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Defining Technology Properties
To access technology properties:
*In the list of repository technologies, select the required technology and click the associated Properties button.
The Properties window displays the following pages.
*Some pages may be hidden by default. Click the button to display them.
Overview
The Overview page presents indicators on the technology:
• The Company Standard : indicates the organization policy regarding the use of technology. See Validating a Technology.
• Obsolescence Risk: its value is a function of the interval time between the current date and the technology's end-of-support date (or extended end-of-support date). The shorter the interval, the higher the risk. See below for how to calculate its value.
Calculation of obsolescence risk 
The following are taken into account in the calculation, in order of priority:
1. End-of-life date.
If the end-of-life date is “Indefinite”, then the obsolescence risk is “Very low”.
2. End-of-support dates
If there is no end-of-support date, extended end-of-support or end-of-life:
• If one of these dates is “Expired”, the obsolescence risk is “Very high”.
• If one of these dates is “Not Applicable”, the risk of obsolescence is “Very low”.
• Otherwise, the indicator value is “Unknown”.
3. The interval between the current date and the support end date :
 
Interval current date / end of support
Obsolescence risk level
Indicator Color
Less than 12 months
Very high
Between 12 and 24 months
High
Between 24 and 30 months
Medium
Between 30 and 36 months
Low
More than 36 months
Very Low
Unknown
Unknown
Gray
Characteristics
In the Characteristics page you can specifying:
• 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 use of a technology or technologies of a vendor.
• 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 IT-Pedia, or specified manually See Defining Technology Life.
See also: Support Alert Report.
• the Classification:
• Fulfilled Technology Capability
*A technology capability is the ability to deliver a technology service which is required by a technology artifact or an application.
• 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.
• associated Attachments.
Installation
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.
The “Costs Report” summarizes the costs of the technology.
Reports
The Reports page gives access to the analysis reports available on the technology.
*For detailed information on reports, see Generating Reports.
• Technology Standard Cost: summarizes technology costs, by cost nature and by year.
• Technology Overview: summarize the main characteristics of the technology.
• 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.
• Realization Graph Report: show which elements of the dictionary the technology implements.
BDNA
This page displays properties imported from BDNA. See Displaying BDNA properties in HOPEX.
IT-Pedia
This page displays properties imported from IT-Pedia. See Importing Technologies from IT-Pedia.