Features offered by the EA Desktop
Business function
The Business menu is dedicated to strategic transformation.
Applications
The Applications menu displays:
• All the applications of the repository
• Application portfolios
Technologies
The Technologies menu lets you manage application-related technologies.
Data
The Data menu allows you to make an inventory of the conceptual and logical data exchanged within the application assets.
Tools
The Tools menu gives access to the following tools:
• Business Information Realization (Matrices and Realization Reports)
• Assessment and data call.
• Technopedia (BDNA technology types, BDNA vendors, BDNA software technologies)
Reports
The Reports menu provides a search tool for all report templates and saved reports.
For more details on the use of reports, see Generating Reports.For more information on data reports, see:Projects
The Projects menu is dedicated to transformation project management.
Inventories
The Inventories menu gives access to the following subjects, divided into several themes.
• Business Architecture theme, giving access to the following elements:
• Environments (enterprises)
• Business functions
A business function is a conceptual unit of the division of responsibilities in an enterprise. It is used to structure the management of information processing, energy, and equipment produced or used. Business functions define the skills and the functionalities necessary to the enterprise to fulfill its mission.• Business Partners
A business partner designates a third-party who is in relation with the enterprise within the framework of a given business architecture environment. Examples: private sector client, regulatory organization, supplier.• Capabilities theme, giving access to the following elements:
• Functionalities
• Technology Capabilities
• Hardware capabilities
For more information on technology and hardware capabilities, see Describing a Technology Capability Map with Hopex IT Architecture.• Software theme, giving access to the following elements:
• IT Services
An IT service is a software component of an application, that can't be deployed alone and that realizes a sub-set of the functionalities of this application either for end users of this application or inside the application (or another application). This includes batch programs.For more details on applications services, see Describing an IT Service.• Microservices
A microservice is a software component that can be deployed autonomously, but which does not directly provide an end user service. It can interact with other application services, applications or application systems. This is a deployable software component that uses software technologies. For example: an authentication service, a PDF file printing service.For more details on microservices, see Describing a Microservice with Hopex IT Architecture.• System processes
A system process is the executable representation of a process. the events of the workflow, the tasks to be carried out during the processing, the algorithmic elements used to specify the way in which the tasks follow each other, the information flows exchanged with the participants.For more details on system processes, see Describing System Processes.• Application Hierarchy, to view applications associated with the following object types: business line, process category, business capability, etc.
• Logical software architecture, to describe the elements contained in the information system logical architecture.
For more details on logical architecture, see Describing Logical Application Architecture.• Communication systems
A communication system helps to identify and describe the main integration processes using several Software Communication Chains as well as communication services.• Technologies theme, giving access to the following elements:
• Technologies Hierarchy, to view technologies associated with the following object types: technology capability, technology type, vendor, etc.
• Technology Stacks, which are groups of technologies.
• Vendors
• Services Catalogs theme, giving access to the following elements:
• Cloud services
See Using Cloud Services.• Business Services, to list the business services covered by applications.
• Technical Services, to list the technical services covered by applications.
• Hardware Service Catalogs
For more details on service catalogs, see Using service catalogs.• Infrastructure theme, giving access to the following:
• IT Infrastructures
• Resource Architectures
• Resource Configuration
• All Sketches, to access all the skectches of your repository.
A sketching diagram is a drawing that enables you to exchange with your coworkers without an issue of methodology or formalism.For more details on the use of sketches with Hopex IT Architecture, see Creating a Sketching diagram with Hopex IT Architecture.Governance
In the Governance menu you can define the regulations to which application architecture objects are subject.
In the properties of an application, the Governance page defines the constraints to which the application is subject. By default, this page is hidden, you can display it using the Show/Hide button of the application properties.Environment
The Environment menu gives access to the following themes:
• Containers, to access the features of library and environment management.
• Organization
• Business lines
A business line is a high level classification of main enterprise activities. It corresponds for example to major product segments or to distribution channels. It enables classification of enterprise processes, organizational units or applications that serve a specific product and/or specific market.• Process categories
A process category defines a group of processes. It is linked to a Process Map or higher level Process Category. It regroups several processes and/or other categorized elements (e.g. Value Streams, Applications). It serves as an intermediate categorization level in the process hierarchy, so as to provide a guided and progressive access to finer grained processes.• Processes
A process is a set of operations performed by org-units within a company or organization, to produce a result. It is depicted as a sequence of operations, controlled by events and conditions. In the BPMN notation, the process represents a sub-process from the organizational point of view.• Org-Units
An org-unit represents a person or a group of persons that intervenes in the enterprise business processes or information system. An org-unit can be internal or external to the enterprise. An internal org-unit is an organizational element of enterprise structure such as a management, department, or job function. It is defined at a level depending on the degree of detail to be provided on the organization (see org-unit type). Example: financial management, sales management, marketing department, account manager. An external org-unit is an external entity that exchanges flows with the enterprise. Example: customer, supplier, government office.• Sites
A site is a geographical location of an enterprise. Examples: Boston subsidiary, Seattle plant, and more generally the headquarters, subsidiaries, plants, warehouses, etc.• Common
• Report DataSets
A Report DataSet is a set of data extracted from the HOPEX repository and used as a data source in reports.For more information, see Platform - Common Features > Documentation > Generating Documentation > Managing Report DataSets.• Tags
A tag is a classifying description used to characterize objects.For more details on the use of tags, see Platform - Common Features > Collaboration Tools > Communicating in HOPEX.