Bubble chart view of application rationalization
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Summary of Bubble Chart View of Application Rationalization
The bubble chart in Application Rationalization provides an interactive visual tool for enterprise architects to assess and manage business applications based on various indicator scores. Available in ServiceNow's Enterprise Architecture Workspace version 2.2.0 and later, this chart helps position applications in quadrants to inform decisions such as investing in, sustaining, migrating, or retiring applications according to their alignment with business strategy.
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Key Features
- Interactive Quadrant Visualization: Applications are displayed as bubbles in quadrants defined by X and Y axes representing different metric categories.
- Customizable Indicators: Customers can create and attach custom application indicators to the default application profile to tailor the analysis. These indicators influence bubble size and scoring.
- Bubbles Representation: Each bubble represents a business application, sized according to selected indicator scores, colored by planned disposition values, and labeled for easy identification.
- Latest Fiscal Period Default: Scores reflect the most recent fiscal period by default, though filters allow changing fiscal periods and other views.
- Application Interactions: From each bubble’s context menu, users can create demands, set planned dispositions to track application future plans, and add or edit lifecycle data.
- Filtering and Limitations: The chart displays up to 100 bubbles at once; filters help manage this limit or switch to list views for larger datasets.
Practical Use and Benefits
- Analyze and Prioritize: Quickly assess application portfolios by multiple scores to understand strategic alignment and make rationalization decisions.
- Decision Support: Use quadrant placement and bubble attributes to decide whether to invest in, sustain, migrate, or retire applications.
- Demand Creation: Seamlessly generate demands directly from the chart for applications identified as requiring action.
- Lifecycle Management: Directly manage lifecycle data from the bubble chart to keep application information current and actionable.
Bubble charts are interactive graphs that position applications in different quadrants, based on their indicator scores. Based on the position of the business application in the quadrants, enterprise architects can take decisions to invest in, sustain, migrate, or retire the business applications.
Use the bubble chart to view indicator scores of business applications in the X and Y axes and specify the bubble sizes. You can use these scores to measure how your applications are aligned to your business strategy and then create demands for the applications.
You need Enterprise Architecture Workspace version 2.2.0 to view the Application Rationalization page.
- The created indicator must also be attached to the default application profile. For information on how to attach new profile indicators with a scoring profile, see Attach a profile indicator with an application scoring profile.
- If the created indicator isn’t displayed in the bubble size list, ensure that the indicator is active. For information on how to activate an indicator, see Activate or turn off an application or capability indicator.
Select the application rationalization icon (
) to view the bubble chart view of all business applications.
- X and Y axes: Each axis represents a metric category.
- Bubbles: Each labeled bubble represents a business application. Point to a bubble to view an assessable record score summary.
The bubble color is dependent on the planned disposition value that was already set for the business application. You can refer to the legend displayed on the bubble chart to see the significance of each color.
The bubbles are of different sizes, based on the indicator score values that you select.
All the indicator scores are displayed according to the latest fiscal period, by default. The latest fiscal period is derived from the apm_app_indicator_score list. The duration of a fiscal period is derived from the system property com.glide.fiscal_calendar.fiscal_unit. However, the fiscal period can be changed using the filter available on the Application Rationalization screen and other filters may also be applied.
You can perform the following by pointing to a bubble in the chart and then selecting the context menu:
- Create a demand for a business application.
- Set the planned disposition of a business application.
- Add business application lifecycle data.
The bubble chart displays up to only 100 bubbles representing business applications. If you have more than 100 bubbles, a message appears. Use the available filters to reduce the number of applications or view the data in the list view.