Integrations Inventory and Attributes

Applications are the most common entity type appearing on either side of an integration record. The Integrations Inventory and the Applications Inventory are mutually reinforcing: the Applications Inventory is authoritative for Application records and their attributes; the Integrations Inventory is authoritative for integration records and the data flows they govern. The connecting attributes are the Source Entity Semantic ID and Target Entity Semantic ID on the integration side — when Source Entity Type or Target Entity Type equals Application, those Semantic IDs reference Application records in the Applications Inventory.

The primary derived relationship is integration count per application — a Calculated attribute in the Applications Inventory that counts all integration records where the application appears as source or target. This count is the single most important integration governance metric for APM: it quantifies coupling, retirement complexity, and change risk at the application level. When this count is maintained automatically through the integration between the two inventories, APM has real-time visibility into the integration complexity of every application in the portfolio.

When the Integrations Inventory is well-governed and connected to the Applications Inventory, APM can answer questions that are impossible to answer otherwise: which applications are most deeply embedded in the integration fabric? Which applications have the fewest integrations and are the most viable retirement candidates? Which integrations connect two applications that are both on the rationalization list, requiring coordinated retirement planning? These questions drive investment decisions worth millions of dollars — and they are answered by the relationship between these two inventories.