EA Sphere
The capabilities of EA Sphere for organizations that do not run Jira, or that need the map available well beyond their Jira users.
The standalone edition brings enterprise architecture mapping, change and impact logs, degradation management and business continuity management to the whole organization. It is configured with each customer, either connected to the systems the organization already relies on or maintained from structured files, so that it fits the way your records are kept today.
Four capabilities
- Enterprise architecture mapping
- Records for systems, servers, interfaces and facilities, each with its owner, contacts, recovery tier, lifecycle dates, business functions and data types. Any system can be placed at the centre of the map to show what it depends on, what depends on it, and the work currently touching it, with the direction of data flow on every link.
- Change and impact logs
- Every change that references a system shows its downstream impact, its collisions with other open work, and any conflict with a change-freeze window before the work begins. When a change that delivers or retires a system is completed, the record is updated and the change is written to the log.
- Degradation management
- Degradations are recorded with stages, timestamped updates, incident tickets, root cause and mitigation, and are measured against the recovery objectives of the system’s tier. Notices for the affected audiences are prepared from a template, sending is limited to designated groups, and every notice is recorded.
- Business continuity management
- Recovery tiers define the recovery time objective, recovery point objective, maximum tolerable downtime and review interval once, and every record inherits them. The contact and escalation sheet, recovery sequence, cyber incident sheet and full continuity package are generated from the records each time they are opened, with the currency of the data stated on the cover.
Which edition is right for you
If your teams plan and deliver their work in Jira Cloud, EA Sphere for Jira places the map beside that work and is purchased through the Atlassian Marketplace.
If they do not, or if the people who need the map sit outside Jira, the standalone edition is the better fit. We will scope the configuration with you. Compare the editions.