LeanIX Reviews

I have experience using LeanIX and have generated a report on our platform. I have 2 years of experience with LeanIX. I've worked with clients such as Kendrill, and in my former years with IBM, we used spreadsheets and other applications for enterprise architecture to look at the entire process and architecture infrastructure for all systems. We moved to SAP LeanIX in the past 2 years because one of my clients, Subway, started to use SAP LeanIX as part of their transformational journey.

The most valuable features with LeanIX include the ability to define all of the various processes from an enterprise architecture perspective, looking at your infrastructure, looking at your processes, and being able to do the lineage all the way through so that each one of those you can pull them out into their component parts to determine exactly which areas you need to resolve, fix, plan, or build a strategy around.

For SAP LeanIX, we only use it for building the strategy for our enterprise architecture, processes, and the infrastructure for the organization. It was mostly for building a finance system because they were moving to SAP in the first place. We decided to use SAP LeanIX to look at all of their processes, rebuild their processes from the legacy application that they were utilizing, doing the mapping from the old to the new, and then determining where the gaps were, and then building up their various different levels of where the process changes would need to happen.

We are using LeanIX to enable all the solutions that are available in a consolidated view of the entire architecture portfolio and the application portfolio mapping. This is done with respect to the business capabilities. We use these capabilities to develop dashboards related to business functions, allowing our leadership to take immediate actions based on various factors such as IT and business consumption, future upgrades, and capacity improvements.

One of the most valuable features of LeanIX is the Enterprise Architecture Management tool. This tool helps us in enabling links between applications and respective business components. It ensures cost optimization by identifying duplicate applications and stopping unnecessary application onboarding, thus optimizing costs ahead of time. Additionally, it tracks the mapping of business functions, helping in the planning of future upgrades and capacity improvements. LeanIX allows us to generate detailed fact sheets for applications, enhancing the accuracy and integration of automated platforms. It aids in the optimization and restructuring of organizational needs based on real-time feedback, offering flexibility and experience as we use the product.

I use LeanIX for enterprise architect purposes.

My favorite feature of LeanIX is its ability to induct attribute-driven surveys. This is the aspect I like the most about it because it excels in this function.

LeanIX is primarily used to create and manage architectural models, link capabilities, activities, and products and generate comprehensive reports. It serves as a central platform for overseeing the IT landscape within EON, a large organization, streamlining operations and enhancing governance.

Implementing LeanIX has significantly improved our organization by providing a unified view of the IT architecture, which helps prevent redundant activities and facilitates the straightforward proposal of appropriate applications within the organization. This unified approach has led to increased operational efficiency.

I use the solution in my company for access control and landscape maintenance. It is used to put the life cycle and technical fit. The tool is used to swim through the life cycle and also for building maybe target architecture pictures by adding the objectives, the application, and the business capabilities.

For managing your IT landscape, the most valuable features of the solution revolve around the reports and the presentation that is there. I can develop a report and then do a presentation, or develop a report and some other diagrams and then put them all in one presentation, and from there, I can present things directly, so there is no need to move images.

I am just observing the landscape. For me, reporting is just to see if things are okay. If they are not okay, then I need to see what needs to be approved, what needs to be removed, and similar things.

I used it for a customer where we had to do application rationalization and portfolio optimization.

Ease of use is the most valuable feature. From an enterprise architecture perspective, it's not too cumbersome with too many functionalities, yet it has a lot of attributes for the content it covers.

So it's not too cumbersome. Its depth is good. I like that about it. It's compatible with a lot of other applications. It's catering to the area where others are not. So it's kind of complementing; instead of competing with others, it's complementing them.

Moreover, it's very customizable. So even if I want to implement a new framework, I can do it.

The solution offers ample of options. It's very flexible, with features, functionalities, and an admin console. You can customize it extensively. For example, if I need to add custom attributes for an application, I have that flexibility. It's a very flexible and customizable solution. I'm confident that my requirements will eventually be met within it.

Primarily, our use case is app rationalization. First, get a clear inventory of what applications we have and how they're categorized. 

Secondly, identifying obsolete ones for retirement or replacement. Those were the key reasons we bought it.

When we input our inventory and components, it tells us which ones are nearing end-of-life, deprecated, or obsolete. It also categorizes them. 

We've added flags, essentially tags, to mark certain things as non-strategic technologies. Using LeanIX, we made conscious decisions about which technologies are strategic and which aren't. 

This allows us to generate reports highlighting applications written in non-strategic technologies, giving us a better picture of our inventory size and what needs to migrate to the cloud or our target technology. 

So, it's about understanding what we have, seeing how it aligns with our strategic direction, and then driving the movement towards that direction.

We use the solution for:

• Application Portfolio Management
• Portfolio Rationalization
• Democratizing the EA decisions rolled up to CIO/CxO Dashboards
• Model the current state architecture and prepare for the target state architecture
• Business architecture-related activities like business capability model, and landscape views for change management/transformation/tech refresh. 

It helps to map the EA components with project/program management data, costs, and where to invest next (risks and opportunities) based on the TIME framework (tolerate, invest, migrate, eliminate).Now May 2025  : TIME,6R etc are part of application factsheet sections itself

It increases the synergy of architects, project managers, business analysts, and infra. The solution provides a single window view of business, application, data, and technology views of the IT ecosystem. Now the stakeholders collaborate more effectively like a workbench like the system LeanIX, so the data and insights that the CIO office wants are projected in real-time; it's become more dynamic instead of static Visio diagrams/PowerPoint presentations. The decisions are taken more democratically and as a shared responsibility, with transparency of how the data is collated and presented as a wholistic picture to senior management.

New May 2025 : Roadmaps now more customizable which includes handling more operation side of EA like milestones, initiatives, idea, impacts etc.