Get started with the Application Manager user profile

Alfabet FastLane enables a single-source of truth about the applications in your IT portfolio. All applications should be documented to ensure that the application portfolio is a reliable source to make good strategic decisions. You can add new applications to the repository and maintain the data on applications that are already in the system.

The Application Manager user profile is for users who are responsible for capturing data relevant for application portfolio management. A user with this user profile has the following permissions:

• Permissions to create new applications in the Applications data workbench
• Permissions to edit applications displayed in the Applications data workbench. All applications assigned to authorized user groups that you are a member of will be visible.

  user group

  A user group determines the visibility of objects. One or more user groups may be granted authorized access to an object. The object is visible to all users assigned to a specified user group.

• Read-only permissions for referenced data. You will be able to see existing assets such as business capabilities or technological components that already exist in the repository. References to other objects can only be made if they already exist in the repository. For an overview of the dependencies between objects, see Data import and data capture

  business capability

  A business capability is a high-level description of what is done in a company to meet its business objectives. Market development, product development, and support and services are examples of business capabilities.

  component

  A component is a reusable block of functionality that provides technical functionality to the application or to the platforms that an application runs on. Components do not usually provide functionality to end users. Typical components are operating systems, database management systems, or application servers.

Your task in the Application Manager user profile is to add new applications and edit existing applications. You can specify all relevant information about an application including its basic data, responsible roles, lifecycle as well as the business capabilities that the application supports, the information flows with other applications in order to transfer business data, or the components that the application uses.