Creating an inventory of applications

Creating an inventory of your applications allows you to get an understanding of your application landscape as input for requirements and architectural discussions. It also gives you an opportunity to clean up your application environment.

About this task

As you create the inventory, identify the following information:
  • The current user population: executives, managers, entire organization, small groups of people.
  • Nature of the applications: template-based, custom, back-end integration and connectivity, level of complexity.
  • Any current issues. If there are current application issues, decide if any need to be fixed before the upgrade, and if so, plan for the resources needed to do so. Concentrate your efforts on issues that are simple and easy to fix. After an upgrade, it is important to know if the upgrade caused an issue in an application or if the issue existed prior.
Notify users in advance of the upgrade and provide training on any application changes.