Integrations in CSDM Framework

Rebecca DeSant1
Tera Contributor

Where do you manage integrations in the CSDM framework?  As application services?  As information objects?  Or do you manage them as CIs?  I've looked at various documentation and community posts, but I haven't seen a clear answer. 

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Louis R Ronzitt
Tera Guru

Perhaps what Mark and Doron discuss in this presentation may help.   About 15:30 into the video.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tkoY-duwWA&t=1262s

 

 

In this video, Doron Orbach the Application Portfolio Management PM and Mark Bodman, CSDM and CMDB PM explore ServiceNow's evolution of APM and the new Enterprise Architecture Workspace. Doron provides a demo the new Workspace features, we discuss new features such as the Digital Interface and ...

To summarize what is in that video above is that it depends on what perspective you are looking at integrations from.
If you are interested in this from an operational perspective, it would be an Application Service. I'm not sure what relationships would be used for that but hopefully someone smarter can speak to that.
Looking at it from a Design perspective will require an (upcoming?) capability in APM to define it. 

Steve_Norman
Tera Contributor

When relating two Application Services, "Receives data from::Sends data to"

Espen1
Tera Contributor

We are planning to use Application Services, both "Receives data from::Sends data to" and «depends on» relations (Based on the criticality of the dependency).