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 asset. 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 for multiple assets can be added or edited such as on the root node of explorers or in the data source views of business questions. Each data workbench shows assets (objects) based on one object class. You will see all objects that you have permissions for based on your user group affiliation.
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.
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:
Business architecture: business capabilities, business processes, locations, organizations, and vendors.
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.
business process
A business process is a set of activities that represent work required to achieve a business objective. Marketing services, selling products, delivering services, distributing products, invoicing for services, and accounting for money received are examples of business processes.
location
A location is a geographic place that could be a country, city, building, or room, for example.
organization
An organization describes an administrative or functional unit in the enterprise.
vendor
A vendor is a supplier of components.
Application architecture: applications and application groups.
application
An application is a complete installation of a software offering a functionality to an end user. The application might consist of or require other technical components to run.
application group
An application group bundles a set of applications for an analytical purpose. For example, an application group may be a portfolio of CRM applications to be analyzed. An application may be assigned to multiple application groups and can therefore be analyzed from many different perspectives.
Information architecture: information flows, data categories, and business data.
information flow
An information flow describes the exchange of business data between source and target applications.
business data
Business data is the information exchanged between applications or components. Business data is transferred by information flows.
Technology architecture: IT capabilities, components, physical servers, and virtual servers.
IT capability
An IT capability bundles and structures content-specific components necessary for the IT infrastructure of data center operations. Mainframe operations, database management, and backup and recovery procedures are examples of IT 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.
physical server
A physical server is a device that deploys applications and components. Virtual servers may run on physical servers that are located in different locations around the world.
virtual server
A virtual server is typically an application server or web server. Virtual servers typically run on physical servers that are located in different locations around the world.
Project architecture: Projects and project groups.
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 button.
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