Designate People Responsible for Applications
You can assign applications to persons who perform the following business roles:
• Application Owner
• Financial Controller
• IT Owner
• Business User
Defining a manager for an application
To assign an application manager, for example a business manager:
1. Display the properties of the application.
See also Accessing Application Properties.2. Click Characteristics.
3. Expand the Responsibilities section.
4. Click the Business Manager tab.
5. Click Connect.
The query dialog box appears.
6. Find and select the person concerned.
7. Click Connect.
Designated managers may be asked to complete the information on the applications for which they are responsible. For more details, see Collecting Data for a Set of Applications.
View applications without owners
The role of the application owner is to specify the characteristics of the applications for which he or she is responsible, and to update them regularly.
On the Enterprise Architecture desktop home page, an indicator shows the list of applications without an owner. You can display this list and designate an owner for each application.
To designate the owner of an application:
1. Click the Home page.
2. Click the Applications without owner indicator.
The list of applications concerned appears.
3. For each application, in the associated Application Owners column, select the owner((s).
See also Scope Indicators.