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Application Characteristics
To access characteristics that enable identification of an application:
*In the properties window of an application, select the Characteristics page.
The page presents the following characteristics.
Indicators on the application
Colored indicators highlight for the application:
• its Business Value: nesting level of the application in enterprise production.
• its Functional Support: support level of the application in enterprise process.
• its Technology Efficiency: assessment of evolution possibilities of the application from the techniques that support it.
*For more details on these three indicators, see Evaluating Application Criticality.
• its Technology compliance: attribute calculated on the basis of the "Company Standard" defined on all the technologies used by the application.
• its Obsolescence Risk: corresponds to the highest risk of the related technologies.
*See the Obsolesnce risk in the Characteristics of a technology.
Application identification
The identification includes:
• the Name
• the internal Code
• the Application type
• if it is an Application template: to be selected if the application is used to create other applications
• the Cloud Computing, which indicates how the application should be installed:
• On premises: the application is installed and runs on computers on the premises (in the building) of the company.
• Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS): the application is installed and runs on an external provider infrastructure (physical or virtual machines and other additional resources such as images in a virtual-machine image-library, raw (block) and file-based storage, firewalls, load balancers, IP addresses, virtual local area networks (VLANs), and software bundles).
• Platform as a Service (PAAS): the application is installed and runs on an external provider computing platform including operating system, programming language execution environment, database, and web server. Internal/external developers can develop and run their software solutions on a cloud platform.
• Software as a Service (SAAS): the application is designed, installed and runs by an external delivery partner. Some customization can be implemented during the design phase.
• a Comment.
Other characteristics
Other characteristics of an application:
• the Service Legal Agreement: displays the indicators that define the application quality level.
• Functional Scope of the application. See Defining Application Functional Scope.
• Responsibility: it relates to the person or persons responsible for the application. See Assigning an Application to Persons.
• Exchanges with other objects. See Specifying Data Exchanged With Other Applications.
• the Data processed by the application. See Defining the Data Used by an Application.
• Data Subjects' Rights & Notice Management.
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• the Risks associated with the application. See Specifying the Risks Associated with an Application.
• Gantt Chart of the application presenting the application lifeline. See Defining Application Life.
• associated Attachments. See Attaching Documents to an Application.