Architecture Roadmaps

An Architecture Roadmap is an ordered sequence of initiatives that are required in order to make the transition from the current architecture baseline to the future target state. Roadmaps are an extremely common diagram for showing the lifecycle of applications, projects and other components within an organization. These are often created manually, and as a result, take up valuable resources that could be effectively utilized elsewhere.

Orbus has created a highly functional set of templates for visualizing any of the above using 'Start' and 'End' dates, which are collected against the entities, stored in a single central repository. The'Timeline' template can be combined with elements such as 'Application Status', which links it into the Application Rationalization domain of identifying core/non-core applications and allows colour coding or 'heatmaps' to be generated dynamically.

Application roadmap - 'Legacy training systems all retired by 2011, SharePoint introduced as document management system'

Generating roadmaps in iServer can be automated by synchronizing start/end, creation/retirement dates via iServer's data import functionality - data sources could be Excel spreadsheets and XML files which are stored in disparate locations. When dates change, the visualization updates automatically, saving on manual effort.