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If I underastand your requirement correctly, you could consider using the EA_Class -> EA_SUpport -> Service_Delivery -> Managed_Service class to capture GMS and map all of the relevant Technology Products (or physical instances of them) to a GMS Managed Service instance using the ms_managed_tech ...

Hi Mike,

this capability is available in the Cloud and Docker editions of Essential and the documentation for how to set this up can be found here:

https://enterprise-architecture.org/uni ... -creation/

Thanks

Hi Paul,

the Outcome Categories are captured as Taxonomy Terms within the Taxonomy called "Outcome Categories". We will look to update the Essential University to make this information more easily accessible.

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Hi Paul,

this approach is to support different levels of granularity. That is, if one or more sites are specified for the performance of a process by an organisation, then those sites are used, but if no sites are defined at that level of detail, then it is assumed that the proces is performed at ...

Hu Paul,

just to confmr, we recommend using the Application Provider class for application components that are considered to be atomic in nature and cannot be broken down any further from a functional perspectve, e.g. custon-built micro-services, packaged application modules) which is why ...

Hi,

the ability to hide instances in editors is not currently supported, however it is certainly something we would like to explore. We will therefore discuss options internally and come back to you with our prferred approach for feedback.

Thanks

I believe this issue is occurring because there is an issue with your Target Environment setup. Target Environments are set up in the Import Utility to provide the list of Classes and Slots defined in Import Specs. In your case, you need to define a Target Environment that includes your custom Class ...

The vast majority of our users focus purely on the run-time technology products supporting Applications. As you suggest, there are occasions when build-time technologies are included inwhich case I believe that what is important is to have consistent and reasonably clear heuristics for when to ...

When you say different endpoints, I presume you mean different physical addresses. If so, then I would suggest that you actually model your SaaS Services as instances of Composite Application Providers with the D`elivery Model slot set to SaaS. Youi can then capture each of your DEV, QA and PROD ...

Hi Xiaoqi,

we are happy for you to go ahead and make your change and we will add it to our list of fixes in our next release.

Thanks for letting us know.

Hi Declan,

we do have an editor component that I believe should meet this specific requirement. You can add it to a Project Editor in the editor builder by doing the following:

1. From any configurable editor with Project as the anchor class, select any Section in the component tree on the left
2 ...

Hi Tshitshi,

we have not made any changes to the Import Utility recently that would impact functional behaviour. Can you confirm whether the Import Specification you are using is matching instances By Name or By ID?

Thanks,

Jason

Hello Xiaoqi,

you are correct, at present the Business Process Flow view does not show the start and end nodes. However, it does display Initiating Events and Raised Events which you can use in place of Start and End nodes respectively. In Protege, you can find them in the palette of components ...

Hi Henri,

the following digram provides an illustration of how we would typically model the deployment of an Application such as SAP ECC across multiple servers. My assumption is that your SAP ECC "Instances" are different configurations of the SAP ECC software and, as such, have differences ...

Thanks for bringing this to our attention.Looking at the location of the error, I presume that this is only causing an issue when accessing the editor from a Viewer menu.

The team have made the fix which will be available in our June monthly release.

Jason

Hi,

a current quirk in creating menu items for Editors is that, in the Target Report slot of the Report Menu Item instance, you have to select an Instance of Editor Section (see screenshot below) which will have been automatically created by the Editor Builder and will be named in the format of ...

Hi,

The links directly below are from the Essential University, and are to the meta-class definitions for Product Concept, Product Type and Product, including examples of how they should be applied. Which of these you decide to populate will depend on the questions that you are looking to answer ...

Hi,

this could be a url encoding issue. I believe that Postman automatically encodes the URL query string (escaping characters such as "^" and "@") before sending it. Do you know if your program is encoding the URL query string, before sending the request?

Thanks,

Jason

Hi,

a Viewer Builder is indeed something that we are already investigating as an approach to provide greater flexibility and accessibility for views, however we are yet to agree a target date for this capability. In the mean time, we have some clients who are using the Editor Builder, in ...

Hi,

the intention of the gb_group_actor was to allow modellers to relate Governance Body instances to the rest of the enterprise architecture in a manner that is consistent, e.g. capturing processes undertaken by a Governance Body. As you suggest, depending upon your operating model, this could ...

Hi Tshitshi,

thank you for the suggested change, which we completely understand the benefit of making. In fact, we have come very close in the past to making this exact change. The main reason for our hesitation was that we felt there was a danger that modellers may be tempted into proliferating ad ...

Hi,

we have been exploring extensions to the meta-model for supporting SLAs with a number of organisations, but are yet to formally introduce them. The examples that you have provided are consistent with use cases that we have been looking to support. Other use cases, include the ability to group ...

Hi,

In response to your questions:

- Are steps 1, 2, 3 correct to denote the APIs? If not then how I can do it correctly?
Your modelling approach looks to be correct
- What does ap_interface slot mean in "A::A1", "A::A2", "C::C1"? They are already interface themselves. When do we use this slot ...

Hi Gena,

the meta-model already allows an organisation to have 1...n parent organisations which, in theory, would support a matrix structure. However, the challenge, as you suggested, is in how to differentiate between the two organisational dimensions, e.g. management org structure vs governance ...

Hi Tshitshi,

this is actually more than a copy/paste issue as the represented_by_attribute should not exist within the Data Object Attribute class at all. Your proposed change is indeed the correct one, with your suggested doa_represented_by_attribute slot being the inverse of the existing ...

Hi Tshitshi,

at present, I am afraid that this is not possible directly in the Import Utility as defining the column as being a Simple Slot tells the Import Utility that the value is of type String. A possible approach could be to define a separate column in the spreadsheet that is mapped to a ...

Hi Tshitshi,

our apologies. We will make sure that it is included in the 6.16 release.

Thanks,

Jason

Hi Tshitshi,

we will review this request for inclusion in our next meta-model release. In principle, your request makes sense and, as you suggest is consistent with other mappings between Conceptual and Logical Design classes.

Regards,

Jason

Hi Alex,

Although we do support the ability to map Projects to the elements that they impact in the ways that you describe (via Strategic Plans), we do not currently support comparative scenario analysis for Projects at the moment. However, we are considering enhancing our "roadmap-enablement ...

Hi Rob,

we would recommend using our new Utility v3 API which will provide you with direct access to all slots of a Class, including any custom slots. The documentation for this API can be found here:

https://api.enterprise-architecture.org ... a21cf50fca

Hi,

we would typically document the names of WAR files using the technology_instance_given_name slot of the Application Software Instance that is deployed on a particular node. You can also optionally map the technology_instance_of slot of the Application Software Instance to a Technology Product ...

Hi Tudor,

the original intention was to use a Label classified for the Value Stage label slot in order to support multi-language against the slot. However, in hindsight, we would agree that this has added complexity for limited, if any, benefit as multi-language support can still be achieved by ...

Hi John,

can you confirm the name of the view that is displaying the default currency incorrectly?

Thanks,

Jason

Hi Tshitshi,

Support for dynamic, generic, querying of the Essential meta-model is on our roadmap but we're trying to make sure it is usable by all, not just people with technical knowledge of GraphQL. For us, the requirement is to provide a flexible way of allowing UI-driven and programmatic ...

Hi Tshitshi,

it would be great if you could privately send your Import Spec and sample spreadsheet so that we can review how your import is mapping to the meta-model.

Thanks,

Jason

Hi Tshitshi,

information_view_stakeholders is a legacy slot that should be defined as being 'deprecated', which it will be in the next release. It is still currently referenced by the Information View Summary view ( information/core_il_inf_object_summary.xsl ), but it will also be replaced by ...

Hi,

the diagram below describes how we believe that your scenario could be modelled using the out-of-the-box meta-model together with a couple of minor slot extensions (note: we already plan to add the stakeholder slot to EA_Relation ).

Contextual Regulatory Management.png

In summary, this ...

@Chris,

yer, we will update the Value Stream view to incorporate the new relationship between Value Stages and Business Capabilities.

Thanks,

Jason

Hi Karen/Dag,

we agree that it should be possible to relate Value Chains more directly to Business Capabilities. More specifically, we believe that it should be possible to describe the Business Capabilities that are required for a given Value Stage of a Value Stream. Therefore, in the next version ...

Hi James,

we believe that the issue may have been caused by a bug in the way we were escaping characters which should now be resolved in the latest version of Essential Viewer which can be found here.

https://github.com/essentialproject/essential_viewer

With this latest version, you should no ...

Hi James,

apologies for the delay. Just to let you know that we are investigating your issue and we have been able to replicate the problem that you are seeing. As soon as we have a solution, we will get back to you.

Thanks,

Jason

Hi,

we are aware of clients that have integrated with ServiceNow via our Utility REST API as well as BCM Remedy and Flexerra/Technopedia via our batch-based XML interface. Although we were not directly involved in their implementation, in the case of ServiceNow, clients have either used ServiceNow ...

Hi Rajaraman,

With regard to your questions:

a. Application to Required Components (Web, App, Browser, Framework, etc.)
The current version of Launchpad does not provide the ability to import the Technology Components required by an Application. However, a new version of Launchpad (version 5 ...

Hi,

thanks for the update. We're glad that you have been able to find a tactical solution. We have prioritised an update to address this issue and will keep you posted on when it will be released.

Regards,

Jason

Hi,

you are correct in that the REST APIs are not currently configured to support Cross Origin Requests. To date, our clients have been using the APIs for system to system integration, whereas I assume that you are looking to create a browser-based Application that will be accessing the APIs.

We ...

The slot used to capture the workflow of a process is "defining_business_process_flow", which is labelled "Defining Business Process Flow" in the instance editor

In your Technology Product Editor, can you confirm that you are not seeing the drop down button highlighted in red below on items in the Technology Features section of the General tab?

Add Tech Prod Standard.png

The Essential Meta-Model supports the ability to define what we call Standard Specifications. More specifically, for your requirements, Application Provider Standard Specification and Technology Product Standard Specification . These classes can be found under the EA Class -> EA Support -> Standards ...

Hi Rajaraman,

yes you can do this.

If you look at the Launchpad Import Specification, you will see example worksheets (what we typically call catalogue worksheets) that import instances based on a "ByID" match mode (see screenshot below).

ess_iu_match_by_id.png

When a column is defined as ...

Hi Rajaraman,

that's great to hear.

Jason

Hi Rajaraman,

the Source Information column is optional depending on the views you intend to populate. Nonetheless, from the screenshot that you have sent, what you have captured looks correct.

Regarding Apps 2 and 3, If they do not receive data from other systems, then they do not need to be ...

Hi Rajaraman,

the Data Provider Model requires both the Source Application (column T) and the Source Information (column U) in the App 2 Data worksheet. The Source Information column would typically be the main database of the Source Application (similar to the values you would have populated in ...

Hi Rajaraman,

both of these views are populated from the relationships created by the App 2 Data worksheet. Can you please confirm whether there any columns that you have not populated in that worksheet? This will help in understanding why the Data Provider Model is not displaying.

Regarding your ...

Hi Tshitshi,

apologies, this is indeed an oversight and will be resolved in the next meta-model release/update.

Thanks for letting us know.

Regards,

Jason

Yes, that's a great explanation Alex. I hope you won't mind the Essential Project team borrowing your analogy in the future

Thanks,

Jason

To answer your questions:

(1)Currently the screen shot "Applications Host by Country" shows hosted,accessed in different color because of different country.
In case of an application hosted and accessed by same country how the output look like do you have any sample.

At present, the view, does ...

Hi Julian,

we are about to release Launchpad v4 which includes a single worksheet for importing the data required to populate the Application Information Dependencies view. My colleague will contact you directly shortly with details of how you can get hold of the new materials, e.g. spreadsheet ...

Hi,

can you confirm the version of Essential Viewer that you are using? You should be able to see it in the bottom right corner of any view.

Thanks,

Jason

Hi Gunther,

We have re-tested the EUP that is provided on our web-site in Protege and it appears to be OK. It may be that your EUP became corrupted when you first downloaded it and so it may be worth downloading it again and then re-trying.

However, given that you re currently on EMM v6.1.1, in ...

Hi Tshitshi,

yes, that makes perfect sense. We will be sure to make that change in the next update to our meta-model and so feel free to make the change in your repository, knowing that it will be consistent with our baseline meta-model in the future.

Regards,

Jason

Hi Tshitshi,

for reasons of consistency, we believe it makes sense to allow multiple cardinality for the Application_Provider to Application_Family relationship and so we are happy to make that change to the meta-model.

However, given the description of your requirement, I would be interested in a ...

Hi,

I would certainly agree with your approach.As mentioned in my colleagues post, we have experience of performing KPI calculations dynamically in Essential Views based on low-level KPI values. However, this is not the most efficient, scalable or performant approach, as this entails performing any ...

Hi,

in order to extend the Launchpad spreadsheet to populate the original Technology Reference and Standards Model, view, you will need to do the following:

Add a column to the end of the Technology Capabilities worksheet (e.g. column F)
For each Technology Capability, in the new column, enter ...

Hi,

For Applications, we generally recommend using Application Capabilities for high level grouping (e.g. Case Management) of functionality and Application Services for the detail (Incident Management Services etc) that provides context, for example "When Organisation X performs Process Y, they use ...

Hi,

the diagram below illustrates the relationships that need to be traversed in order to capture a number of dependencies that exist for applications, including the ones you have listed. In all cases, none of the elements on the right are modelled using Application Providers and so they will not ...

Hi Rajaraman,

It is a reasonably straightforward task to assign Business Capabilities to Architecture States (e.g. Current State, Future State) in your repository. As shown in the diagram below.

Bus Cap Arch States.png

Here you can see that Business Capability 1, Business Capability 2 and ...

Hi Tshitshi,

here is the updated xsl which should now account for the two scenarios that you described. Using the test repository that you sent, you should see that the view only provides actors and applications where they have been associated with physical processes via Products. However, it will ...

Hi Tshitshi,

apologies for the delay in getting back to you on this. I agree with your assessment regarding the accuracy of the current Business Service Summary implementation. There is a way to achieve what you are looking to do (we have had to address this issue in a number of other views) and so ...

Hi Tomas,

up until now, we have always recommended that APIs were modelled using the Application Provider class. This was on the basis that they effectively represent logical collections of application functionality that happen to be accessible via a programmatic interface, as opposed to a user ...

We would suggest the best way to capture the kind of metrics that you describe as follows:

Create new instances of EA_Class / EA_Support / Utilities / Service_Quality_Measure / Service_Quality / Information_Service_Quality for each of the types of metric that you wish to capture against Data ...

Hi,

the following meta-model diagram and Protege screenshots should provide the required guidance to populate the change analysis reports. Please note that we are looking to provide an alternative approach to modelling and reporting against roadmaps in a future release and so you will see that a ...

Hi,

thanks for your responses to my questions.

The Import Utility has the capability to delete specific instances of a specified class, however, the Import Specification for the Essential LaunchPad is configured to be additive only. That is, it has been set up so that it will either update an ...

Hi,

just so that we can provide you with the correct advice, could you please provide clarification on the following:

Is your 'production' Target Environment a remote repository or one that you have directly uploaded to the Import Utility?
Do your new production/dev repositories already contain ...

Hi,

the model below describes the approach that we would recommend taking to modelling the mapping of your applications to server cluster infrastructure as you describe.

server cluster deployment.png

The key is to capture the server cluster as a single Technology Node which contains the 3 ...

Hi,

I have attached a repository containing an example of how we would model the dependencies that you have described. The steps taken were as follows:

Create the ‘Transaction Management’ Application Service with Application Functions ‘Deposit Transaction’ and ‘Withdraw Transaction’
Create the ...

Hi Julian,

It is possible to model what you are describing (we have done it before), but it is quite complex in terms of the relationships that need to be created. However, we recognise the importance of capturing these models (in particular for some AI and machine learning platforms with which we ...

Hi Julian,

just to clarify, are you looking to define a BUSINESS Use Case model or a SYSTEM Use Case model?

The reason for asking is that, typically, Business Use Cases would be system independent, describing the high level interactions between business actors (Group or Individual Business Roles ...

We do not currently support the definition of default values for Info/Data Object/Representation Attributes. So far, this has not been a requirement that we have come across, as our focus has mainly been on the strategy and architecture of the organisation and structure of enterprise data rather ...

Here is an updated version of the enterprise/core_el_group_actor_summary.xsl view file which we believe should address the issue. You will need to copy to the enterprise folder in your Essential Viewer web application within Tomcat. We will naturally also be including this fix in our next patch ...

Hi Tshitshi,

I believe the reason that you are seeing all 4 impacted elements is that you are mapping the Projects to both the overall Strategic Plans as well as the Plan 2 Element Relations. At present, the view interprets a mapping to a Strategic Plan to mean that a Project delivers all Plan 2 ...

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