Using Sparx to rationalize your IT portfolio -APM use case involving Prolaborate

By Giuseppe Platania Principal Architect

Many IT leaders feel that, while their budget is growing, they cannot allocate enough resources toward innovation.

In this lecture we will show how the Sparx modeling platform can be used to identify the pain points of a portfolio, plan a road map and monitor it over time.

Session Recording

Questions and Answers

Are the beautiful dashboards that were shown created with the model repository on enterprise architect and the Prolaborate dashboard?

100% pure Sparx Enterprise Architect, PCS and Prolaborate. Best practices and value accelerators are what makes the difference

I have found cost apportionment to capabilities to be complex (many to many). Does your solution support this apportionment in any way?

Yes, it does. As discussed, the metamodel is only a baseline, to ensure fast tracking of the APM. It can be modified to express your exact situation

I see the EuroCom Model database is in SQL Express. Any reason for that?

To keep it a simple as possible, the system supports any major databases

Will you show some of the underlying models (i.e capability model) and explain how the aggregation is done? A typical capability model would have 3 levels. Are you linking application components to L3 and then rolling up?

Here you can see the EuroCom capability Model

What are the different source systems from which data can be imported for this kind of analysis?

The EuroCom example is maintained as a single repository. In real scenarios we use the integration platform.

Speaker Bio

Giuseppe Platania

Principal Architect

Giu is a leader in modeling with a passion for translating logical concepts into tangible deliverables.