The Application Portfolio Management portal gives you an enterprise-wide applications
landscape view of the number of applications and other key metrics. As an enterprise architect
(EA), you can view and access all the APM modules from this portal.
You can navigate to the Application Portfolio Management portal page by clicking . The role required is sn_apm.apm_analyst.
The Application Portfolio Management portal consists of four sections. The sections provide a
quick access to view the portfolios of business capability, information, application,
technology, and create goals, demands, and programs.
Figure 1. Application Portfolio Management portal page
Business Portfolio
View the number of business capabilities defined by your organization that have been
assessed and are yet to be assessed, and the number of business applications that support
the capabilities but are at a major risk. Click Hierarchy Map to view
the capability map in a new tab that displays the business capabilities and
sub-capabilities in a hierarchy. Click Business Planning to navigate to the business planning portal.
Information Portfolio
Capture the information from the assets of your organization as information objects.
You can connect the information object to your business applications to have a portfolio
of application information, ready and accessible to use at any time. The entities in the
information portfolio are either configuration items or columns of tables. They are
structurally designed to relate to each other either by CMDB CI relationship or by
referencing the data columns of tables.
The numbers below each entity of Information Portfolio represent the following
data:
Data Domains: Total number of records in the Data Domain [sn_apm_data_domain]
table.
Information Objects: Total number of records in the Information Object
[cmdb_ci_information_object] table.
Database Catalogs: Total number of records in the Database Catalog
[cmdb_ci_db_catalog] table.
Unstructured DB Catalogs: Total number of records in the configuration item tables
such as:
configuration file (cmdb_ci_config_file)
file system (cmdb_ci_file_system)
exchange mail box (cmdb_ci_exchange_mailbox)
Note:
Your enterprise might have any number of database catalogs, but only the number of
database catalogs that are linked to the information objects, which in turn are
related to the business applications, are displayed as counts in each of the
information portfolio sections. Similarly, only those numbers of database instances
that are referenced in the database catalogs are summed up as database instances.
Click the Information Objects link to view the details of the
information objects that are related to the business applications in your enterprise.
See: Information Portfolio .
Note:
The information objects must be related to the business application for you to view
them in the Information Objects page that opens.
Application Portfolio
Track the applications that support your business capabilities and manage them
effectively to fulfill the goals of your organization. The portfolio provides a list of
applications with information such as their category, manufacturer, and type. Click
Applications to navigate to the list view of business applications in your organization.
Analyze your applications by category or family and group them the way you want them to be
in the application Landscape view. Click Analyze to navigate to the Group
Analysis page to analyze the applications and their scores.
Technology Portfolio
View the number of hardware models and software models that are linked to your business
applications. You can also get a count of the number of these models that are at high
risk. Click the Technology Portfolio link to go to the TPM timeline view and know the status of the hardware and software models life
cycle.
Opportunities & Solutions
View the number and click to view the list of goals, demands, and programs. Click any
goal, demand, or program in the list to update its details. Use the
Create link to directly create a goal, demand, or program.
Create a goal to track,
align, and report the progress of the work towards it. For example, a goal could be
set to reduce Capex or reduce the number of applications within a target date.Create a demand to
capture your strategic goal for the application.To create a demand from the
application menu, navigate to
Create a program
to meet the goals. APM takes you through a process to add targets and identify
opportunities.Note: You can view and create programs from the Program section only
when you activate PPM Standard (com.snc.financial_planning_pmo) plugin.
Notifications
View the results of desired and scripted audits , the number of hardware and software models that
face high and moderate risks, expiring on the current date and in the next 90 days, and
pending certification instances that are open and not 100% complete. Click the
notification to open the related task or the related data certification schedule instance
to view the record details.
Recent Activity
View your most recent activity of creating a goal, demand, or program for a fiscal
period.
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