General IT landscape planning

Once a process support map is created or updated, the IT landscape planner starts process-oriented documentation and planning of the IT support for individual business areas. To do this, the planner accesses the existing IT system inventory that is managed by the IT architecture manager in the ARIS repository. Double-clicking the process support unit starts the Edit process support unit macro.

The IT landscape planner first defines the type of process support for a process support unit (process support type). The following statuses are distinguished:

Right management of PSU (2)

No processing (process step is not relevant)

Right management of PSU (3)

Manual (manual support)

Right management of PSU (4)

System (support by an IT system)

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Varies (After you started the macro for multiple process support units of different process support types. If you change the process support type the selected type is transferred to all process support units. Assignments may be lost.)

The Add or Edit buttons can be used to add existing assignments to the cell or edit them.

The relevant assignment can now be selected in the search result, and information about the lifecycle can be saved if required. For example, the assignment becomes the to-be system if the To-be check box is enabled.

Once all assignments that are relevant to this cell have been entered, the dialog can be closed by clicking OK.

The assignments are now displayed in the corresponding cell.

The colored circle (traffic light) in the top right corner of the symbol indicates the relevant phase in the IT landscape planning lifecycle. A blue border indicates to-be systems.

Removing assignments from a process support cell and changing lifecycle data can be done in a procedure similar to the one described above. When an assignment is deleted from a cell, all attributes of the connection between assignment and process support unit, such as Status of process support or Phase-in planned since, are deleted, while only the assignment's occurrence is deleted from the model. As a result, the Update model macro ignores these assignments.

In the configuration file, the selection list can be filtered according to specific criteria using the Edit process support unit dialog. For example, this is useful if the Application system type object type is used not only for IT systems, but also for IT components. By default, the list is filtered by object type so that systems and components are displayed. By means of the configuration it is possible to prevent IT components that are not relevant to the process support map from beeing displayed in addition to the IT systems. The distinction can be made using the System type attribute, for example. A user-defined attribute can also be used instead.