Where are our applications deployed?
The business question Where are our applications deployed? helps you to understand where applications are located and provides a quick overview about the deployment hotspots. The information is a source of input about security and disaster recovery activities for locations with critical applications.
Alfabet supports two use cases to manage deployments . Depending on the use case implemented by your company, the business question Where are our applications deployed? may show either the locations based on the the physical/virtual servers that deploy the application or based on the application deployments that specifically describe how the application is deployed on the physical and virtual servers via the logical set of installed elements that constitute one instantiation of an application.
Deployment management is specified by your solution designer in the XML object ProductUseCaseScope in the configuration tool Alfabet Expand.
The license package Enterprise Architecture Management is required to work with this business question.
Use the method that is most convenient for you:
- In the left navigation panel, enter Where are our applications deployed? 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 Where are our applications deployed?
- In the left navigation panel, expand the sections Business Questions and Transparency and click Where are our applications deployed?
A branching diagram visualizes locations and their subordinate locations and the number of applications that are deployed at the location. Parent locations are on the left. The subordinate locations branch out towards the right. For each location deploying applications, a number is displayed in parenthesis next to the location name.
You can gather detailed information about the location. Click any location and click the 
navigate button to open the content area and review the Deployment Structure view which visualizes all physical servers and virtual servers hosted at the location and the applications that the physical and virtual servers support. You can review and edit application details in the Applications data workbench.
If you have the relevant access permissions, you can edit the applications, physical servers, and virtual servers in this business question.
- 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.
- Click the
edit button > and select either Edit Applications, Edit Physical Servers, or Edit Virtual Servers. 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. 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.
Locations, physical and virtual servers, and applications must be in the repository and well-documented. The following data should be captured to have meaningful results for the business question Where are our applications deployed?
- Application > Physical server and virtual server: Specify the physical or virtual servers that the application runs on to understand the IT landscape and plan migration.
- Physical server > Location: Specify the location of a physical server to understand risks to the IT landscape.
- Virtual server > Physical server: Specify the physical server that the virtual server runs on,
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 application deployments that are used to answer the business question. The data source is a list report and cannot be edited.