HOPEX IT Portfolio Management > Drawing up a Technology Inventory > Defining and Validating Technologies > Defining Technology Properties
Defining Technology Properties
To access technology properties:
1. In the list of repository technologies, select the required technology and click the Properties button of the edit area.
2. In the properties window, click the drop-down list to access the following pages:
• Characteristics
• Version and installation
• Application
• Cost
• Reports
• BDNA
Characteristics 
In this page you can specify:
• Identification of the technology:
• the Name of the technology
• the internal Code
• the Vendor
• The Company standard: this attribute indicates the organization policy regarding the usage of a technology or technologies of a vendor. It is specified by the Chief Technology Officer.
• a Comment.
• the Official Life Cycle of the technology, with its publication and support end dates.
*The end of support date can be imported from BDNA or specified manually.
See also: Technology Support Alert.
• Technology Type: IT service, operating system, platform, DBMS. A technology can be connected to one or to several technology types.
*New technology types can be created by the functional administrator only.
• Responsibility: this is the person or persons responsible for the technology:
• the management controller responsible for financial aspects of the technology
• the local correspondent who is the main referrer for the technology
*This business role is not associated with a specific desktop.
• Gantt Chart presenting the technology life cycle. This is the life cycle within the organization; it can differ from the official life cycle specified by the supplier.
For more information on the object life cycle and its Gantt chart, see Viewing Application Life (Gantt Chart).
For more information on the technology official life cycle, see "BDNA properties in HOPEX", page 22.
• associated Attachments.
Version 
Application 
This page allows you to connect the technology to existing applications. For each application you can indicate:
• Total expenses for the year
• Capital expenditure (CAPEX)
• Operating expenses (OPEX)
Cost 
In this page you can define costs linked to the technology. The definition of costs of a technology is the same as for an application. See Managing Application and Application System Costs.
An analysis report summarizes costs of the technology. See Costs Report.
Reports 
The Reports page accesses analysis reports available on the technology.
Costs Report
Summarizes technology costs, by cost nature and by year.
Gantt Chart
Displays technology life cycle steps. See Defining Technology Life.
Gantt Chart with Conflicts
This report presents possible conflicts between the technology life cycle and the life cycle of the applications that use it.
Rules Application
Displays modeling rules in cases where a rule is active.
Overview
Displays a summary of technology characteristics.
BDNA  
This page displays properties imported from BDNA. See Displaying BDNA properties in HOPEX.