Digital integration form in EA Workspace

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Use the digital integration form to update the digital integration between two business applications and between a business application and an external company.

Field

Description

Name

Unique and meaningful name of the digital integration.

Number

Number of the digital integration. This field is automatically generated with the DINTG prefix and can’t be edited.

Provider Digital Interface

Name of the digital interface. Because a digital integration between two business applications or services uses a digital interface (API), you must select an interface related to the provider business application or service. This field is automatically generated and can’t be edited.

Provider Business Application

Name of the business application that provides the digital interface and enables to consume or ingest data. Changes, ownership, and responsibilities of the interface are often connected to the provider.Note: Being a provider or subscriber business application doesn’t refer to the data flow direction (incoming, outgoing, bidirectional). The data flow direction is managed by the Data Flow Direction attribute.

This field is automatically generated and can’t be edited.

Subscriber Digital Interface

Name of the digital interface that subscribes for the integration.

Subscriber Business Application

Name of the business application that uses the provided interface to consume, exchange, or ingest data to support a business capability. The subscriber business application is affected by the changes or an outage face connection or data loss.Note: Being a provider or subscriber business application doesn’t refer to the data flow direction (incoming, outgoing, bidirectional). The data flow direction is managed by the Data Flow Direction attribute.

Subscriber company

Reference to the (external) company subscribing to this integration.

Type

Type of the integration. Use the following options:

  • Data Integration: Use this option when the integration must mainly focus on the exchange of data such as users, groups, locations, configuration items, and departments.
  • Process Integration: Use this option when the integration is about an interaction of transactional data to support a specific process.
  • User interface Integration: Use this option when the integration opens a connection with another application and sends app data via a URL to query the application.

Subtype

Subtype of the integration.This field appears only when Data Integration is selected from the Type field. Use the following options:

  • Process configuration
  • Foundation data
  • Configuration items
  • Events
  • Reporting
  • Sys log

Version

Version of the integration. You can apply a practice of designing, planning, and managing changes to an Integration. You can describe the different changes and capabilities according to version in the Description field. This field helps Application Owners and Architects to look up which version of an integration is in use. This also helps to decide whether to change the life cycle.

Life Cycle Stage

Life cycle stage of the integration. Helps to track the life cycles for products, assets, contracts, CIs, locations, and other objects. Using the standard CSDM life-cycle values helps you to track objects through their transitions over time. Reporting can therefore accurately reflect the actual states of CIs: usage, availability, end of support, and so on.

Life Cycle Stage Status

Life cycle stage status of the integration. The state transition of a Digital Integration guides you through the different stages of its life cycle. A life-cycle state is the combination life-cycle stage and life-cycle status of a Digital Integration during the life cycle.

Business Unit

Name of the business unit that the integration belongs to.

Description

Description of the digital integration. Explain why the integration is being created and what business value it adds.

Field

Description

Data flow direction

Direction of the data flow in the integration. Use the following options:

  • Outgoing: Provider to Subscriber: Data flow from the Provider business application to the Subscriber business application.
  • Incoming: Subscriber to Provider: Data flow from the Subscriber business application to the Provider business application.
  • Bidirectional: Flow of data in both directions: Data flows in both the directions between the Provider and Subscriber business applications.

Initiating application

Name of the application, which initiates the data flow. It can be a Provider or a Subscriber business application.

Trigger

How to trigger the integration.Use the following options:

  • Manual
  • Scheduled
  • Process Driven
  • Event

Interval

Frequency to trigger the integration.Options for the interval are as follows:

  • Seconds
  • Minutes
  • Hours
  • Days
  • Weeks
  • Months
  • Quarters
  • Years
  • On Demand
  • Real Time.

Response

Type of the response received by the subscriber. Use the following options:

  • Synchronous
  • Asynchronous

Interaction type

Type of the interaction between the provider business application and the subscriber business application. Use the following options:

  • Guaranteed Message
  • Pub-Sub
  • Pull
  • Push

Middleware

Name of the middleware used in the integration.

Field

Description

Criticality

Level of the business impact criticality. Use the following options:- Low

  • Medium
  • High
  • Critical

Confidentiality

Confidentiality level of the integration. Use the following options:- Low

  • Medium
  • High
  • Critical

Integrity

Integrity level of the integration. Use the following options:- Low

  • Medium
  • High
  • Critical

Availability

Availability of the integration. Use the following options:- Low

  • Medium
  • High
  • Critical
|Field|Description| |-----|-----------| |Business owner|The owner of the business function who owns the digital integration. It can be the same person who owns the parent subscriber business application.| |IT owner|The owner within the IT organization who owns the digital integration. It can be the same person who owns the parent subscriber business application.| |Supported by|Name of the Subject Matter Expert \(SME\) or individual who provides support to the digital interface.| |Support group|Name of the group that provides support to the digital interface.|
Field Description
Work notes Comments about the integration.

Parent Topic:Form field information for Enterprise Architecture Workspace

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