Improvements

The Information Flow Diagram available in the application data workbench through the Visualize menu has been enhanced. A new Incoming Data filter allows users to display information flows that deliver business data to the downstream applications in the selected dataset. The Outgoing Data filter highlights information flows in which the upstream applications consume business data. These additions make it easier to understand how data moves across the application landscape and to analyze dependencies more precisely.

A policy is a formal guideline or rule of business conduct that the enterprise and its stakeholders should follow. Policies and policy groups can now be captured directly through data capture templates, making it easier to document and maintain them in a structured way.

Additionally, the content area shown when selecting the root node of the Policy Groups explorer has also been expanded. It includes a Policy Groups page, where policy groups can be created and managed, and a new Policies page, which lists all policies along with their start, end, and target dates as well as the policy group to which each policy is assigned. This provides a clearer overview of the policies in the repository and improves governance across the policy framework.

This enhancement is a resolution for ASD-9983.

The class Policy and Policy Group can be accessed by users with the extension package Enterprise Architecture Management. The use case Architecture Governance must be enabled.

The three doughnut charts for Business User License Usage, Data Steward User License Usage, and Analysis User License Usage on Home > User Statistics available in the Portfolio Admin user profile have been redesigned to provide a clearer and more accurate view of license consumption in Alfabet.

When no usage data is available for a license type, each chart displays the total number of licenses used. When usage data does exist, the total number of purchased licenses is shown in the doughnut hole and the slices indicate how many licenses are used and how many are still available. If usage exceeds the permitted number, an additional red Overdrawn slice highlights the number of excess users.

Each slice is interactive and opens the User License and Profile Assignment view. This view lists all users consuming each license type, along with the user profiles they use to access Alfabet and the license type associated with each profile. This transparency helps administrators understand exactly how the usage values shown in the charts are calculated. License counting follows a highest-entitlement principle. If a user has multiple profiles such as one requiring a Data Steward license, one requiring a Business User license, and one requiring an Analysis User license—the system counts only the Business User license as it grants the broadest access. As a result, the user appears only in the Business User License Usage chart and not in the Data Steward User License Usage and Analysis User License Usage charts.

Enterprise customers must click the Refresh Content Item option in the chart’s three-dots menu to update the current license usage in the doughnut chart. Please note that the doughnut charts for license usage are only valid if the user profiles and view schemes in the standard solution configuration are used.

This enhancement is a resolution for ASD-9847.

The User Administration view available in the Portfolio Admin user profile has been improved with two new read-only columns that display all user profiles and all user groups assigned to each user. This provides a clearer, more immediate overview of user access in Alfabet and makes it easier to understand how permissions are structured across the system.

Until now, Alfabet-Horizzon Interoperability was available for the Alfabet classes in the base packages IT Transformation Server - FastLane and IT Transformation Server - Enterprise. The integration logic for Horizzon has been extended and the scope is determined directly by the customer’s licensed modules, activated uses cases, and the corresponding classes available in the product. These are visible in the License Overview view available to the Portfolio Admin user profile. This ensures that the integration reflects the customer’s actual activated functionality more accurately.