Architecture management

Digital Architecture management ensures enterprise strategy and constraints are properly applied while designing and planning business application and solution rollout. It contains a repeatable set of activities needed to ensure applications / solutions are well architected.

Properly done Architecture management ensures your applications are secure by design, operationally efficient and cost optimized.

Architecture management requires deep technical competencies to effectively design, assess and roadmap architectural factors for your application.

Following Use cases will help you :

• Understand AppFaktors methodology and approach to architecture management.

• Deliver architecture design, assess and management capability which is critical to IT's success.

• Make architecture management easy with disciplined and effective architecture standards management, analysis and assessment practices.

This approach and roadmap instills confidence that you have your stakeholders’ needs in mind.

Digitize Application Architecture

Tasks

1. Create Digital Architecture
2. Create Application Architecture Model and Views
3. Create Data Flow Architecture Model and Views
4. Create Deployment Architecture Model and Views
5. Apply Standard Configurations
6. Apply Enterprise Architecture Constraints
7. Apply Enterprise Policies & Controls
8. Create / Apply Enterprise Architecture Requirements
9. Capture Key Decisions
10. Generate Architecture Scorecard
11. Get Architecture Approved
12. Create Roadmap and Share with Team
13. Track Roadmap

Benefits

• Central Architecture Repository

• Automate Security & Operations Risks Evaluation

• Architecture Roadmap Tracking

• Drift Analysis Automation

Conduct Security Assessment

Tasks

1. Request or Create Security Assessment
2. Create or Update Digital Architecture
3. Create Data Flow Architecture Model and Views
4. Evaluate Team Responses to Security Questionnaire
5. Evaluate Security Risks
6. Map Vulnerability Reports to Components
7. Review and Prioritize Risks
8. Create Risk Mitigation Plan
9. Publish Mitigation Roadmap
10. Publish Roadmap to Jira
11. Track Mitigation Roadmap Items

Benefits

• Automated Threat Modeling

• Assessment Workflow

• Risk Mitigation Planning & Roadmap

• Risk Mitigation Tracking

Conduct Well Architected Assessment

Tasks

1. Create Well Architected Assessment
2. Create Digital Architecture
3. Create Deployment Architecture Model and Views
4. Evaluate Team Responses to WAF Questionnaire
5. Evaluate Risks
6. Provide Recommendations
7. Review and Prioritize Recommendations
8. Publish Recommendations to Roadmap
9. Publish Roadmap to Jira
10. Track Assessment Roadmap Items

Benefits

• Customizable WAF Questionnaires with SME recommendations

• WAF Assessment Workflow

• Architecture Recommendations

• Recommendations Tracking

Generate & Track Architecture Roadmap

Tasks

1. Import deployment records from ServiceNow or Cloud
2. Create Deployment Architecture Model and Views
3. Evaluate Operational Risks
4. Review Risks and Provide Recommendations
5. Identify Gaps in Deployment Record
6. Fix Deployment Architecture
7. Prioritize Recommendations
8. Push changes to ServiceNow
9. Publish Recommendations to Roadmap
10. Publish Roadmap to ServiceNow Agile 2.0 Project
11. Optionally Publish Roadmap to Jira

Benefits

• ServiceNow CSDM & ITSM Integration

• Operational Risks Evaluation

• Risk Mitigation Planning & Roadmap

• Improve CSDM Quality