--- title: Enterprise Architecture Workspace Overview description: The Enterprise Architecture Workspace has a consolidated user interface and is designed for different user roles. locale: en-US canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-overview.html release: australia topic_type: reference last_updated: "2026-03-12" reading_time_minutes: 4 breadcrumb: [Exploring Enterprise Architecture Workspace, Enterprise Architecture Workspace, Enterprise Architecture] --- # Enterprise Architecture Workspace Overview The Enterprise Architecture Workspace has a consolidated user interface and is designed for different user roles. ## Highlights of the EA Workspace user interface - **Consolidated User Experience** The Enterprise Architecture Workspace home page provides visibility into your application portfolio. All the tasks that you can perform in the workspace are streamlined to fulfill your business goals. - **Designed for different user roles** Distinct page views for the exclusive activities of an Enterprise Architecture Analyst or Enterprise Architect, Enterprise Architecture administrator, and Enterprise Architecture user. Enterprise architects can manage their tasks effectively with contextual information and targeted actions. - **Home page with different sections** The home page contains the following UI components to help you navigate through the workspace. - **Overview** The Overview page displays the following sections: - **Insights**: Highlights various conditions for your application portfolio, business portfolio, information portfolio, and technology portfolio such as if business applications aren’t related to a business capability. - **Needs Attention**: Lists the tasks that you must act on. You can see the number of tasks for each tab. - The **My Approvals** tab lists the requests that are waiting for your approval. - The **My Requests** tab lists the requests that you have raised. - The **My Certifications** tab lists the certification tasks that are assigned to you, any group you belong to, any group you manage, or any of your direct reports. You can use this tab to keep your business applications inventory up to date by periodically certifying the data in the business applications table. - The **Assessments** tab lists the assessments for your applications that help you to evaluate and score your business applications based on qualitative inputs. - **Portfolio Overview and Health**: Helps you to monitor your portfolio and its health. You can also use the filter option to filter for and view specific business applications and business capabilities information. An indicator is displayed on top of the filter icon to show the number of filters applied. You can also clear all applied filters using the **Clear all filters** button. For more information, see [Apply filters to the Portfolio Overview and Health section](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-apply-filters-portfolio-overview-and-health.md). \[Omitted image "eaw-overview-page.png"\] Alt text: Enterprise Architecture Workspace Overview page. **Note:** You can zoom on this page to 200% or 400% through your browser settings without the loss of content or functionality. 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