Create a digital integration

Create a digital integration in Application Portfolio Management, to create a connection between a consuming business application and a provider business application.

About this task

The digital integration is a design object used by the Enterprise Architects. It describes a connection between two business applications or between a business application and an external service (for example: AWS, Yahoo, a TimeZone Conversion service) that provides an interface (API) to interact with.

You can define why a connection is required between two data entities, over which Interfaces they should communicate, and provides a link to relevant design and architectural material. A Digital Integration underpins a business capability and provides business value.

Before you begin

Role required: sn_apm.apm_analyst

Procedure

1. Navigate to All > Application Portfolio Management > Application Portfolio > Digital Integrations.
2. Select New
3. On the Create Digital Integration form, fill in the fields.
   For a description of the field values, see Create digital integration form.
4. Select Submit.

Result

On the Digital Integrations page, a success message and the link to the newly created digital integration appear.

After submission of the form, within the CMDB platform, a CI relationship (Interfaces::Interfaced By) gets created between provider and subscriber business applications. In a case, where the digital interface has no relation to a business application (using Open or Public API), the digital integration is created between the subscriber business application and a standalone digital interface.