What is a Landscape?
A Landscape is a high-level overview of a coherent set of entities, grouped based on function or purpose, showing what the entities are made of and capable of. Common landscapes for organizations are the application landscape, the IT landscape, and the process landscape.
Creating the Landscape for you in close Collaboration
We have created a service for you, that if you want, we can create a Landscape for you, and you and your team members can give feedback anytime, anywhere via the Dragon1 Viewer on your iPad and Smartphone.
The Dragon1 Platform and its specialized tools enable close collaboration between us and you, via the web applications Architecture Repository, Visual Designer, and Viewer.
How does it work?
Suppose you want to create an IT landscape:
- We will first create a project or campaign together with a deadline and plan the activities or schedule the tasks to execute.
- You will then collect the necessary and available data, for instance in an Excel sheet.
- Next we will upload the data automatically and enrich the data manually.
- Then we will build a visual Landscape using the data and you will comment on the landscape visualization.
- We will iterate this cycle four or five times in two or three weeks.
We will be using all the important features in the Dragon1 web application to perform the task:
In the Architecture Repository we will upload and import the data. And we will show you how to do it yourself. At any time you can take over this work if you like or want.
In the Visual Designer we will build a model using the data, build a view and visualization on top of the model. And as with the Architecture Repository, we will show you how we do that. Also, the Dragon1 Help System explains thoroughly how you can make use of the Dragon1 software. As we provide you with literally everything you need to eventually be able to do it yourself.
In the Viewer you will watch the published intermediate versions of the Landscape and be able to comment on it. Also, there are many features to handle the Landscape: filter data, select data, view the changes made, and message directly to people part of the workflow for the product.
Often a Landscape is part of a bigger plan. If you prefer you can create in time all the deliverables and a complete presentation on the Dragon1 platform, working with a single source of truth, thus increasing the quality of data you use.
More Information
Are you interested in our Landscaping service, please call us at +31 317 411 341 or mail sales@dragon1.com.
We will contact you ASAP to discuss what detailed approach best fits your needs and situation.
Example Application Landscape
This is an example screenshot of an Application Landscape.
Example Process Landscape
This is an example screenshot of a Processes Landscape.
Example Process-Application Landscape
This is an example screenshot of a Process Application Landscape Diagram.
Example Project Landscape
This is an example screenshot of an Educational Program Landscape.
Example IT Landscape
This is an example screenshot of an IT landscape.
Example ArchiMate Based Landscape
With ArchiMate you can also create any Landscape model you like. The above diagrams show the generic eGovernment Application Landscape, called GEMMA for municipalities.
Various organizations in the Netherlands have an interactive version of this map and have defined the 25 standard Dragon1 application views on top of it.