Capture and maintain your data in data workbenches

Keeping your data accurate, up-to-date, and complete is at the heart of successful IT portfolio management. Only with a healthy data repository can you make informed strategic decisions about your business. Data workbenches are easy-to-use views that allow you to decide on which data you want to see.

The data workbench enables you to add missing data and update incomplete data. Data quality information is also highlighted in the data workbench so that you can immediately see if data quality is an issue for an object. Data can be updated directly in the data workbench or by navigating to related views where you can provide missing information or correct data quality issues.

Data workbenches are available throughout Alfabet FastLane whenever data can be added or edited. Each data workbench shows objects based on one object class. You will see all objects that you have permissions for based on your user group affiliation. For more about permissions, see Open the door to Alfabet FastLane: User profiles and access permissions . To capture and maintain your data, expand one of the following in the left navigation panel to access the objects you need to work with:

  1. Business architecture: business capabilities, business processes, locations, organizations, and vendors
  2. Application architecture: applications and application groups
  3. Information architecture: information flows, data categories, and business data
  4. Technology archicture: IT capabilities, components, physical servers, and virtual servers

The data workbench toolbar includes buttons for all relevant tasks. If your screen size is reduced, buttons will be automatically bumped to the three vertical dots ThreeDots button.

In the data workbench, you decide which columns of information you want to see. You can set filters to reduce a large dataset to only that data that you are currently interested in. In addition to the data table where you can edit and filter your data, you can display your data in many different graphic visualizations including Gantt charts (timelines), bar charts, line charts, spine charts, radar charts, pie charts, area charts, spine area charts, waterfall charts, doughnut charts, and Kanban reports.