Exploring Enterprise Architecture Workspace

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title: Exploring Enterprise Architecture Workspace
description: The Enterprise Architecture Workspace is part of the Enterprise Architecture application. The workspace is a unified interface with multiple views that help you manage your portfolio efficiently. You can use these views to stay up to date with your tasks, insights, tasks that need attention, portfolio health, and dashboards.
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topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
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breadcrumb: [Enterprise Architecture Workspace, Enterprise Architecture]
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# Exploring Enterprise Architecture Workspace

The Enterprise Architecture Workspace is part of the Enterprise Architecture application. The workspace is a unified interface with multiple views that help you manage your portfolio efficiently. You can use these views to stay up to date with your tasks, insights, tasks that need attention, portfolio health, and dashboards.

## Accessing the workspace

You can navigate to the Enterprise Architecture Workspace in the following two ways:

-   If Next Experience is activated on your instance, select **Workspaces** then select **Enterprise Architecture Workspace**.
-   If Next Experience isn’t activated on your instance, then on the left navigation bar, enter `Enterprise Architecture Workspace`. Select **Workspace Home** to open the Enterprise Architecture Workspace.

-   **[Enterprise Architecture Workspace user interface](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-overview.md)**  
The Enterprise Architecture Workspace provides a consolidated user interface with role-based page views for analysts, architects, administrators, and users.
-   **[Exploring Enterprise Architecture query agent](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/ea-qna-overview.md)**  
The Enterprise Architecture query agent answers natural language questions about your enterprise architecture portfolio, returning AI-generated answers grounded into their Enterprise Architecture data.
-   **[Elaborate or shorten content in form fields](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/elaborate-or-shorten-content-form-fields.md)**  
Elaborate or shorten text in the description or reasoning fields in forms using ServiceNow Otto in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace. You can also use prompts to generate content for the **Reasoning** field found in **Planned Disposition** section of a business application form.
-   **[Viewing insights of your portfolio](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-insights.md)**  
You can view the insights for your business portfolio, information portfolio, application portfolio, and technology portfolio.
-   **[Managing requests, certifications, and assessments](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/manage-requests-certs-assessments.md)**  
As an Enterprise Architect, you can manage all requests. You can view the status of the certifications, assessments, and technology portfolio audit information.
-   **[Exploring dashboards in Enterprise Architecture Workspace](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-exploring-dashboards-in-ea-workspace.md)**  
You can use dashboards in Enterprise Architecture Workspace, to track and make informed decisions related to your organization's enterprise architecture landscape.
-   **[Exploring data certification in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-explore-data-cert.md)**  
Data certification is a governance process that ensures the accuracy, completeness, and reliability of critical data within an organization. It is essential for data integrity, compliance, decision-making, and risk reduction. Ensures accurate data for application portfolio decisions. Certified data strengthens enterprise modeling and visualization.
-   **[Portfolio overview and health](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/monitor-portfolio-overview-health.md)**  
Get an overview of your profile and monitor your portfolio health.
-   **[Exploring the Setup page in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-setup.md)**  
Using the Setup page in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace, as an Enterprise Architect, you can configure Enterprise Architecture \(formerly Application Portfolio Management\) features within the EA Workspace.
-   **[Exploring a business portfolio](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/manage-business-portfolio.md)**  
As an Enterprise Architect, view the capability hierarchy, manage capabilities, and assign business applications to the capabilities.
-   **[Gantt view of TLM and TRM lifecycle timelines](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-gantt-view-of-tpm-and-trm-lifecycle-timelines.md)**  
A Gantt chart in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace displays TLM and TRM timelines for business applications and their associated application services.
-   **[Rationalization of business applications](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-rationalize-business-applications.md)**  
As an Enterprise Architect, you can use application rationalization to evaluate your business applications.
-   **[Exploring Portfolio list view](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/portfolio-list-view.md)**  
As an Enterprise Architect, use the Portfolio list view in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace to manage your business architecture, application portfolio, technology portfolio, and information portfolio. You can also manage your own entities.
-   **[Exploring total cost of ownership \(TCO\) in Enterprise Architecture Workspace](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-manage-application-tco.md)**  
The Application Total Cost of Ownership \(TCO\) plugin helps Enterprise Architects evaluate the cost of business applications. Use application costs to prioritize the application portfolio and align with the organization's business strategy.
-   **[Exploring Technology Portfolio view](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-technology-portfolio-view.md)**  
Use the Technology Portfolio in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace for Technology Lifecycle Management \(TLM\) and to manage your Technology Reference Model \(TRM\) catalog.
-   **[Exploring Enterprise Modeling and Visualization in the EA Workspace](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-modeling.md)**  
Enterprise Modeling and Visualization in EA Workspace helps you with diagramming and modeling capabilities and enable you to model the future state of your IT and its relationship to the business landscape.
-   **[Exploring digital integration management in Enterprise Architecture Workspace](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-explore-digital-integ-management.md)**  
Exploring digital integration management in Enterprise Architecture Workspace.
-   **[Exploring product capabilities](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-exploring-product-capabilities.md)**  
A product capability is the specific feature that a business application or a Technology Reference Model \(TRM\) product provides to support business objectives. Product capabilities are used to assess how well a business application or TRM product aligns with strategic goals and operational needs.
-   **[Open a Configurable Workspace experience in UI Builder](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/workspace-open-uib.md)**  
Access your Configurable Workspace experience in UI Builder for editing.
-   **[List of workspaces reference conkeyrefs](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/workspace-list-workspaces.md)**  
List of all workspaces ServiceNow offers to target specific users and issues.
-   **[Exploring the publishing center in Enterprise Architecture Workspace](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/publishing-center-in-ea-workspace.md)**  
The Publishing Center is a centralized capability in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace. It helps you configure, manage, and track publishing activities from a single location.
-   **[Exploring the architecture analyzer](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-explore-arch-analyzer.md)**  
You can use the Architecture Analyzer in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace to visually explore and analyze the relationships between architectural entities.
-   **[Exploring generating documents from diagrams](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/generate-doc-from-diagram.md)**  
Generating documents for a diagram helps you to transform modeling diagrams into governed, reusable architectural documents using predefined templates.

**Parent Topic:**[Enterprise Architecture Workspace](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/ea-workspace.md)

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