Applications Inventory and Attributes

The Applications Inventory connects to the Integrations Inventory through the Integration Summary attribute category. Every active integration involving this application has a record in the Integrations Inventory where this application’s Semantic Identifier appears as either the Source Entity Identifier or the Target Entity Identifier. The Integration Summary attributes in this inventory — Total Integration Count, Inbound Count, Outbound Count, Integration Criticality Rating, and Key Dependencies — are all calculated or derived from those Integrations Inventory records. No manual entry is required or appropriate for any Integration Summary attribute.

The Applications Inventory connects to the Capabilities Inventory through the Business Capability Alignment attribute. Each value in that multi-value attribute references a record in the Capabilities Inventory, and the Capabilities Inventory in turn derives its Application Support Count from the count of Applications Inventory records that reference each capability. This bidirectional relationship makes capability-to-application and application-to-capability traversal possible in both directions through the Enterprise Model.

The Applications Inventory connects to the Technologies Inventory through the Technology Profile attribute. Each technology named in an application’s Technology Profile seeds or references a Technologies Inventory record. The aggregate of all Technology Profile values across all application records is one of the two primary inputs to the Technologies Inventory — enabling the Technologies Inventory to be reverse-engineered from the Applications Inventory rather than built from scratch through independent data collection.

The Applications Inventory connects to the Environments Inventory through the Deployment Environments attribute. Each environment in which an application is deployed seeds or references an Environments Inventory record. For the complete governance model and attribute specification for the Environments Inventory, refer to the IF4IT Environments Inventory and Attributes document and the IF4IT IT Operating Environments Best Practices document.