The business question What is our application portfolio? is the most comprehensive and ensures a single-source of truth about your application portfolio. It is a master list of all applications, their attributes, and their relationships to other aspects of the enterprise architecture. Discover the overall application data completeness of your portfolio.

Create an application master list with all attributes, direct and indirect relationships with various filters. Analyze and score applications to assess their maintenance as part of the overall application portfolio governance. Establish a single source of truth for all applications to save time in project scoping and roadmapping. Analyze your application portfolio based on relevant KPI metrics for quick analysis.

Technical debt describes the dependence of applications on technical components. The business question What is our technical debt? focuses on the dependencies of the applications in the application portfolio and highlights their dependencies on technical components based on lifecycle data.

Look for conflicts in the end dates of the applications and their dependent components and analyze lifecycle conflicts according to different time scales to support better planning and transparency. A technological component with an end date before the end date of the application is potential source of risk and increases the technical debt of your IT portfolio. With this information, you can address the technical debt before the application or component goes out of service and prioritize applications that require immediate migration. This business question ensures that you address the most urgent requirements for application migration or updates that are important for regulatory requirements but allows to effectively plan ahead.

The Gantt chart shows all active or planned applications that have at least one component with an end date before the application end date.

• To understand which active applications are running on obsolete components:

  Select already obsolete in the Lifecycle Conflict filter. To understand which components will be obsolete soon, select within six months.

• To understand the impact of obsolete components on the business:

  Select a business capability in the Business Capability field to understand potential lifecycle conflicts that may prevent application support to the business capability.

The business question Who are our vendors? provides an overview of your vendors and how they impact the components they provide as well as the indirect impact to the applications that use them and the business capabilities supported by those applications.

This business question and its associated analytics helps you to understand the end-of-life contracts for vendors and which vendors are potential risks to the technology architecture. Know which applications and which mission-critical business capabilities depend on vendors. Develop a vendor strategy for your company to decrease risk for the IT infrastructure.

The What are our architectural dependencies? business question examines the dependencies that applications have on other applications based on their information flows. The selected application is in the center and is green. The information flows show the incoming and outgoing relationships to other information flows. All other applications are colored based on their object state.

Click the Data Source button to view the information flows relevant to the selected application. You can do the following: