Here’s a round-up of this month’s highlights:
Latest Releases
Demystifying Graph Traversal
What: Graph Traversal in Dependency Map view.
New feature: Access an interactive, illustrative, and visual simulation of how graph traversal works by clicking the info icon placed inside the degrees of relationships dropdown menu.
Usage: Understanding Graph Traversal will help you generate successful insights. You can interact with the illustrative visual simulation; either by changing the values on the slider or hovering over the components.
Examples:
Dependency Map View is great for high-level summaries and aggregations.
Conduct an application assessment and show your applications in their business context.
See the business impacts by making assessments of applications against your business capabilities.
Quickly see where you have too many applications supporting a capability.
Reveal a strong indicator of IT under-investment if you have capabilities with no applications mapped to them.
Suggestions: For further reading on the concept of graph traversal, refer to the Graph Traversal Knowledge Base article.
An Ardoq for Everyone
What: UI Accessibility and, in particular, the contrast in our views.
New feature: We have aligned to the WCAG 2.1 Web Standard to improve the accessibility of our interactive visualizations by ensuring a 3:1 contrast ratio between container fill color & icon color and component stroke color. All views where a component name is placed inside a container (Dependency Map, Capability Map, Roadmap, Treemap, Component Matrix, and Groups in Block Diagram).
Why: Over 32 million American adults aged 18 and older report experiencing vision loss. When we expand to worldwide statistics, color blindness affects 4.5% or about 350 million people. We've noted this obvious need to make information and content accessible to all. Making Ardoq accessible ensures everyone has a consistent experience regardless of their age or needs.
Bonus: It also helps you style your components using lighter colors. This was a challenge before, but not now. Check out the before & after comparison below. 💪
I am not going to be a star. I am going to be a legend!
What: Quick enhancement win for the Capability Map view legend.
New feature: Color swatches in the legend.
Usage: Make your business insights as clear as possible for your audience.
Examples:
Understanding how our applications support the business is crucial - and not only for analyzing how IT supports business operations.
When we can match an application to other business assets, we know we're providing a function supporting the business needs.
When we show connections between multiple applications to a business asset, we have a potential area for simplification.
The Capability Map is great for high-level summaries and aggregations.
Suggestions: For further reading on Capability Maps, refer to the Capability Map Knowledge Base article.
New Guides to Learn and Upskill
Help Articles:
Application Integration Management: Purpose, Scope, & Rationale. Learn what the purpose of Application Integration Management is and Ardoq’s recommended approach to integration modeling.
Blog Posts:
The Value of Enterprise Architecture for Successful Mergers and Acquisitions. Discover how Enterprise Architecture can help you make the right decisions during the integration phase to reap the benefits of a successful merger and acquisition initiative.