Impact and References

The Impact and References function helps you to determine the links between technical objects, such as tables and archiving objects, and business-related information, such as business processes, business process steps, transactions, and reports. You use impact analyses to decide whether a technical object is suitable for archiving or deletion, as well as to determine who you need to contact to discuss potential data volume reduction processes.

The Analysis List displays all previously conducted analyses.

Prerequisites

Your business processes are documented accurately in the Solution Documentation. For more information, see Solution Documentation.

You are using Technical Bills of Material (TBOMs) and Business Process Change Analyzer to check the effects of changes on business processes. For more information, see Preparation: Creating Technical Bills of Material (TBOMs) and Business Process Change Analyzer.

Note Note

If you are not using Solution Documentation to document the business processes, you need to prepare the transactions or reports used in the system.

End of the note.

Features

Identify connections between business objects and technical objects
Determine the impact of technical changes on business processes

Activities

To create a new impact analysis, choose the New Analysis pushbutton and follow the guided procedure.

You can select a completed analysis to open the Analysis Result screen area, which displays database tables that contain the selected objects and shows which business processes are affected by the proposed data volume reduction measures.

The Impacted Objects section provides the technical details to demonstrate the impact on table level as follows:
- For all processes listed in the Impacted Processes section, you need to contact the process owner, and clarify the impact of the process from the planned archiving activity and decide how to continue with the archiving project.
- The processes that do not appear in the Impacted Processes section are not impacted.
In the Analysis Settings screen area you can expand the tray to view all details about the conducted impact analysis.
To run functional test of the business processes, select a business process and choose the Test Plan pushbutton. You can create a test plan and define details for it. For more information, see Test Plan Management.