Architecture Review Checklist - Applications

Infrastructure Applications      Business Applications      Application Integration Approach

Recommended Questions for Infrastructure ("Enterprise Productivity") Applications

1.  Is there need for capabilities that are not provided through the enterprise's standard infrastructure application products? For example:

• Collaboration
  • Application sharing
  • Video conferencing
  • Calendaring
  • e-mail
• Workflow management
• Publishing / Word processing Applications
  • HTML
  • SGML & XML
  • Portable document format
  • Document processing - Proprietary format
  • Desktop publishing
• Spreadsheet Applications
• Presentation Applications
  • Business presentations
  • Image
  • Animation
  • Video
  • Sound
  • CBT
  • Web Browsers
• Data management applications
  • Database interface
  • Document Management
  • Product Data Management
  • Data Warehouses/Mart
• Program management Applications
  • Project Management
  • Program Visibility

2.  Describe the business requirements for enterprise infrastructure application capabilities that are not met by the standard products.

Recommended Questions for Business Applications

1.  Are any of the capabilities required provided by standard products supporting one or more Line-of-Business applications? For example:

• Business Acquisition applications
  • Sales & Marketing
• Engineering applications
  • Computer-aided design
  • Computer aided engineering
  • Mathematical & Statistics Analysis
• Supplier Management applications
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Customer Relationship Management
• Manufacturing applications
  • Enterprise Resource Planning Applications
  • Manufacturing Execution Systems
  • Manufacturing Quality
  • Manufacturing Process Engineering
  • Machine & Adaptive Control
• Customer Support applications
  • Airline Logistics Support
  • Maintenance Engineering
• Finance applications
• People applications
• Facilities applications
• Information Systems applications
  • Systems Engineering
  • Software Engineering
  • Web developer tools
  • Integrated Development Environments
  • Life Cycle Categories
  • Functional Categories
  • Specialty Categories
• Computer-aided manufacturing
• E-business enablement
• Business Process Engineering
  • Statistical Quality Control

2.       Describe the process requirements for business application capabilities that are not met by the standard products.

Recommended questions for Application Integration Approach

1.  What integration points (business process/activity, application, data, computing environment) are targeted by this architecture?
2.  What application integration techniques will be applied (common business objects [ORBs], standard data definitions [STEP, XML, etc], common user interface presentation/desktop)?

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