CI Class Manager- New CI Type

[Lisa23]

We are in the process of modeling/relating Business Applications, App Services etc. for a Process created within the Mulesoft and Kafka platforms.  We need a CI type such as "Integration Data Flow".  I don't see any CI types in the CI Class manager that appears to work in this scenario so I wanted to reach out to this group to see if anyone has a suggestion.  My interoperability architect did not agree with using the "Business Process table or using the Bot Process CI".   I suggested creating a new CI type “Integration Data Flow” CI in the Business Process table but at the same level as “Automation CI” and then the CI table would be “Integration Data Flow”.  However, my Interoperability Architect came back with this response: 

"I don't know the SNOW data model well enough to have an opinion.  Assume we adopt everything SNOW offers, is there an alternative that's closer to "data flow"?  I naturally resist because it's the wrong layer of TOGAF (the framework that is natural to my work).  In TOGAF, there was always a business process, data flow, and set of applications supporting that data flow.  It's not odd to treat RPA as an actor in the business process (but this probably isn't ideal).  However, a data flow is definitely a different layer with application dependencies (there never was an actor).  If it's better to map that to the business process layer in SNOW, so be it. "

Thank you for any guidance you can provide!

Lisa Stephens-Haskins

Moffitt Cancer Center

[Lisa23]

Hi Scott, 

Thank you for your input, we unfortunately do not have APM/Enterprise Architect module at time but do hope to purchase in the future. 

Kind regards,

Lisa Stephens-Haskins

Moffitt Cancer Center