via the Show Application KPI field. Click the
3-dots button > Show Legend to understand the color coding.
If you have the relevant access permissions, you can edit the business capabilities and application in this business question.
- To edit a single business capability, double-click the business capability in the matrix to open its content area.
- To open a data workbench to edit all business capabilities, click the
edit button > Edit Business Capabilities. 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. - To edit a single application, double-click the application in the matrix to open its content area.
- To open a data workbench to edit the applications providing a specific business capability, click the business capability and click the edit button > Edit Applications of Business Capability.
Business capabilities and applications must be in the repository and well documented. The following data is required to have meaningful results:
- Defined business capability model with parent business capabilities and their subordinate business capabilities.
- For each business capability, specify the Business Relevance attribute
- For each application:
- Specify the business capabilities that the application provides
- Specify the application's indicators
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 business capabilities and their providing applications that are used to answer the business question. The data source is a list report and cannot be edited.