What is Skyline

Purpose: This concept article explains the objective, scope, and core capabilities of the Skyline application. It is intended to help customers and stakeholders understand what Skyline is, why it matters, and how it delivers value through a clear, real-time landscape overview.

Skyline addresses this complexity by providing a centralized, intuitive view of the entire landscape, enabling faster understanding and better decision-making.

Skyline is an intuitive, easy-to-use application that provides a comprehensive landscape overview of the environment. It visualizes the selected landscape in an “as-is” state, allowing users to quickly understand system structure, relationships, and status across different levels.

Skyline reduces complexity by presenting relevant information in a unified view, helping users identify dependencies, navigate environments efficiently, and respond faster to issues.

• Landscape: A logical grouping of systems representing an IT environment

• As-is State: Current, real-time representation of the landscape
• Primary Data Center with High Availability: Active, production environment
• Disaster Recovery (DR) Data Center with High Availability: Environment used in case of failures
• Zoom-Based Navigation: Interactive navigation by zooming in and out using the mouse wheel

Skyline presents landscapes at multiple levels, from high-level overview down to more detailed system views. Users can switch directly between these levels using navigation options or zoom functionality.

• Transparent and up-to-date view of the entire IT landscape
• Faster orientation through intuitive navigation and direct level switching
• Improved operational awareness across Primary and DR environments
• Role-based access aligned with user responsibilities

Skyline relies on underlying landscape data sources and integrated services. Certain features, such as DR data center visualization, are available based on contractual scope and integration setup.

Available functions and visibility depend on the assigned authorization profile, such as Landscape Owner or Landscape Viewer.