Summary Level View for Technology and Business Apps

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adgarcia
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Joined: 28 Sep 2017, 20:20

Greetings,

Being new to this forum and open source product please bear with me in the questions I ask. In looking through the Application Portfolio Management demos and views listed on the knowledge portal, I can't seem to find an out of the box view that suits my needs, which is a summary view of technology applications (commercial software products) and business applications from which I can then drill down into a specific app and the different componentry it is associated with (i.e. From a summary screen pick a particular software product and see the business apps that use it; conversely for a given business app the software products it's comprised of).

Is this a view that's available out of the box? Or something that we can build ourselves and integrate into the APM tool? We are looking to port our SharePoint based Enterprise System Catalog to an open-source APM tool as we are a small group and cannot secure funding for a commercial solution.

Thanks in Advance,

David
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neil.walsh
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Hi David,

Your "Technology Applications" are what we call "Technology Products". A Technology Product can be defined as a commercially available Technology product that an organisation can buy in order to provide Technology Components.

We have some OOTB views to what you're looking for.

Visit https://essentialviewer.com/demo
Click on the Technology Product Catalogue
Select a Technology Product (e.g. Oracle 10g ) and choose the Technology Product Summary.

Here's a target URL in case you're not sure
https://essentialviewer.com/demo/report ... acle%2010g

Here you'll see the Business Applications it supports, as well as the Technology Components it implements.

It works the other way from an Application too
https://essentialviewer.com/demo/report ... ary%20-ADE

Try this and let us know if it's what you're looking for.

Finally, it's worth saying that Essential was very much built as a platform rather than a black box. All the OOTB views can be extended, copied customised, etc or you can write your own views from scratch. If you don't see a view you need then you can build it or ask us too.

We understand lots of organisation have little or no budget for EA related activities but it's worth considering that we're very cost effective vs in-house developers given our experience and speed. We also have View Loaders to help with the kind of migration work you're doing. These can save you weeks of effort and are definitely worth a look. https://www.enterprise-architecture.org ... oaders.php

Cheers

Neil
JohnM
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Joined: 17 Feb 2009, 20:19

Hi David,

Adding to Neil's response. We've also got a software architecture view due in the next release, it focuses on the software components of an application. It's the start of what I think you are asking for and attached here if you are interested. A screenshot is also attached - It uses the high-level software architecture slot of the application. You'll also need to create a report and add a qualifying report (app catalogue) - for it to work.

If you want to build the view yourselves, it's probably a few hours work to build what you want, and you may find it useful to use elements of the code in the views below, which are more technology than software focused, but the structure is similar:

There is the Technology Alignment Model where you can see the technologies and application is using. see http://essentialviewer.com/demo/report? ... s&cl=en-gb

The opposite is the Technology Product Summary where you can see the apps using the technology product. see http://essentialviewer.com/demo/report? ... 5&cl=en-gb

The Business Domain IT Analysis gives a view of technology from the business capabilities see http://essentialviewer.com/demo/report? ... e&cl=en-gb

Let us know how you get on. If you get stuck then let us know and we'll see if we can help, we've got a fair bit of client work on at the moment, but will see if we can spare some time as we'd probably push this into the viewer as a free report anyway.

Hope that helps

John
PS as a more general point, if you are low on budget, we do sell some of the views in packs individually.
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adgarcia
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Joined: 28 Sep 2017, 20:20

Neil, John, Thanks so much for clarifying on what's available and available views! Will definitely take all this into account as I forge ahead. I am going to download and install the product next to try it out, will be using SQL Server as a repository so I'll insure to read the various pitfalls and solutions regarding the use of SQL Server and required JDBC driver. Thanks again, Cheers. David
adgarcia
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Joined: 28 Sep 2017, 20:20

Hi John,

Regarding your general point about you all do sell some of the views in packs individually, just wanted some clarification. First of all, are all the views shown in the essential open source website free? or just some of them? and if they are not all free, can you please tell me which ones are not, and which views in packs you can sell individually, and how much they would cost? Thanks in Advance, David
JohnM
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Joined: 17 Feb 2009, 20:19

Hi David,

You can see the free and paid for views here https://enterprise-architecture.org/fea ... creenshots click All to see all the views on one page, the paid for ones have a '$' against them. The prices vary but are in the hundreds of pounds, not the thousands.

If you send me an email address or phone number (you can complete a contact form here https://enterprise-architecture.org/contact.php), I'll contact you to discuss in more detail.

Regards

John
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