There are some Essential features that make life easier or provide great insight, but we’re not sure all our users know they are there. Read on to see if you already have these sorted:
Application Landscape
You can see any KPIs defined for applications on the Application Landscape view.
The Application Landscape view provides a visual of your Applications mapped to your Business Capabilities with Overlays and Heatmaps.
The Overlays are created by capturing Service Qualities, for example, you could capture Business Fit, Technical Fit, ESG Rating and so on. At the same time, you can add heatmaps, such as disposition, lifecycle status, criticality and so on.
These are not generic, out of the box options, but ones that you can create that are specific to your organisation. As with all our views, these can be scoped and looked at for a future point in time.
We’re told this view is super useful when discussing how applications support the business as it can present the information that are key to them.
Find out more details on the Essential University here.
Application Landscape
Editor Builder
Customise your web based data capture forms to support specific roles or jobs.
The Essential Editors are web-based forms that provide an easy way for all users to maintain EA data in essential, with no knowledge of Essential or enterprise architecture needed. In addition, the editors are configurable, meaning that organisations can change them to suit their own specific needs – take out data they are not capturing, add data specific to them and, perhaps most importantly, break them up into different editors focused on a specific job or role.
Find out more details on the Essential University here.
Disposition Status
If you add 4 dispositions, you get a disposition matrix on the Business Capability Dashboard.
The application disposition quadrant displayed on the Business Capability Dashboard can show two different data points – a subjective status and a score. So, you can set a status, such as Tolerate, Invest, Migrate or Eliminate (if you use Gartner’s Time model – or you can add your own terms) and you can ask users to score the application against criteria you set. This could be a simple ‘Business Fit’ and ‘Technical Fit’, or you could break it down to a lower level, so business fit might comprise of ‘Usability’, ‘Response Time’ and ‘Availability’ whilst Technical Fit might comprise ‘Resource Availability’, ‘Documentation’, ‘Scalability’. The view then shows the Application on the grid set by the average of the scores, and the colour set by the status.
If you only have one or the other the view still works – it gives you the option and the control.
Find out more details on the Essential University here and here.
Application Footprint Comparison
Compare different organisations – invaluable for M&As and Divestments.
This view allows you to compare the applications used by two different parts of the organisation – really useful in M&As or divestments, or where you are trying to consolidate organisations that have been autonomous.
Find out more details on the Essential University here.
For more details contact your Account Manager if you are an existing client or contact us for a demo here