Exploring Enterprise Architecture Workspace

The Enterprise Architecture Workspace is part of the Enterprise Architecture application. The workspace is a unified interface with multiple views that help you manage your portfolio efficiently. You can use these views to stay up to date with your tasks, insights, tasks that need attention, portfolio health, and dashboards.

Accessing the workspace

You can navigate to the Enterprise Architecture Workspace in the following two ways:

• If Next Experience is activated on your instance, select Workspaces then select Enterprise Architecture Workspace.
• If Next Experience isn’t activated on your instance, then on the left navigation bar, enter Enterprise Architecture Workspace. Select Workspace Home to open the Enterprise Architecture Workspace.

• Enterprise Architecture Workspace Overview
  The Enterprise Architecture Workspace has a consolidated user interface and is designed for different user roles.
• Business stakeholder role for Enterprise Architecture Workspace
  The Business Stakeholder (com.snc.business_stakeholder) plugin contains the business stakeholder role for Enterprise Architecture Workspace application. Users with this role can view or read records in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace.
• Viewing insights of your portfolio
  You can view the insights for your business portfolio, information portfolio, application portfolio, and technology portfolio.
• Managing requests, certifications, and assessments
  As an Enterprise Architect, you can manage all requests. You can view the status of the certifications, assessments, and technology portfolio audit information.
• Exploring dashboards in Enterprise Architecture Workspace
  You can use dashboards in Enterprise Architecture Workspace, to track and make informed decisions related to your organization's enterprise architecture landscape.
• Exploring data certification in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace
  Data certification is a governance process that ensures the accuracy, completeness, and reliability of critical data within an organization. It is essential for data integrity, compliance, decision-making, and risk reduction. Ensures accurate data for application portfolio decisions. Certified data strengthens enterprise modeling and visualization.
• Portfolio overview and health
  Get an overview of your profile and monitor your portfolio health.
• Exploring the Setup page in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace
  Using the Setup page in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace, as an Enterprise Architect, you can configure Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management) features within the EA Workspace.
• Exploring a business portfolio
  As an Enterprise Architect, view the capability hierarchy, manage capabilities, and assign business applications to the capabilities.
• Gantt view of TPM and TRM lifecycle timelines
  A Gantt chart in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace is a visual representation of the Technology Portfolio Management (TPM) and Technology Reference Model (TRM) timelines of business applications, and their associated application services like software products and hardware models.
• Rationalization of business applications
  As an Enterprise Architect, you can use application rationalization to evaluate your business applications.
• Exploring Portfolio list view
  As an Enterprise Architect, use the Portfolio list view in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace to manage your business architecture, application portfolio, technology portfolio, information portfolio of your organization and also manage your own entities.
• Exploring total cost of ownership (TCO) in Enterprise Architecture Workspace
  The Application Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) plugin helps Enterprise Architects to evaluate the cost of business applications and leverage the application costs to prioritize the application portfolio and align with the organization's business strategy.
• Exploring Technology Portfolio view
  As an Enterprise Architect, use the Technology Portfolio list view in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace to manage your Technology Portfolio Management (TPM) lifecycles and risk and your Technology Reference Model (TRM) catalog (software and hardware).
• Exploring Enterprise Modeling and Visualization in the EA Workspace
  Enterprise Modeling and Visualization in EA Workspace helps you with diagramming and modeling capabilities and enable you to model the future state of your IT and its relationship to the business landscape.
• Exploring digital integration management in Enterprise Architecture Workspace
  Exploring digital integration management in Enterprise Architecture Workspace.
• Exploring product capabilities
  A product capability is the specific feature that a business application or a Technology Reference Model (TRM) product provides to support business objectives. Product capabilities are used to assess how well a business application or TRM product aligns with strategic goals and operational needs.
• Open your Configurable Workspace experience in UI Builder task conkeyrefs
  Access your Configurable Workspace experience in UI Builder for editing.
• List of workspaces reference conkeyrefs
  List of all workspaces ServiceNow offers to target specific users and issues.
• Exploring the publishing center in Enterprise Architecture Workspace
  The Publishing Center is a centralized capability in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace. It helps you configure, manage, and track publishing activities from a single location.
• Exploring the architecture analyzer
  You can use the Architecture Analyzer in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace to visually explore and analyze the relationships between architectural entities.
• Exploring generating documents from diagrams
  Generating documents for a diagram helps you to transform modeling diagrams into governed, reusable architectural documents using predefined templates.

Related concepts

• Configuring Enterprise Architecture Workspace
• Managing Enterprise Architecture Workspace
• Integrating Enterprise Architecture Workspace with other applications

Related reference

• Tables installed with Enterprise Architecture Workspace
• Enterprise Architecture Workspace Overview

Related topics

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