Exploring the architecture analyzer
You can use the Architecture Analyzer in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace to visually explore and analyze the relationships between architectural entities.
The Architecture Analyzer is a lightweight exploration tool for rapid, on demand analysis. You can use it when you want to quickly analyze entity relationships and understand dependencies without the overhead of maintaining a versioned diagram.
The Architecture Analyzer provides you with an interactive exploration canvas to visualize relationships between architectural entities such as business applications, business capabilities, application services, and information objects. By mapping the upstream and downstream relationships, you can also assess the impact of architectural changes and perform high-level architecture analysis.
Explorations are auto-saved, enabling you to continue your analysis from where you last left off.
- Add architectural entities and visualize their relationships
- Add any supported architectural entity type to the canvas by selecting the entity class and searching for a specific record
- Expand analysis by adding upstream and downstream related records from any element on the canvas
- Tweak the canvas display according to your requirement by performing the following:
- To hide the left navigation pane and the Add to canvas boxes, select the toggle full-screen icon (
) - To hide just the left navigation pane, select the toggle sidebar icon (
) - To clear all entities from the canvas, select the Clear button (
) - To download the exploration canvas in image format, select the download as an image icon (
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- To hide the left navigation pane and the Add to canvas boxes, select the toggle full-screen icon (