Artifact: Application Portfolio Catalog
Description
Main Description

The purpose of this catalog is to identify and maintain a list of all the applications in the enterprise. This list helps to define the horizontal scope of change initiatives that may impact particular kinds of applications. An agreed Application Portfolio allows a standard set of applications to be defined and governed.

The Application Portfolio catalog provides a foundation on which to base the remaining matrices and diagrams. It is typically the start point of the Application Architecture phase.

Existing application registries and repositories - such as SAP's Solution Manager and System Landscape Directory products - also provide input into this catalog from a baseline and target perspective.

The Application Portfolio catalog contains the following metamodel entities:

  • Information System Service
  • Logical Application Component
  • Physical Application Component