DEPENDENCY MAPPING

What depends on what is tribal knowledge. Impact assessments guess, changes surprise, and when something fails, the blast radius is discovered live, in production.

Actors

  • Enterprise Architect
  • Change Manager
  • Service Owner

Systems / Vendors

  • ServiceNow CMDB
  • Dynatrace
  • Splunk

Business Question

"Before we touch this server, what breaks if it goes down — and why does answering that take a week of asking around?"

What SPoG Does

  • Visualizes interconnections among applications, services and infrastructure automatically.
  • Keeps dependency maps current from observed traffic and discovery data, not stale diagrams.
  • Powers impact analysis for changes, incidents and risk decisions with live evidence.

Outcome Metrics

100%

Dependency visibility

−50%

Unforeseen change impact

4–6 wks

To first live map