Technology Product Summary

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Tech Product Summary

The technology product summary is a tabbed summary of everything we know about technology products. You will see basic product details and key information, note the lifecycles are based on either lifecycle models, if you have captured those, or the enumerations that are against the class themselves if you haven’t.  

The technology capabilities reflect the capabilities that are supported by this technology product via the technology components the product provides.  

The tabs will only appear if there is data captured. 

The stakeholders tab is populated via the stakeholder slot on the technology product 

Technology functions are captured via the provided technology functions slot.

Supported applications and business process are derived from the use of the technology in an application, so when defining the technology architecture for an application that includes this product the application will appear against the product, and any process is associated with the application will appear in the processes tab. 

Information stores are derived from the hardware instances where this technology provider is deployed, via the technology instances slot on the technology product class. So, hardware instance holds the instances this technology is deployed to, and they can have a dependency to a database or information store. To model this, you capture the hardware instance class on which you would have a dependent technology instance that would be an information store instance that holds the information store 

The technology architectures are derived from the application deployments on the technology architectures associated with those applications, so if a technology appears in an application deployment then it will appear in this tab. In Essential Cloud and Docker, you can use the application technology editor to model these relationships, in Open Source you need to use the graphical editor – best route is Application Deployment [slot: Application Deployment Technical Architecture] > Technology Product Build [slot: Technology Product Architecture] and create the Technology Build Architecture. 

The costs associated with the technology product comprise a number of components that may be annual, monthly, quarterly, or ad hoc for each cost. Each component can have a defined period and type, and the summary will provide an overview of these components. 

The strategic plans are based on any plans that contain actions to modify this technology. Therefore, a plan may include a plan to element relationship element, where the element is this technology product, with a specific action to be performed on it. 

The documentation tab will use the external links slot to populate any values. 

Technology product summary map

Updated 30 January 2025

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