5 key features for Information System Mapping with myCarto
myCarto offers numerous features to support your IS mapping and Enterprise Architecture. It provides manual or automated data collection, map and dashboard generation, graphical modeling, and access management, making it a comprehensive toolkit for managing your IT assets.
Rather than listing all available features, we have selected five key functionalities.
These five features of myCarto will take your IS governance to a new level: one where Information System is fully mastered!
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No-code & fully administrable meta-model
Why is the myCarto meta-model a key feature?
- Your Information System is constantly evolving, and its modeling must adapt to these transformations.
- Enterprise architecture frameworks provide guidelines, not rigid constraints. You can adapt them to your IT landscape and resources.
- The integration of key structuring forces is essential: regulations, technological evolution, organization, security, customer requirements, and best practices.
- As your practices evolve and mature, your meta-model will reflect and support these changes.
Key Features of the myCarto meta-model function
- Compatible with enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Archimate, Zachman, and CIGREF/Club Urba layered approaches.
- Pre-configured and customizable meta-model library.
- Progressive enrichment of reference frameworks: applications, infrastructure, data flows, organizations, processes, projects, etc.
- Fully graphical and no-code administration of the meta-model.
- Automatic propagation of meta-model updates across all maps.
Typical use case:
You start your project with a simple and pragmatic meta-model, allowing you to quickly integrate your data and gain a clear vision of your IT system.
Over time, you can expand the meta-model with new objects, adapting it to your growing level of maturity.
Map Generator: explore every corner of your Information System
Why is the myCarto map generator a key feature?
- Who constructs a building without a blueprint? Who drives without checking an updated traffic map? The same logic applies when navigating and transforming your IT system.
- IT systems are highly complex. Maps help simplify and visualize information that would otherwise be hard to interpret.
- Managing an IT system requires understanding it. Exploring an ever-evolving digital landscape starts with a map.
- Converting a data repository into a visual map reveals inconsistencies, vulnerabilities, and areas for improvement.
Key Features of the myCarto map generator
- Built-in library with over 50 map templates.
- Unlimited map creation for your governance atlas.
- Powerful graphical engine, developed from five years of R&D, for transforming raw data into visual maps.
- Numerous formatting options, including conditional display, access rights management, and time-based views.
- Nine predefined structures (hierarchical, organic, circular, etc.) for adapting maps to different needs.
- Dynamic, interactive maps with automatic updates.
Typical use case :
You have reviewed business requests, and a new project becomes a priority. To refine its scope, the project manager and research lead consult the POS (Plan d’Occupation des Sols) of the relevant domain.
By exploring adjacent domains, they discover that a similar need is already being addressed elsewhere by an application flagged in red for obsolescence.
This presents an opportunity to pool resources and propose a new, unified solution for both departments.
By analyzing associated data flows, the impact of transitioning to the new solution becomes clear, allowing for better decision-making.
Dashboard for IT System Urbanization
Why are myCarto dashboards a key feature?
- Who drives a car without a dashboard? Managing an Information System is complex, and doing so blindly is a risk.
- Dashboards complement IS maps with KPIs, providing real-time insights.
- They trigger and secure decision-making, serving as the standard entry point for the application.
- Information Systems rely on scattered data. Dashboards centralize information from CMDB, PPM, ITSM, finance, and more.
Key Features of myCarto dashboards
- Native integration with a library of dashboards—no need for third-party Business Intelligence tools.
- Clickable graphs that let you explore associated KPIs and refine your decision-making.
- Unlimited dashboard generation for at-a-glance monitoring.
- Built-in dashboard designer, including a query engine and seven reporting models.
Typical use case :
The monthly IT management meeting begins…
The team reviews tracking indicators and repository completeness.
They check contract renewal deadlines, technical debt alerts, and the impact of ongoing transformation projects.
Within minutes, the team has all the KPIs needed for full control of the Information System.
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Interoperability – Integrating myCarto into your IT system
Why is myCarto interoperability a fey feature?
- Like any mission-critical application, Information System mapping is most effective when integrated into the IT ecosystem.
- Data from third-party applications is enhanced through graphical representation.
- The integration follows the “Single Source of Truth” principle, ensuring data is captured accurately and avoiding desynchronization risks.
- Eliminating duplicate data entry facilitates adoption and user engagement.
- Seamless integration ensures smooth interaction between infrastructure and development tools (Build & Run).
Key Features of myCarto interoperability
- Integration with REST API interfaces.
- Compatibility with standard IT management applications (CMDB, ITSM, PPM, Finance, Knowledge Base, etc.).
- API-based security access controls to protect sensitive data.
- Interoperability with business applications and enterprise authentication systems (LDAP, SSO).
- Support for heterogeneous data consolidation, making information available as interactive maps or dashboards.
Typical use case:
To fully manage IT operations, from Build to Run, the IT department sets up a technical stack that integrates supervision, ITSM, and PPM. These tools enrich IT services management and ensure continuous operations (MCO).
However, as new components are added, legacy systems accumulate, making IT increasingly complex. Dependencies grow, and institutional knowledge is scattered across teams.
IT system mapping provides the clarity needed to regain control.
By interfacing with existing tools, data becomes more structured and interconnected, enabling new levels of analysis and digital exploration.
BPMN Process Modeling – From business to infrastructure
Why is myCarto BPMN integration a fey feature?
- Process modeling bridges Information System and business operations, ensuring alignment between both.
- A graphical representation of a process is a map of interconnected elements—it links actors, chronological steps, decisions, and applications.
- Just like Information System maps, process models help understand, simulate, optimize, and improve workflows.
- BPMN connects business layers with application layers, which in turn link to infrastructure and reference data.
- BPMN acts as a meeting point for business analysts (MOA), functional architects (AMOA), and technical architects (MOE).
Key Features of myCarto BPMN modeling
- Native integration of a BPMN 2-compliant process designer.
- Access to your application reference system from the process designer.
- Process data propagation across all application maps.
- Impact simulation of various events on processes (server shutdown, data flow interruption, hardware failure, new digital services, etc.).
- Import of BPMN 2-compliant models from third-party tools.
Typical use case :
A maintenance operation is required on machine “Serv 024”.
You can shut down the machine and observe the consequences, waiting for customer support calls to surge… Or, you can simulate the impact of shutting down “Serv 024,” which hosts the document management system (GED) and digitization services.
By anticipating disruptions, you notify the billing, purchasing, and accounting teams, allowing them to plan the least disruptive maintenance window.
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