Enterprise Modeling and Visualization in the EA Workspace
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Summary of Enterprise Modeling and Visualization in the EA Workspace
The Enterprise Modeling and Visualization functionality in EA Workspace enhances your ability to diagram and model the future state of your IT environment in relation to business objectives. This tool allows you to create diagrams of your application hierarchy and associate them with architectural artifacts, facilitating informed decision-making for stakeholders across your organization.
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Key Features
- Visual Representation: Provides clear diagrams that illustrate complex enterprise structures and relationships, aiding stakeholder comprehension.
- Effective Communication: Bridges the gap between technical and non-technical teams, facilitating collaboration.
- Improved Decision Making: Enables assessment of proposed changes and potential risks before implementation.
- Alignment with Business Goals: Ensures IT initiatives are strategically aligned with overarching business objectives.
- Change Management: Illustrates the impact of changes on the enterprise, promoting smooth transitions.
- Compliance and Governance: Supports adherence to regulatory requirements through structured management of architectural artifacts.
- Efficiency and Cost Reduction: Identifies redundancies and optimizes processes to enhance operational efficiency.
Key Outcomes
By using the Enterprise Modeling and Visualization tool, you can expect to create and manage diagrams for business capability maps and application hierarchies effectively. You will be able to update existing maps, add new capabilities or applications, and share diagrams with stakeholders while defining access levels. The approval process for diagrams ensures that only validated changes are committed to the database, promoting a structured approach to enterprise architecture management.
The Enterprise Modeling and Visualization functionality in EA Workspace helps you with diagramming and modeling capabilities, and enable you to model the future state of your IT and its relationship to the business landscape.
You can use the Enterprise Modeling and Visualization [com.snc.apm_modelling_tool] functionality in EA Workspace to create diagrams for your applications hierarchy and associate them with architectural artifacts. These diagrams enable decision makers to make informed decisions.
- Visual representation: The diagrams and models provide a visual representation of complex enterprise structures, processes, and relationships. This visual representation helps your stakeholders, including executives and IT to understand the complexities of the organization.
- Effective communication: Diagrams serve as a common language that bridges the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders. They enable effective communication and collaboration between different teams and departments within an organization.
- Improved decision making: The diagramming and modeling capabilities enable decision makers to make informed decisions. They can assess the impact of proposed changes, evaluate different scenarios, and identify potential risks before implementing strategies or projects.
- Alignment with business goals: Diagrams and models help you align your IT initiatives with overall business goals. They provide a holistic view of the business and confirm that IT 's investments are strategically aligned with business goals.
- Change management: The modeling capabilities facilitate change management by illustrating how changes impact the entire enterprise. This helps plan and execute transformations that run smoothly and with minimal disruption.
- Regulatory and governance compliance: Many regulatory agencies and standards organizations require documentation and adherence to architectural guidelines. Modeling helps you verify compliance and governance by providing a structured framework for managing architectural artifacts.
- Efficiency and cost reduction: By identifying redundancies, optimizing processes, and streamlining operations, modeling and diagramming can lead to cost reductions and improvements in operational efficiency.
Installing the Enterprise Modeling and Visualization application
You can activate the Enterprise Modeling and Visualization [com.snc.apm_modelling_tool] from the ServiceNow Store.
Working with diagrams
- Shapes: This section enables you to use different kinds of shapes to create a diagram. Available shapes are:
- General shapes
- Enterprise Architecture shapes
- ArchiMate® shapes (ArchiMate is a registered trademark of The Open Group)
- Version: This field enables you to view and open a different version of the diagram.
- Share: Use this option to share the diagram with your peers.
- Commit changes: Use this option to synchronize the diagram to the repository. This option is available only when the diagram is approved.
- Save as new version: Use this option to create a new version of the diagram within the same artifact.
- Duplicate: Use this option to duplicate an existing diagram and save it as a new artifact.
- Open side panel: Select a shape in the diagram to see this option. Use this option to open the selected object details in a side
panel.
If the shape is
connected to an existing ServiceNow element, the details are fetched from the database and shown in the side panel. Update the details as required. You can select the Full details link to open the full form.
- Add related records- Select a shape in the diagram to see this option. Use this option to fetch and add
the objects and their relationships with
reference to the selected object.
- More actions- Select the three dots menu to see the following options:
- Delete shape from canvas to remove the selected shape from the canvas.
- Add relation to add relationships with reference to the selected object.