Data Maintenance Module for Enterprise Architecture – EA

Data Maintenance Module for Enterprise Architecture Roles

The enterprise architect relies heavily on accurate and up-to-date data in order to make the right decisions for the companie’s future architecture. There are so many information objects that need to be collected and maintained about application, technology and data.

The DMM allows you to provide different user roles such as IT-Architect, Application Manager, Domain Architect, Solution Architect, EA Program Manager, IT Manager, IT Service Manager, Data Owner, Information System Manager with their specific views to maintain their data.

Within these views you can decide what information objects, or information properties should be read, updated or deleted. This can be done via our DMM View-Designer without any coding and within minutes!

Benefits

Using the DMM (Data Maintenance Module) to keep your vital Enterprise Architecture data up-to-date. By using DMM you will get the following benefits for your Enterprise Architecture (EA) Project:

Keep your EA artifacts up-to-date and reduce the risk in making the wrong decision because of outdated underlying architectural data
Secure your EA artifacts by assigning access rights on property level
Increase the acceptance of your EA Project
Reduced complexity of IT Infrastructure
Lower Software Development, support and maintenance costs
Flexibility to make, buy or out-source IT solutions
Reduce Risk overall in new investments and the cost of ownership
Increase portability of application
Easier upgrade and exchange of system components
Improved interopability and easier system and network management
Maximum return on investment in existing IT infrastructure

Of course the different benefits will depend on your EA-Goals and -objectives. But the main benefit is that you can keep your architectural data up-to-date and the user responsible for the maintenance of information has no rejections because of the simple user interface of DMM.

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Features

The DMM (Data Maintenance Module) is a web applications built on top of an extensible repository. You can either use our hosted DMM or you can install DMM within your own environment.

Generic DMM Features

Dynamically authorization through the use of authorization using Active Directory Groups (ADG), Local Groups (LG) to the DMM Power Levels
DMM recognizes your Enterprise Architecture meta model and you can start building your views immediately
The Multi Tennant Environment allow you better segregation of data and satisfies your security requirements
Email Notification on changes
Easy-to-use interface for the user who is responsible to maintain the information within your Enterprise Architecture environment
Browser independent Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, some mobile browsers are also supported
DMM can be used with any modelling notation you like to use, i.e. ArchiMate, TOGAF, COBiT, NAF, DoDAF, FEAF and many more.

Features of the DMM-View Designer

Designing a DMM-View with our intuitive web interface
For each view you can authorize the DMM-Editors and the DMM-Administrators via ADG or LG
Within a view you can enable all of your Enterprise Architecture artifacts to be the base object or to be a section object
Use your tagging objects to define that data scope for the information owner
Define the target audience in terms of which ADG, LG should be DMM-Editor, DMM-View Administrator or should get notification emails.
You have to define the type of Editor Assignment you want to work with, i.e. Person is Application Owner, Person is IT-Service Manger. This information is taken dynamically out of your meta model.
For each base object and section object you can define what type of access you want to grant. You can choose between Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) and you can choose to use the tagging for each specific object.
For each object, i.e Application, Interface, IT Building Block, Risks you can define which property you would like to make visible and editable for the information owner.
Make certain properties mandatory, change the label or add some help for the user to ease his task to maintain the EA information

Features for the DMM-Editor

Windows Authentication or Form authentication can be used to authenticate the user
The view selector allows switching between different responsibilities, i.e. the same person is Application Owner and IT-Service Manager
The object selector allows selecting different instances that the user is responsible to maintain
The one-page interface shows all objects, associated objects and properties at the same time
Field validation is supporting the user to deliver consistent data
User defined help provides the user with detailed instructions on how each property has be maintained
Mandatory fields gets highlighted in read only and in edit mode.
Auto Complete allows to associate new objects without leaving the current form
New objects can be created without leaving the current form
All changes are stored in your central Enterprise Architecture repository

DMM for COBiT

Below a couple of impressions when using COBiT for your Enterprise Architecture project. As an example we have chosen the role of an Performance Manager who is responsible for the IT Metrics in his enterprise.

DMM for TOGAF

Below a couple of impressions when using TOGAF for your Enterprise Architecture project. As an example we have chosen the role of an Service Owner who is responsible for specific Services in his country.

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