Aplas is a flexible platform for sharing software asset metadata with a workforce. It can extract information from other metadata repositories (e.g. source control, service management or enterprise architecture tools) and store it in an Aplas “software index”. From here, a software map (unique capability within Aplas) can be generated, allowing anyone to understand your organization’s software landscape. The end goal of Aplas is to enhance your workforce's knowledge of your software landscape - empowering developers, testers, analysts, architects and management to make better decisions with software. To fulfil the needs of such a broad range of audiences, varied Aplas “publication interfaces” can be shared. Each interface presents your metadata differently and is always in sync with your software index. Storing telling is an important use case with Aplas. This is made possible with map styles, a flexible system for controlling how a map is rendered to screen. The end result could present application costs in 3d or light up the impacts of a major transformation. Aplas comes with a library of pre-packaged style templates, or styles can be built from the ground up to visualize your data in real time.