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            Enterprise Architecture on the Wire
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        <h2 class="content-head is-center">What is Waltz ?</h2>

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                    Overview
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                    In a nutshell Waltz allows you to visualize and define
                    your organisation's technology landscape.  Think of it
                    like a structured Wiki for your architecture.
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                    Crowd source your architecture
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                    A core belief behind Waltz is that technology information should be
                    accessible by everyone within your organisation.  Furthermore
                    employees are your best source of information about your technology
                    landscape and should therefore be empowered to enhance and correct
                    data.
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                    Building blocks
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                    Waltz blends information about your apps, capabilities,
                    organisational units, people and more to build out a comprehensive
                    set of views that allow you to focus on the details or zoom
                    out to see the big picture.
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                    Your model
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                    Waltz is domain agnostic.  Define the models and structures that make
                    sense for your organisation.
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                    See your applications
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                    Waltz presents data about your application.  Applications
                    can be linked to capabilities, organisational units, people,
                    servers, data types and more.   Once linked, the data
                    is displayed and relationships can be navigated.
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                    Information in Waltz can be augmented manually to increase the
                    value, comprehensiveness and accuracy of your application views.
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                    Aggregate Views
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                    Once applications have been linked to entities (such as
                    organisational units, people and capabilities) you can
                    navigate through dynamic views which show aggregate summaries
                    of related applications etc.
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                    See how an application is connected
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                <p>
                    How an application is connected to other applications in your organisation
                    is a central part of Waltz.  We can describe upstream and downstream
                    applications along with the data types exchanged.
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                    As this topology is created you may start to define authoritative sources
                    for datatypes and see which applications are sourcing their data from approved
                    golden sources.
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                    See how your organisation is connected
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                    Building upon an individual applications connections we can start to
                    view how applications are connected when they are aggregated.
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                    If authoritative sources have been defined a organisational-unit level
                    scorecard is produced showing what proportion of your logical data
                    flows are being sourced from strategic systems.
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                    Statistics
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                <p>
                    Define your own sets of statistic definitions and then
                    use Waltz to navigate though the collected values
                    using the structural entities relevant to you.
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                    Create and share custom groups
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                    Waltz allows you to create custom, ad-hoc groups of applications.  This
                    feature is often used to quickly understand a subset of your application
                    portfolio.  For instance you may wish to create a group containing
                    SOX relevant applications.
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                    Demo
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                We have a <a href="http://www.waltz-technology.com/waltz-web" style="color: #a8cbf5">
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                <i>Please</i> note that sample data is currently being created so not all features are demonstrated.
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                    Waltz is designed to complement existing architecture-related solutions in your organisation
                    (such as PowerDesigner, Archimate, Sparx or other Enterprise Architecture tools);
                    it complements these solutions and enables integration with them as the need arises.
                    Waltz is not intended to be a golden source of data other than for data attributes
                    derived uniquely in the tool (e.g. ‘Estate Complexity’ score).
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                    As a general principle, Waltz presents read-only information about the organisation
                    by aggregating data from numerous backend systems.  Where information is not readily
                    available Waltz does provide basic edit capabilities to facilitate data capture.
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                Waltz is being developed as open source application and is hosted on
                Github and is being built via Travis.
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                    Client Side</h4>
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                    Waltz is accessed via a web browser. Modern web browers are
                    supported.  We have explicitly tested on:
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                        <li>Chrome</li>
                        <li>Firefox</li>
                        <li>Safari</li>
                        <li>IE 11+</li>
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                    The application makes heavy use of AngularJS, lodash and D3 for interaction.
                    Bootstrap and Fontawesome for look n' feel and is built using Webpack and SASS.
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                    Security
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                    Waltz has a pluggable security system and can <i>authenticate</i> users
                    against a built in set of user profiles or integrate with external
                    systems such as SSO.  Contact us for more details.
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                    One authenticated users can be granted discrete privileges within the
                    application for <i>authorization</i> purposes.  New uses can be granted
                    a default set of permissions, we recommend using a generous set of
                    defaults as Waltz works best when a diverse set of users contribute their
                    knowledge.
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                    Server Side
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                <p>
                    Waltz is built as a Java based web application.  We currently
                    deploy to (embedded) Jetty and to Apache Tomcat (8+) server.  JDK 8
                    is required to build and run Waltz.
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                    We recommend a 64 bit JVM running with a minimum of 1GB heap.
                </p>
                <p>
                    Under the covers Waltz uses Spark Framework to expose endpoints,
                    Spring for dependency injection, JOOQ for database access and we
                    use Immutables for representing the domain object layer.
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                    Database</h4>
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                    Waltz is being built to support MariaDB (currently supported),
                    PostgreSQL (in progress) and Microsoft SQL Server (supported -however
                    you will need to purchase a license for JOOQ to compile and build the
                    system).
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        Waltz - Khartec 2017
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