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Governance & Initiatives
Architecture governance is how you ensure that changes to your IT landscape are reviewed, approved, and tracked. Without it, teams make changes independently, technical debt accumulates invisibly, and nobody knows who approved what — or why.
Albumi provides Architecture Change Requests with approval workflows, Review Boards with voting, and initiative tracking that connects strategic projects to the applications they affect.
Architecture Change Requests
Structured Change Proposals
Every architecture change starts as an ACR — a reviewable package of modifications. Add new applications, change integrations, update data flows — all captured as a proposal that goes through your approval process before touching production data.
Review Boards
Set up Review Boards with advisory and decision-making roles. Board members vote on change requests. Security architects flag PII concerns. Platform owners approve integration changes. Decisions are recorded with full audit trail.
Version-Controlled Changes
Every modification is tracked — who changed what, when, and why. Full audit trail for compliance. If something goes wrong, you can trace back to the exact change and the person who approved it.
Initiative Tracking
Link Initiatives to Applications
Strategic initiatives — cloud migration, platform consolidation, vendor replacement — touch dozens of applications. Albumi links each initiative to the applications it affects, so you see the full scope from day one, not halfway through the project.
Technology Lifecycle Management
Track IT components — databases, platforms, frameworks — and their lifecycle status. When Oracle 12c reaches end-of-support, instantly see every application that depends on it. Plan the migration with full blast radius visibility.
Progress Tracking
See how initiatives progress: 3 of 8 applications migrated, 5 remaining. No status meetings needed — the data tells the story. Each affected application shows its current impact status: migration, replacement, enhancement, or retirement.
Practical Examples
New Integration Approval
A project team wants to add a new integration between the CRM and the data warehouse. They submit an ACR. The architecture review board sees that the integration carries Customer data (PII). The security architect flags it for additional review. The board votes to approve with conditions: OAuth2 authentication, encrypted transport. Decision recorded, conditions tracked.
Oracle to PostgreSQL Migration
You create a "Database Migration" initiative and link it to all 8 applications that depend on Oracle. As the team migrates each application, the status updates: 3 migrated, 2 in progress, 3 remaining. Leadership sees progress without asking. When all 8 are done, the Oracle IT component moves to End-of-Life.
Works Together With
Impact Analysis & Visualization
Run impact analysis during architecture reviews. See the blast radius before approving changes.
Application Portfolio
Initiatives affect applications. Portfolio data feeds governance decisions.
Integration & Data
Governance ensures new integrations follow standards. Data lineage supports compliance reviews.
Govern Changes, Track Initiatives
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