Integrations Inventory and Attributes - Financial attributes for the Integrations Inventory

Integrations Inventory and Attributes

Chapter 29. Financial attributes for the Integrations Inventory

Authored and Published By: The International Foundation for Information Technology (IF4IT), LLC

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Financial attributes are reserved for the cost and economic impact of each Integration, including build cost, run cost, support cost, remediation cost, and retirement cost. They help portfolio teams quantify the financial dimension of integration complexity and modernization decisions.

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Concept	Definition & Strategic Role
Cost of Integration	Financial attributes can capture the cost to build, operate, monitor, support, remediate, or retire an integration.
Portfolio Economics	The category supports APM and TPM analysis by linking integration complexity to rationalization cost, modernization investment, and total cost of ownership.

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Question: Why should financial attributes be considered for integrations?

Answer: Integration complexity drives real cost during operations, modernization, and application retirement. Financial attributes help make those costs visible before portfolio decisions underestimate integration remediation effort.

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Financial attributes capture the cost profile of each Integration — what it costs to build, license, and maintain annually.

Attribute Name	Maturity	Description and Notes
Annual Integration Cost	Walk	Description — The total annual cost to build, license, and maintain this integration, including middleware platform licensing allocation, engineering maintenance time, and monitoring tooling. Benefit(s) — Enables cost-per-integration analysis. High-cost integrations that carry low-criticality payloads are rationalization candidates. The aggregate of Annual Integration Cost across all integrations reveals the enterprise’s total integration investment. Source — Manual. Notes — An estimated allocation is more useful than no value. At Walk maturity, a rough order of magnitude (e.g., $50K–$100K/year) is sufficient for portfolio-level analysis.

Attribute Name

Maturity

Description and Notes

Annual Integration Cost

Walk

Description — The total annual cost to build, license, and maintain this integration, including middleware platform licensing allocation, engineering maintenance time, and monitoring tooling.

Benefit(s) — Enables cost-per-integration analysis. High-cost integrations that carry low-criticality payloads are rationalization candidates. The aggregate of Annual Integration Cost across all integrations reveals the enterprise’s total integration investment.

Source — Manual.

Notes — An estimated allocation is more useful than no value. At Walk maturity, a rough order of magnitude (e.g., $50K–$100K/year) is sufficient for portfolio-level analysis.

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