Create a digital integration in Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management), to create a connection between a consuming business application and a provider business application.

About this task

The digital integration is a design object used by the Enterprise Architects. It describes a connection between two business applications or between a business application and an external service (for example: AWS, Yahoo, a TimeZone Conversion service) that provides an interface (API) to interact with.

You can define why a connection is required between two data entities, over which Interfaces they should communicate, and provides a link to relevant design and architectural material. A Digital Integration underpins a business capability and provides business value.

Before you begin

Important:

Starting with the Xanadu release, the legacy digital integrations module has been deprecated from Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management). However, if you’re an existing user of Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management), you can still use the legacy digital integrations module. If you’re a new activation user, the legacy digital integrations module isn’t available.

You can leverage the same features by using the Enterprise Architecture Workspace. To learn more, see Add or edit a digital integration in the EA Workspace.

If you have an Enterprise Architecture user role (sn_apm.apm_user), use the Business Application Life-cycle Management services to request, add, or retire a business application.

Role required: sn_apm.apm_analyst

Procedure

  1. Navigate to All > Enterprise Architecture > Application Portfolio > Digital Integrations.
  2. Select New
  3. On the Create Digital Integration form, fill in the fields.
    For a description of the field values, see Create digital integration form.
  4. Select Submit.

Result

On the Digital Integrations page, a success message and the link to the newly created digital integration appear.

After submission of the form, within the CMDB platform, a CI relationship (Interfaces::Interfaced By) gets created between provider and subscriber business applications. In a case, where the digital interface has no relation to a business application (using Open or Public API), the digital integration is created between the subscriber business application and a standalone digital interface.