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Hello,

We are currently utilising the Application Families class to group applications in our landscape by Enterprise area. However, we would like to further refine this by defining the Ecosystems each application operates within, for example, Payment Systems, Data & Analytics, or Finance Systems.
Would there be another area within the class tree that could help us achieve this, outside of the existing Application Family class structure?

The ideal way to do this would be to capture your Application Capabilities, map those to Application Services and map the services to Applications. Your capabilities would be something like Payment Management, Data & Analytics, Finance Management.

Alternatively, you could create taxonomies and classify the applications with the taxonomy terms, but you would have to update the views to pick those up.

The other option, our least favourite but a quick workaround, is to create a new Enumeration class and then extend the Application_Provider class by adding a slot that points to that enumeration. The benefit is that the filter framework will automatically pick this up, so any filterable views will be able to be filtered by your new data, and the values will appear in the application catalogue (it will be in the visibility button) so you won't need to do any dev as it is dynamic.

Hope that helps