Applications
software or program used by business users to perform business functions
Applications are a must for every business. They enable business functions, automate tasks, provide a platform for deploying processes, provide business intelligence and insight, and help businesses fulfill their needs. Your organization may have hundreds of applications in many different categories including but not limited to channel, core, business integration and data applications.
Applications are deployed on one or more Stacks.
Example of Application Landscape:
Application reference architecture provides a template solution for an application architecture for a particular domain. For example reference application architecture of banking industry provides a template for application types in that industry.
Following table contains a list of information about application:
Field
Type
Comments
Name
Text
Name of Application. Unique and Mandatory
Short Description
Text
Short account of salient aspects, characteristics, or features of Application
Long Description
Text
Detailed account of salient aspects, characteristics, or features of Application
Product Name
Text
Official Name of the Product from the vendor
Category Group
LOV
Main functional grouping the application belongs to. Examples are Channel applications, Core Applications
Category
LOV
Further category inside category group e.g. within Channel Category Group we can have Customer-facing or Employee-facing categories
Delivery Model
LOV
Describes how the application is delivered. e.g. On Site or Public Cloud Service
Type
LOV
Describes the how the application is sourced and configured e.g. Bespoke means internally developed, Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) are applications under commercial license, FOSS means Free-Open-Source-Software
Primary Stack Name
Dropdown
The primary stack on which this application is deployed. Typically the stack of production environment. Multiple stacks can be selected through Related Information
APIs to get application data in InnowayIT:
APIs to get application metadata in InnowayIT:
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