Integrations Inventory and Attributes

Every integration record carries a Source Environment and Target Environment attribute that identifies the IT operating environments in which the source and target entities reside. The Environments Inventory (not yet published — refer to the IF4IT Enterprise Inventory Management Best Practices document) will govern the formal taxonomy of IT operating environments to which these values are mapped.

The relationship is consumption: the Integrations Inventory consumes environment definitions to formally classify its source and target environments. Until the Environments Inventory is published, environment values are documented using the standard value set (Development, Systems Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Production, Disaster Recovery, External). When published, Source Environment and Target Environment will carry formal Environment Semantic ID references.

When established, this relationship enables cross-environment governance at enterprise scale. The complete set of cross-environment integrations — including Production-to-non-Production and External-facing flows — is queryable from either inventory. The Environments Inventory can report on which environments are connected to which other environments through governed integration flows, and what data sensitivity classifications those flows carry.