Define a Policy Framework with Hopex IT Architecture
A business policy is a directive whose purpose is to govern or to guide the enterprise.
A policy framework consists of a number of business policies. It is composed of sections and sub-sections that represent categories of business policies. Under these sections you can define the business policies, the assets constrained by the policies in question and their implementation.
For more details on Policy Frameworks, see
Hopex Data Governance guide.
You can import in your Hopex repository some Policy Frameworks.
The Policy Frameworks are provided by your administrator in a package. For more details, see “Importing a module in
Hopex” chapter in the
HOPEX Administration guide.
Defining a Business Policy with Hopex IT Architecture
A business policy is a directive whose purpose is to govern or to guide the enterprise.
Accessing Business Policies with Hopex IT Architecture
To access the list of Business Policies:
1. From the Governance navigation menu, select Policy Framework.
The Policy Framework tree appears.
2. Expand the folders to see Business Policies.
Creating a business policy
To create a Business Policy:
1. From the Governance navigation menu, select Policy Framework.
The Policy Framework tree appears.
2. Expand the folder of the Policy Frameworks that interests you.
3. Select the Policy Framework Section that interests you and click New > Business Policy.
The new Business Policy appears in the tree.
Connect a business policy to an application
To identify the Business Policies that your applications needs to comply with:
1. Open the Governance property page of the application that interests you.
2. In the Policy to comply with section, click Connect.
A window opens providing a tree of policy frameworks and the associated business policies.
3. Select the business policies that interest you and click Connect.
The selected business policies appear in the Policy to comply section.
Assessing application compliance with a business policy
The last compliance assessment result appears at the top of the application Governance property page.
Possible results are the following:
• Full Compliance: if all the business policies connected to the application are compliant.
• No Compliance: if all the business policies connected to the application are not compliant.
• Partial Compliance: if all the business policies connected to the application are assessed at different compliance levels.
To assess the compliance level of an application with a business policy:
1. Open the Governance property page of the application that interests you.
2. In the Policy to comply with section, select business policies you want assess.
3. In the Policy Compliance Assessment section, click Evaluate.
A Governance Assessment window opens providing a tree of policy frameworks and the associated business policies to be assessed.
4. Specify the Measure Date.
5. In the Compliance column, select the compliance level you wish to assign to the application.
6. Click OK.
The compliance level appears at the top of the property page.
Defining an Architecture Principle
An Architecture Principle is a general guideline that informs, supports and constrains the way in which an organization will design and construct architectures.
Accessing to Architecture Principles
To access the list of Architecture Principles:
1. From the Governance navigation menu, select Policy Framework.
The Policy Framework tree appears.
2. Expand the folders to see the list of Architecture Principle Categories.
An Architecture Principle Category enables a grouping of Architecture Principles for ease of management.
Creating an Architecture Principle
An Architecture Principle is owned by an Architecture Principle Category.
To create an Architecture Principle:
1. From the Governance navigation menu, select Policy Framework.
The Policy Framework tree appears.
2. Expand the folder of the Policy Frameworks that interests you.
3. Select the Architecture Principle Category that interests you and click New > Architecture Principle.
The new Architecture Principle appears in the tree.
Defining an architecture principle scope
To define the scope of an Architecture Principle:
1. Open the Characteristics property page of the architecture principle that interests you.
2. In the Scope section, click New.
A Creation of Regulatory Requirement window opens.
3. Select the Object Type that interests you, for example Application Deployment Architecture.
4. Select the Element Subject to Regulation and click Add.
A new fulfillment of architecture principle element is created.