We’ve released a new set of views to labs that help you manage the quality and completeness of data in your repository. This is a key requirement in understanding where there are gaps and issues with the data you’ve entered that will affect the accuracy of the views provided by Essential. You can see and play around with the views in the demo viewer under the Repository Data Management Portal, and if you want to apply them to your own repository you can download them from labs. The views are accurate, but the usability may need some tweaking – comments welcome and do let us know if you find any bugs.
The views are:
Data Completeness
Shows the completeness of slots in a given class. This is really useful if, for instance, you wanted to understand which processes support given business capabilities, you need to have completed the realises business capability slot in your processes – this view will quickly show the % completed for the class and for which processes it is not completed.
(Note – you need to switch off the tabs before you move to the next tab – blame the developer, I’m sure that’ll change when it leaves labs!)
Data Duplication Dashboard
Shows the level of duplication for the key classes across your repository. You can change the sensitivity to highlight similarities that may be duplicates. You can dive into the detail by clicking on the number of one of the key classes or by selecting a class from the Class Data Duplication view.
We have also released a Design Authority support view to labs. This allows project and change teams to record the applications and/or technology products they are using and the principles they are complying with, and issues a pass or waiver required result. This is designed to allow projects to self-govern where allowed to speed decisions and reduce unnecessary meeting time, you can see this in the Enterprise Architect Portal in the demo viewer.
Again, any suggestions or comments very welcome! These are in labs, so if you find bugs, please do let us know.