Organize applications, owners, criticality, supported processes, vendors and integrations into a living base for decisions. Built on Operational Graph. Rapid visibility of the technology portfolio without launching a heavy enterprise architecture implementation. Cross-industry solution in Area 01 — EA/BPA modernization. Assisted implementation.
01 · What it is
In most organizations, "application inventory" means an Excel spreadsheet someone assembled two years ago that nobody updates systematically. When a portfolio decision arrives — substitution, continuity, audit, change — the team reconstructs the view from scratch: who is the owner, which processes does it support, which systems integrate with it, what is the real criticality.
Live IT Inventory connects applications, owners, criticality, supported processes, vendors and integrations into one Operational Graph. The metadata for each application is registered once and queried every time a decision needs it. The inventory is not a report — it is a living base for decisions.
Visible, governed technology portfolio.
02 · Graph context
Live IT Inventory does not invent a parallel data model. It operates on the same Operational Graph that already holds your processes, applications, data, documents and owners. These are the entities the inventory connects:
When an application is declared in the graph, Live IT Inventory connects these entities and surfaces the full application profile as a queryable view. The relationships are already in the graph; visibility is a query, not a reconstruction.
03 · What you get
A Live IT Inventory engagement produces five operational capabilities on top of your Operational Graph. Each one is built through governed registration, not universal automatic discovery, and each one is owned by your team at the close of the engagement.
Applies across: financial services, insurance, manufacturing, oil & gas, retail — wherever IT portfolio visibility is a prerequisite for evidence-based decisions.
Every application in the portfolio is recorded with its operational metadata: name, owner, criticality, supported processes, associated vendors, key integrations and status. Not a spreadsheet — a queryable graph.
The inventory associates each application with its current owners. When a change, audit or portfolio decision touches an application, the graph surfaces who is accountable — without reconstructing the accountability chain.
Each application receives a criticality profile traced to the processes it supports. Prioritization, continuity and substitution decisions rest on documented criticality, not on perception.
The graph records the integration points between applications and external systems. Before a change, migration or substitution, the team sees what depends on what — without rebuilding the map from scratch.
Dashboards surface the portfolio by criticality, by owner, by vendor, by supported process and by integration status. The executive view is a query against the graph, not a manually assembled report.
04 · Capability catalog
Each application in the portfolio is registered across eight visibility dimensions. Together they form the operational profile that supports architecture, continuity and governance decisions without rebuilding the information from scratch.
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05 · Delivery
Live IT Inventory is delivered as a scoped engagement, not as a download. EAFlow works alongside your team to bring the portfolio into the Operational Graph, establish governed update flows and transfer ownership at the close. The result is operated by your people, not by us.
Discovery
We identify the portfolio segment that matters most to model first — typically the critical applications of a domain, a value chain or a governance boundary. Scope is declared on the Operational Graph, not on a spreadsheet.
Population
We work alongside your team to register the applications, owners, criticality, supported processes, vendors and integrations in the scoped boundary. Population is governed — it does not rely on universal automatic discovery.
Adoption
We transfer inventory operations to your team: how to extend the portfolio, how to keep metadata current through governed synchronization, and how to use dashboards for architecture and continuity decisions.
Delivered in scoped engagements. Owned by your team after handoff.
Industry context
Reference landings explaining how the Operational Graph applies in each sector. Insurance and Oil & Gas preserve EAFlow's scope boundary: IT, process, change and evidence context only.
Bring your IT portfolio to the table. We will walk through what Live IT Inventory would surface on your Operational Graph, and what an assisted implementation could look like for your governance.
Live IT Inventory is delivered as an assisted implementation on the EAFlow Operational Graph. Not a complete CMDB and does not promise universal automatic discovery — updates via governed synchronization.
