Why can we not add Business Applications to Enterprise Portfolios in DPM?

[Bruce W]

In Digital Portfolio Management (DPM) you can create a personal portfolio that can include Business Applications, Services/Offerings, and Application Services.

But you cannot include Business Applications when creating an Enterprise Portfolio, built on Service Portfolio Management. 

Is the ability to add Business Applications to Enterprise Portfolios going to be addressed in a future release of SPM/DPM? If not, can it explained why they should be different?

I had hoped to create enterprise portfolio for IT management that they can share with their staff but it would not include the all important Business Applications.

Thanks, Bruce...

[Sandra Clendon]

Apologies - this only worked on my PDI.  When I tried it in our Dev instance, it only installed the enterprise_portfolio table, not the dpm_enterprise_portfolio table which is what reflects in the DPM workspace.

[caitlinmarkham]

Hi Sandra, 

You are correct that the Enterprise Portfolios feature requires you to choose a type - Service, Business Application, or Application service. The use case for Enterprise Portfolios is around creating an inventory and logical or hierarchical structure to organize services/apps and report on key metrics across those solutions to assess performance. Personal portfolios allow users to mix different types of solutions in the same portfolio, and we are currently working on how we can provide summarized data across those different solution types at the personal portfolio level. I hope this helps to provide context around how the different portfolio types are intended and designed. 

Thanks and appreciate any feedback,

Caitlin

[Sandra Clendon]

Thanks Caitlin.  Yes can definitely see the different use cases for the different types of portfolios.  However, our product teams oversee both products (business application portfolios) and services.  Each product manager and technical lead will have to go into two different places to see these different aspects.

The landing page will help with that (reflecting services and business applications they "own") and we will have to monitor how that works for them as we roll this out.