Application Services as a Software to track license, contract etc.

[Community Alums]

We have a requirement wherein Application Services(Web Application) needs to have license, contracts to be tracked against it just like a software.

We need to have a single dashboard where in if we relate this application services to Business Application and when we select business application details about the license, contract of web application would populate along with related servers and other software's installed in each server populates. This is for higher level management dashboard.

We are able to populate related servers along with software via CI relationship, but not able to pull license information which would in SAM module.

Any suggestion on how this needs to be designed? 

[Mathew Hillyard]

HI @Community Alums 

If you have Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management) then with the exception of the Contract information this would typically be something that the Technology Portfolio can show: Business Capability > Business Application > Application Service > Hardware and Software Lifecycles.

Contract Management is usually something you could choose to relate to assets via the Asset Covered many-to-many table, but in theory there is nothing stopping you from linking Contracts to Business Applications, but this information would not be visible within the Technology Portfolio. You could create a custom dashboard, but to view a similar set of data you may have to join the necessary tables together in a Database View to obtain the necessary data to support the dashboard.

I hope this helps!
Mat

[Community Alums]

Hi Mat,

Thanks for the reply, we tried the model ID field in Business Application form from which we can relate application model which in turn can be related to a software model from where we can pull license, contract and lifecycle information.