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.
Use the method that is most convenient for you:
- In the left navigation panel, enter What is our technology usage? 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 technology usage?
- In the left navigation panel, expand the sections Business Questions and Business Relationship and click What is our technology usage?
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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.
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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
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.
The Unused Technologies data workbench shows a list of all components in the repository that are not used by applications. You can use all features of the data workbench to slice-and-dice your data to do the analyses you are interested in.
For example, focus on all components for which the Standardization column is blank and specify the value to improve the data. For all components, navigate to the content area and consider whether the component can be eliminated if no applications use the technology.
Here's what you can do to change the data in the view according to your needs:
- Click the caption Unused Technologies to drill down to have more space and to focus only on the data workbench.
- Click Structure and add or remove columns to the data table. A tooltip explains the purpose of each attribute, indicator, and role that you can add.
- Set filters for columns by entering filter criteria in the column header. Click Clear in the bottom right corner to remove the filter settings.Click Visualize to view the data in a different graphic visualizations. You can save these visualizations to your content repository and used them in other content area pages.
- Edit existing components directly in the data workbench.
- Select a component and click the
navigate button to open it's content area.
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.