DELIVER PHASE / Joint Activity

Environments &
Location Diagram
Shows the geographical location
of building blocks and runtime
environment specific details

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Why to create a
Environments & Implement

Location Diagram?

The Environments & Location Diagram shows which Architecture Building

Blocks and Solution Building Blocks are deployed at which locations as well as
the blocks’ interactions.

With the help of the Environments & Location Diagram, you better understand
the interaction between building blocks across different geographical locations.
For this, you also add the locations of the users interacting with the aspired
solution.​
Test

Deploy

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When to use a
Environments & Location Diagram?
The Environments & Location Diagram is created during the Deliver phase after
the Software Distribution Diagram.

Environments &
Software Distribution Diagram   Architecture Roadmap
Location Diagram

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tie them to strategic customers’ and their end- and define the enterprise productive use in the across the company.
business goals. users’ needs. architecture components. enterprise architecture
landscape.

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How to use a
Environments & Location Diagram?

Steps Expert Tips

Duration
approx. 30 - 60 minutes
Pick up the previously created Software Distribution Consider the Solution Context
1 Diagram and evolve it into the Environments & Location Diagram, to pick up the existing IT
Diagram. systems and user’s interacting with the
solution. For this, you can also look
at the Baseline Solution Architecture
Participation
1 - 3 People Identify the deployment environments in which your Diagram.​
2 building blocks are running. Add more details to the
“landing zones” of the Software Distribution Diagram The list of solution building blocks,
by explicitly naming the data center providers, the data which you will map to the locations
center location and infrastructure specific details per and deployment environments, is
“landing zone”. taken from the Solution Realization
Roles
Diagram.​
Enterprise architects,
developers, and end
Map the solution building blocks, as defined in the You can also outline different
users
3 Solution Realization Diagram, to the deployment deployment environments such as
environments. development, test and production.​
Use input from
Add technical details about the specific
• Software Distribution
Visualize the relationships of type request-response or runtime environments of the Solution
Diagram​
4 information flow between the building blocks. This helps Building Blocks as well as network
• Baseline Solution
to understand network requirements. related details, in case they are
Architecture Diagram​
relevant.​
• Solution Context
Diagram​
Remember to update your
• Solution Realization ​
Architectural Decisions List.​
Diagram

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Example
Environments & Location Diagram

AWS Data Center – Frankfurt (DE) Public Rocket Chips Data Center
Internet (Berlin, DE)
SAP Business Technology Platform

Cloud SAP S/4HANA

Cloud Foundry SAC Connector
Service Embedded Global
MPLS
Workflow Connectivity SAP Web SAP
Management Service Dispatcher BW/4HANA
Rocket Chips Office Locations
Identity SAP HANA
Authentication Cloud Austin San Francisco
(US, TX) (US, CA)
Launchpad Business Rules
Service Berlin (DE) Tokyo (JP)

Legend:
Request response:
Information flow from source to target:

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