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We are trying to setup this view (only geographic capabilities first) in our environment. We already know that, the following relationship data to be existed get the "Business Perspective" to get to work

Business Capabilities
Business Processes
Organisations
Application Capabilities
Application Services
App Service 2 App Capabilities
Applications
App Service 2 Apps
Application to User Orgs
Business Process 2 App Services

However we are not clear on the Business Units and Geography data associations,

Can some one throw lights on how to get those captured and imported to the application (I am using v3 of the import spec)

I am able to understand Business Process is tied Business Roles which will be used as Business Units.

Find attached screenshot

the following are the questions.

1. should we add group roles here?
2 or here?
3. should we select group business role or individual business rule? for our case we just need Business Units tagged to business capabilities

also further the geography mapping need some inputs.To be specific i could not decide which approach to choose for the above view.

should we add geography slot to business process or we should use the "Performing Organisation" of Physical Process to App and Service ?

Hi Rajaraman,

To help the team, can you run the dashboard checker please. If you installed it according to the Launchpad instructions then if you open your IT Asset Dashboard view and in the URL change
XSL=enterprise/core_el_it_asset_dashboard.xsl

to

XSL=enterprise/core_el_it_asset_dashboard_checker.xsl

then you will see a screen as attached.

Can you post a screenshot of the output please.

Thanks

John

Find attachment here. The data entry is still going on for certain data place holders.

Looking at the checker output, for the problem you are asking about:
1) You haven’t defined any sites, which is where the geographies are defined (Sites sheet)
2) You haven’t associated any orgs to sites. (Organisation to Sites sheet)
3) You haven’t associated any apps or tech to org users (Application to User Orgs and Tech Prods to User Orgs sheets)

Note: To get dashboard to work you need to make all those reds, green, including installing the EUP. If you follow the instructions in Launchpad carefully it does explain the process and each sheet, so you do not have to add any slots to get anything in Launchpad to work.

We’ve posted some ‘how to’ videos that walkthrough each Launchpad sheet in the Videos section

Thanks, I have another clarification.

IT Asset Dashboard->(All BUs) ->Business Perspective
Corporate Support-> Data Management -> Applications list (A)

Business Application Footprint (Application to Business Capability Analysis
Provides a graphical view of how applications support the business capabilities in scope for the enterprise)

Corporate Support-> Data Management ->Application Services->Applications list (B)

Both are two different set of data? or why the data is not matching in demo website?

This is because one is looking at the applications that could provide the capability (logical layer) and the other at the applications that are actually providing the service (physical).

The first looks at the logical business process supporting the capability and maps the application services to the process, i.e. all these apps 'could' support this process.

The second is those applications tied to a physical process (via a service), i.e. these apps 'do' support the process.

This separation is really important when you are looking at things like application rationalisation.

JohnM wrote: ↑26 Jul 2018, 12:26 Looking at the checker output, for the problem you are asking about:
1) You haven’t defined any sites, which is where the geographies are defined (Sites sheet)
2) You haven’t associated any orgs to sites. (Organisation to Sites sheet)
3) You haven’t associated any apps or tech to org users (Application to User Orgs and Tech Prods to User Orgs sheets)

Note: To get dashboard to work you need to make all those reds, green, including installing the EUP. If you follow the instructions in Launchpad carefully it does explain the process and each sheet, so you do not have to add any slots to get anything in Launchpad to work.

We’ve posted some ‘how to’ videos that walkthrough each Launchpad sheet in the Videos section

I could see the applications are mapped to organisations and sites.

But how the business capabilities are mapped? Is there a direct relationship between Business Capabilities, Application Capabilities and Technology Capabilities (Business Perspective, Application Perspective, Technology Perspective) to Sites/organisations? (because i dont find those mapping in the excel import sheet of Capabilities)

Also there is a column (Local/Regional/Global) in Business Capabilities. We see this is used in another view. Please clarify the usage of them as well.

Hi Rajaraman,

There is no direct link between capabilities and sites. Note that capabilities are conceptual and sites are physical so this would be incorrect. We link through other relationships, for example, the link between a business capability and a site will be via the process, either the location of the process or the organisation that performs the process. App could could also link via this route, ie where are applications used - so that would be via the process again, or they could link via the application deployment location. Tech caps would be linked via the technology deployment locations.

Local/Regional/Global against a business capability is a classification, you need to use this slot and search for the business operating model taxonomy.

Sarah

We figured out the relationships,


"Business Perspective" Section appears. but inside the box (Blue Box-has applications) there is an icon "i" which does not show any applications upon clicking it (no popup appears). Where are we missing.

Also inside "application perspective" both pie charts appearing with proper applications data. But the application capabilities not appearing.
Then we went to "application/core_al_app_ref_model.xsl" view there the application capabilities appearing (Whatever we classified as "Core"). What is missing?

To add a note we ran the checker. all appearing okay. except the following.

Application Capability Model
Application Capabilities tied to Top 0
Application Capabilities tied to Left 0
Application Capabilities tied to Middle

Hi Rajaraman,

You need to classify the applications as left, right and middle in this view - we are in the process of swapping the classifications and for now both are used in different views. So, as with the other you need a parent and child and you need to add a classification of left, right and middle (in addition to the core classification). There is a column to add this in app cap worksheet of the launchpad spreadsheet also.
Hope that helps

Sarah