Introduction to HOPEX IT Architecture
HOPEX IT Architecture allows IT managers to formalize business needs in order to define the architecture of the information system that meets them, from the logical architecture to the technical infrastructure.
HOPEX IT Architecture offers facilities for different analysis perspectives:
Information System management and upgrading: a description of service and city planning architectures are two approaches that simplify IS upgrading by providing a frame of reference for planning your systems and analyzing your upgrading scenarios. Application mapping: a description of application architecture that offers a detailed view of information exchanges between applications, services, databases and organizational units. Application deployment: a description of the information system technical infrastructure to monitor application deployment on the different enterprise sites. The technical infrastructure takes account of the main hardware of your organization such as networks, servers, workstations, printers, firewalls and concentrators.The representation of resource architectures: a description of complex systems involving different types of IT resources.In addition to HOPEX IT Architecture, HOPEX IT Business Management allows organizations to manage their information system transformation by offering possibilities to define steps and to manage assessments for each of the steps.
HOPEX IT Architecture also offers a tool used to import configuration elements from CMDB (Configuration Management DataBase) and align them with modeling objects described in HOPEX IT Architecture. For more information, see the "CMDB Import" documentation.
The purpose of this guide is therefore to present how to make best use of these functionalities for the successful evolution of your information system.
For more details on the interface and functions of HOPEX in general, see: