Many teams adopt the Sparx Systems APM Accelerator in Enterprise Architect and Prolaborate for Application Portfolio Management (APM) and want to align it more closely with their architecture use cases and governance approach. The goal is to use the Accelerator as a solid starting point and shape its metamodel, viewpoints, and dashboards into a single, reliable view of the application landscape for IT, business, and product leaders.
This training is designed with that outcome in mind. Over 2–3 days, delivered onsite or remotely, we work with your team in your Sparx Systems environment to show how to implement and extend the APM Accelerator in Sparx Enterprise Architect (EA) and Prolaborate, covering foundational Sparx APM model mechanics such as metamodel configuration, spreadsheet imports, dashboard creation, and review setup through live walkthroughs, guided exercises, and best-practice guidance aligned to your portfolio and governance model.
Our Experts can help jumpstart your APM with well-defined decision-grade metrics, aligned governance and role-based dashboards.
What This Training Helps Your Team Achieve
Navigate Sparx EA for APM with Confidence
We walk your team through your repository layout, APM packages, permissions, and naming rules, aligned to your APM taxonomy and naming standards, so everyone is clear on where to add data and how to keep the structure clean.
Create Portfolio Records in a Consistent Way
You’ll practice creating application records using approved toolboxes and quick-linker rules, then linking capabilities, processes, integrations, and technologies using governed modeling patterns to support a structured application inventory in Sparx EA.
Capture Consistent Attributes
We show how to record properties like business fit, technical fit, lifecycle, ownership, cost, and risk so entries are complete and comparable across teams.
Import Spreadsheets into a Governed Repository
You’ll learn a repeatable process to map spreadsheet columns to EA properties, run imports, perform bulk updates, and resolve validation errors until the data meets your quality standards.
Maintain High Data Quality
We demonstrate how to run validation checks, interpret warnings, and apply updates so your portfolio stays reliable and ready for analysis.
How We Help You Turn Your Sparx APM Data Into dashboards
With the data structured and governed, we move into the views that support real conversations. Your team learns how to create:
- Application landscapes by capability or business area
- Overlap and rationalization snapshots
- High-level dependency (integration) views
We focus on what to color, which tags to use, and how to keep views readable for stakeholders who are not modelers.
Create Prolaborate Dashboards—Start to Finish
We provide step-by-step guidance to build role-based pages for CIO, CFO, CISO, product and portfolio leaders: setting filters, adding cards, charts, and heatmaps, saving views, and publishing pages that can grow into richer APM dashboards in Prolaborate over time.
Run Prolaborate Reviews and Collaborate without Sparx EA
We show how to launch Reviews, invite stakeholders, capture comments, track actions, and close the loop so feedback flows smoothly without requiring the EA client.
Generate Reports and Exports Quickly
Your team learns how to create visuals and data extracts for steering meetings and how to save repeatable views for fast refreshes before each forum.
Run APM as a Weekly Rhythm
To make this sustainable, we share a simple weekly APM cadence so your team knows how to keep imports, validation, dashboards, and reviews running as a repeatable rhythm that keeps your portfolio current and decision-ready, and aligns with your APM governance model in Sparx EA.
How The Training Is Delivered
- Delivery: Onsite at your office or remote via secure sessions
- Duration: 2–3 days (core modules, with optional deeper focus on imports, dashboards, reviews, or diagramming)
- Class size: Up to ~12 participants per batch for hands-on guidance. Additional participants can also be added.
Each module follows a simple pattern: short demo in your environment, guided exercise with step-by-step instructions, and discussion on how to apply it in your context.
Who This Is For
This training is ideal for enterprise architects, analysts, product owners, application owners, and portfolio leads who will enter, curate, or consume APM data via EA and Prolaborate. It is focused on practical use of the tools, not on generic Sparx EA methodology coaching.
Deploy a standardized APM framework instantly using our industry-proven metamodels and pre-configured patterns.
What Your Organization Gets
- A team that can create, import, validate, and maintain portfolio data using clear steps.
- Live Prolaborate dashboards your leaders can use immediately, built by your team during the training.
- A practical starter kit: import templates, list views, dashboard “recipes,” and a simple “how we work” guide.
- A repeatable operate-and-improve rhythm that keeps your APM current and decision-ready.
