Use the Business application form to add the applications that your organization uses based on their functions and the business process they fulfill. In APM, add any business application that is used to assess and track costs, usage, business value, functional fitment, and risks.

1. Navigate to Application Portfolio Management > Application Portfolio > All Business Applications.
2. Click New to add a new application or click the name of an existing application that you want to edit.
3. On the form, fill in fields.

   Table 1. Business Applications form

   Field	Description
   Name	Name of the business application.
   Number	Unique, auto-generated identification number with a configurable prefix for the business application record.
   Business process	Business process for which the application is used.
   Portfolio	Name of the portfolio to which the application belongs. This field appears when you activate PPM Standard (com.snc.financial_planning_pmo) plugin.
   Application type	Indicates whether the application is custom or commercial. Homegrown: Application that is built in-house. COTS: Application is a commercial application purchased from another company.
   Architecture type	Type of application architecture. Client Server: Application structure that divides tasks between the service providers and service requesters. N-Tier: A multi-layered architecture where presentation, processing, and data management exist as physically separate layers. Web-based: Applications accessed over a network connection. Other: Any other type of architecture. Platform Host: Hardware or software that hosts the business application. Platform Application: Application that runs on a platform and can be associated to a host. In this case, the business application relies on the platform for standard operations such as development tools, execution services, and data services.
   Platform Host	A hardware or a software that hosts the business application. This field is required if you select Platform Application value in Architecture type field.
   Install type	Type of install.
   Platform	Applications hosted by platform.
   Business Unit	Attach a business application to the business unit organizational structure.
   Department	Attach a business application to the departmental organizational structure.
   Status	Operational status of the application. Auditing is enabled and hence, whenever a user updates the value in this field, the Activities field in the Activities tab displays the update.
   Application scoring profile	The profile used to calculate the application score for strategy.
   Application category	The application purpose and function. Use this information to rationalize or consolidate applications.
   Application family	A set of related applications that have a common platform or vendor.
   Technology stack	Technology stack on which the application was built.
   User base	Number of users using the applications. Auditing is enabled and hence, whenever a user updates the record in this field, the Activities field in the Activities tab displays the update.
   Active user count	Number of active users out of the overall user base. Auditing is enabled for the field.
   Last change applied date	Date on which the application was last updated. Auditing is enabled for the field.
   Description	Unique description of the application.
   Contract
   Vendor	Vendor details of the application.
   Support vendor	Vendor who currently supports the application.
   Contract end date	Expiry date of the subscription contract or the support contract. Auditing is enabled for the field.
   Owners
   Portfolio manager	Owner of the portfolio, typically from IT. This field appears when you activate PPM Standard (com.snc.financial_planning_pmo) plugin.
   Business owner	Person who owns the application from the business side. Every application should have an assigned business owner.
   IT Application owner	Person who owns the application from the IT side. The business application must have an owner assigned to it. If you are designated as the IT Application owner, then you can view all the applications for which you are the owner in the My Applications menu.
   Last updated by	Person who last updated the application record.
   Supported by	User supporting the business application.
   Support group	User group supporting the business application.
   Compliance
   Business criticality	How critical the application is to the business. Auditing is enabled for the field.
   Emergency tier	Actions or plans executed for the application in an emergency situation.
   Data classification	Security level for the data in the application. This attribute determines which Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) policies are applicable to the application. Auditing is enabled for the field.
   Certified	Status of the application that it meets requirements or complies with the policies of your organization.

4. Click Submit or Update.
5. To view the roadmap of the business application and its related data, click View Application Roadmap button.
6. To get all available and significant information of a business application, click Application 360 button.
7. To know the application cost in the last period, manage application cost as percentage of total spend, determine its future trend, and provide a cost-effective business application, click Application TCO button. See Application TCO .
   Note:

   The link to Application TCO dashboard works when you use the preconfigured Business Application Costing cost model. The integration works when you activate Application Portfolio Management (com.snc.apm) plugin. This plugin activates Financial Management For APM (com.snc.financial_management_for_apm) plugin, which in turn activates Performance Analytics – Content Pack – Application Portfolio Management (com.snc.pa.apm) plugin.

8. To raise a demand for the business application, click Create Demand button. The Demand form that opens populates the related business application in the Business Applications field.
9. To retrieve software models associated to the business application, click Manage Technology Models button. It also retrieves the log of software models that the software models suggestion engine retrieved when the scheduled job was last executed.