Visualize all Application Dependencies

[tla]

Hello,

we are using Essential on a very low level at the moment, which means, we only captured Application provider static architectures and Stakeholders to visualize application dependencies.
This works very well on a per application basis over the Application Dependency Model report.

What we like to have is an overall view of all captured Applications and their dependencies to each other. We saw something like this in your video (https://youtu.be/GhGBJWcSa9g), where it was called the Application Dependency Network.

Is there an easy way so get this overview sight to the captured applications?

Thanks and regards,
Thomas

[JohnM]

Hi Thomas,

Sorry, that view isn't an out-of-the-box view, you'd need to develop the XSL yourself to render it or engage with our consultancy services to develop it for you.

Regards

John

[colinfrewen]

Hi Thomas,

We created a number of these reports using d3. It is easier to build network views and very quick.

https://d3js.org/

Colin

[tla]

Thanks for your fast replies!

@Colin: Maybe a dumb question: but did you use D3 with essential or did you build the graphs exernally? I'd love to hear more about how you did this.

Thanks and regards,
Thomas

[JohnM]

Hi Thomas,

Colin may have a different method, but to see how we do it have a look at the People Project Network xsl as that view combines the data in Essential with a visualisation.

John

[colinfrewen]

Hi Thomas,

Yep, we use D3 as the visualisation of Essential Data with (dendrogram, treemap, etc) WE have used

http://vizuly.io/product/radial-progress/?demo=d3js

in a few scenarios. You will need to do some json work initially although we built our later reports by building a report.xml2 with a subset of data and then converting to json dynamically.

It's pretty easy to embed. We have about 20 reports but you need to be careful as it can be slow to load.

Not sure it all makes sense
Colin