Manage architectural artifacts

Architectural artifacts are created to describe a system, solution, or state of an enterprise. The goal of architectural artifacts in Enterprise Architecture is to enable enterprise architects to create and manage artifacts in their organization.

Sometimes you may rely on external sources to keep and maintain many of your enterprise architecture elements such as diagrams, reports, and other visualizations. The architectural artifacts feature makes it easy to associate these artifacts to the ServiceNow® objects such as business applications or business capabilities.

As an enterprise architect, you can use architectural artifacts to perform the following tasks:

• Review and approve architectural artifacts
• Track artifacts versions
• Relate architectural artifacts to categories that are configured to match the needs of the organization
• Associate your architectural artifacts to your organization's business capabilities, business applications, digital integrations, or digital interfaces.

The architectural artifacts feature extends the functionality of the ServiceNow® Document Management plugin (com.snc.platform_document_management) and can create a relationship with ServiceNow® objects: business applications, business capabilities, digital integrations, or digital interfaces.

• View all architectural artifacts
  You can view the list of all architectural artifacts in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace.
• Add or edit an architectural artifact from Portfolio page
  Create an architectural artifact to align it with your business requirements.
• Add a related entity to an architectural artifact
  Associate an architectural artifact to existing entities such as business capabilities, business applications, digital integrations, and digital interfaces. The association creates a relationship between the artifact and related entities.
• Add a role permission for an architectural artifact
  Role permissions refer to the access rights assigned to different roles to create, view, or edit architectural artifacts. These permissions enable only users having the authorized role to perform any actions on architectural artifacts.
• Add a user criteria permission for an architectural artifact
  User criteria permissions refer to the access rights assigned to different user groups that are created based on certain criteria such as department, group, or organization. For example, all HR business partners are part of the Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) group.
• Add a user permission for an architectural artifact
  User permissions refer to the access rights assigned to a specific user to create, view, or edit architectural artifacts. These permissions enable only the authorized users to perform any actions on architectural artifacts. You can create user permissions and associate them with architectural artifacts.
• Add a group permission for an architectural artifact
  Group permissions refer to the access rights assigned to different user groups to create, view, or edit architectural artifacts. These permissions enable only the authorized groups to perform any actions on architectural artifacts.