Empowering architects to build consensus and drive their business forward

Simplifying software

As a software mapping platform, Aplas is able to break down thousands of complex applications, integrations, components and processes.

Unlike complex architecture tools, software mapping is designed to reach the broadest possible audience, allowing everyone to understand how your business operates through software.

Breaking down a complex software landscape

REA Group

The Challenge

REA Group was one of the earliest adopters of agile methodology and microservices architecture. Over the past decade this has lead to a highly complex architecture, managed by a highly distributed and autonomous workforce, a compounding challenge that makes delivery of end-to-end solutions difficult.

The Result

Introduced in 2018, Aplas is the central repository for software asset metadata within REA Group - across all Australian and Asian businesses. It is used as a key productivity tool to inform the executive and developers alike. It has allowed REA Group to stay agile while continuing to scale.

"Aplas is REA's key product to make sense of our microservices web. As the number of systems, integrations, teams and products increased our ability to understand our ecosystem decreased.With Aplas we now can visualize our digital ecosystem allowing us to make better decisions and effectively manage technology evolution.Aplas has a flexibility that perfectly accommodates our metadata, allowing systems plotted on the map to carry valuable information. This information is used by delivery, business and product people alike."

Dan AragioHead of Architecture

Metadata is a mess

IT has a big master-data-management issue. ITSM, CIDB, EA, PM, and SCM tools all with overlapping and unsynchronized software asset metadata.

Software indexing is about (1) creating a high-level workflow-agnostic index of software asset metadata, and (2) integrating via APIs or package connectors, to keep it in sync with other systems.

How software indexing works

Aplas lives at the intersection of people and software - it is the foundation for making better decisions with software, empowering business to thrive in a digital world

Styles tell stories

From a single map, many styles can be designed - each telling a different story on a single organizational software map.

Our style designer is extremely powerful - change the color of applications to show risk, or the color of integrations to show which technology supports them. Visualize your data in anyway you can imagine.

How maps and styles work

Designing a style on top of a software map

Experience our publication interfaces

Interface

Style Project

Don't let cross project impacts cause cost and schedule blowouts. Ensure all stakeholders are on the same page through project views.

Demonstrate project plans and phases: Show how projects will impact different systems, user groups and integrations across multiple phases.
Ensure visibility of cross-system impacts: Highlight and track system impacts as they occur, visually using the same project plan.
Just a template: Our style designer allows you to visualize any data in any way. This is just an example of what is possible.
Always up-to-date: Styles are always in sync with your underlying data and map,, never update a diagram again.

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Interface

Style App Cost

Breakdown the cost of your entire software landscape

Mouse breakdown: Zoom-out to view total costs across your landscape, zoom-in to breakdown costs across people, software and infrastructure.
Breakthrough comms: Leverage the tangabile nature of a software map to help ground costs discussions.
Just a template: Our style designer allows you to visualize any data in any way. This is just an example of what is possible.
Always up-to-date: Styles are always in sync with your underlying data and map,, never update a diagram again.

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Publications empower everyone

Getting the right information to the right people at the right time is extremely challenging. When processes fail, who has the insight to make a correction?

Aplas is built around publishing software asset metadata to the broadest possible audience. Ensuring it's always available and nothing falls through the cracks.

How publishing works

Aplas for all

Many exisiting software asset repositories are so specialized to one particular audience that they become useless for everyone else. All the effort taken to populate their complex data models end up being their undoing. They just don't have enough users to sustain the investment in keeping them up-to-date.

Aplas is a simple, workflow-agnostic, outward facing platform that gives everyone a place to learn about software. Click to see how Aplas facilitates use-cases across your organization.

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