ARIS and Alfabet

Alfabet is an IT planning and portfolio management system. Based on answering the questions, when, where, how, and why to make changes in the IT portfolio, it is used to increase IT investment returns and reduce transformation risks.

You can use the ARIS - Alfabet Interoperability Interface to reuse objects from connected ARIS databases and Alfabet databases in the other system. This is done interactively and for one object at a time or as a batch job and for multiple objects. By default, data from applications can be transferred from Alfabet to the ARIS database, while processes and functions can be transferred from ARIS to the Alfabet database.

When Alfabet is configured with ARIS Architect, the Alfabet button is available in the Start tab bar. You can find the complete configuration and administration description in the ARIS Architect online help.

It is easy to navigate between the systems. For example, from a business process in Alfabet, you can jump to the corresponding function or to a model in ARIS that contains the function. In ARIS, you can jump, for example, from an application system to the related application in Alfabet.

You can do the following:

Map Alfabet object to ARIS object

You can map an Alfabet object to an ARIS object. Multiple mapping is not possible. By default, objects of the Application system type type can be mapped. In the description, this object type is used as an example.

Prerequisite

The database is connected with Alfabet.

Procedure

  1. Open a model that contains objects of the Application system type type.

  2. Select the relevant application system type.

  3. In the Start tab bar, click Alfabet Alfabet > Map Alfabet object Map Alfabet object. The Select Alfabet object dialog opens.

  4. Select the Alfabet table, for example, Application. You will see only those Alfabet objects you have the privileges to use. If you start typing the object name into the Filter field, the number of entries will decrease.

  5. Click the Alfabet object you want to map to the ARIS object. The option button is activated.

  6. Click OK.

The mapping between the Alfabet object and the ARIS object has been created. The name of the Alfabet object is now used for the ARIS object. Additional attributes have been entered for this object in the Alfabet attribute type group in ARIS.

Create Alfabet object

You can create a missing Alfabet object to be mapped to an ARIS object.

Prerequisite

The database is connected with Alfabet.

Procedure

  1. Open a model that contains objects of the Application system type type.

  2. Select the relevant application system type.

  3. In the Start tab bar, click Alfabet Alfabet > Map Alfabet object Map Alfabet object. The Select Alfabet object dialog opens.

  4. Select the Alfabet table, for example, Application.

  5. Click Create Alfabet object button. The Alfabet login dialog opens.

  6. Create the object in Alfabet.

  7. In the Select Alfabet object dialog of the modeling component, click Refresh Refresh.

The new object is listed in the table.

Jump to Alfabet

You can easily navigate to related Alfabet objects.

Prerequisite

The database is connected with Alfabet.

Procedure

  1. Open a model that contains objects that are mapped to Alfabet objects.

  2. Select the relevant object.

  3. Click Properties Details >Properties. If you opened the model in the published content, click Details Properties > Attributes.

  4. Click the Alfabet Link 1.

The mapped Alfabet object is displayed.

Unmap Alfabet object

You can delete the mapping between an ARIS object and an Alfabet object. By default, objects of the Application system type type can be mapped. In the description, this object type is used as an example.

Prerequisite

The database is connected with Alfabet.

Procedure

  1. Open a model that contains objects that are mapped to Alfabet objects.

  2. Select the relevant Application system type object.

  3. In the Start tab bar, click Alfabet Alfabet > Unmap Alfabet object Unmap Alfabet object.

The mapping between the selected ARIS object and the Alfabet object is removed without prompting. All attributes in the Alfabet attribute type group are deleted. The name of the Alfabet object continues to be used for the ARIS object.