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raisasalsabilRookie

Academy & Best Practices

Best Practices for Interface Naming

What is the best practice for naming interfaces? I’m new to using interfaces in LeanIX and how they are used in diagrams. Could you please recommend some best practices? For example, the ones that your company uses.In the Interface Modeling Guidelines, the only recommendation mentioned is:“Define self-explaining naming conventions. Establish clear conventions within the organization to determine ownership and change management responsibilities for Interfaces, promoting consistent modeling practices (e.g., Provider, Publisher/Subscriber)”I also found that in the documentation, they name it “App1 to App2”. However, I find it not suitable if the interface is bi-directional.I would appreciate some practical examples. Thank you.

AliBRookie

LeanIX Onboarding

Displaying factsheet "Alias" names in diagrams

Hello,Fact sheet names can be long. The “Alias” field is super helpful to reduce the length to a commonly used abbreviation. In fact, it is already an option in reports to use Alias when available but Name when not.Is there a way for me to use the Alias name in fact sheets in a diagram where space is often at a premium?CheersA

Saritha IyerRookie

Application Portfolio Management

Business capability level harmonization in Lean IX and ServiceNow

Is it possible to send Tag created in SAP LeanIX as CI through standard ServiceNow integration?

Max RickayzenLeanIX Team

Academy & Best Practices

New Feature: Calculations in SAP LeanIX

Calculations allow you to populate fact sheet fields based on values from other fields. You can set up your calculation logic from scratch, or start with a template and adjust it to your needs. Check out this how-to video showing the feature in action:You can find more information including further coding examples in our documentation.

Alex BolconLeanIX Team

The Americas User Group

SAVE THE DATE: Q2 2025 What's New Webinar - May 15th

It is that time of the quarter again and we are excited to be hosting the quarterly “What’s New” webinar on May15th from 11am to 12pm EST! In this session we will demonstrate how new functionality can be used in your day-to-day processes that are supported by LeanIX. One exciting update for this session is that we also will be joined by a member of our Product team to discuss our new Inventory Builder.Please register here and the agenda is as follows:Reduce Time & Cost of Importing Data with the Inventory Builder Data Driven Application Rationalization Insights in LeanIX with Calculations Improve Workspace Usability with Workspace Views & Separate Vendor Lifecycle We have also heard your feedback which involved wanting to discuss value drivers as well as more Q&A time. We revised our structure to have less topics with more focus on value of the topic for a use case/pain point. This also allows for more focused Q&A. Presenting as many topics as possible doesn’t bring val

Aziz SamimRookie

Application Portfolio Management

Showing subscriber on the diagram.

Hi,For some time now, I have been looking for a way to display my subscribers in my diagram.Example:I have the application Confluence, and with a show dependency, I would like to display my manager/responsible linked to the information sheets.Is it possible to do this, or is it under development?Thank you :)

Application Portfolio Management

Application + Component with no Lifecycle shows as No Risk. Desired behavior?

I read the informative thread regarding the two sets of lifecycle dates and reviewed the documentation Julia linked. What is the thought on showing components with blank lifecycle information as “No Risk”?I can understand that it may not be very common to have ‘blank’ IT components, but I would think the status should be “Missing Lifecycle Information”.

Beau NelsonLeanIX Team

The Americas User Group

Collecting Useful Resources to Share with LeanIX Customers

Hi Everyone! Happy Monday. If you have worked closely with the LeanIX CS team or even with the LeanIX sales team before your journey with LeanIX, you were likely exposed to various materials, resources, and guides about LeanIX and related topics. I would love to know if you have a favorite or a set of favorite resources that you have used or shared with your teams and why you found them so helpful. They can be any type of resource and can be centered on different topics. I’d like to compile an internal list to reference for myself and team, and to give to newer customers when they start out with LeanIX. Thanks all and have a great week!

Robert Jean-SimonLeanIX Team

The Americas User Group

Unlocking the Power of AI in SAP LeanIX: Introducing the Inventory Builder

Join Seth Lippincott, Senior Product Marketing Manager, and Johannes Wilden, Principal Product Manager at SAP LeanIX, as they unveil the new Inventory Builder — a groundbreaking, AI-powered feature now generally available in SAP LeanIX.This session explores how Inventory Builder is transforming the way enterprise architects gather architectural data by automating previously manual, time-consuming tasks. You'll get a deep dive into the technology behind the feature, see a live demo of it in action, and gain insights into the exciting roadmap of capabilities coming in the next 12 months.This is your chance to see how Inventory Builder delivers real, immediate value — and where it's headed next.Date: April 30, 2025Time: 10:00am ESTRegister here.

Zane RossCommunity Manager

The Americas User Group

LeanIX | Customer Success Office Hours AMERICAS (April 25th)

Connect with a like-minded community of Enterprise and Cloud Architects and learn from the knowledge and expertise from those LeanIX users. Thursday April 25th @ 11am EST.Open forum to discuss, modeling, upcoming features and provide feedback to the LeanIX Customer Success team. LeanIX company & product updates Roundtable discussions Community questions, engagement, and feedback We encourage you to comment in this chat thread if there are specific questions or topics you would like to discuss. This will help us tailor the session to your interests and needs.Register for the Session Here, and check out all of our upcoming events on the LeanIX Community Events Page. We hope to see you there!

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raisasalsabilRookie

Academy & Best Practices

Best Practices for Interface Naming

What is the best practice for naming interfaces? I’m new to using interfaces in LeanIX and how they are used in diagrams. Could you please recommend some best practices? For example, the ones that your company uses.In the Interface Modeling Guidelines, the only recommendation mentioned is:“Define self-explaining naming conventions. Establish clear conventions within the organization to determine ownership and change management responsibilities for Interfaces, promoting consistent modeling practices (e.g., Provider, Publisher/Subscriber)”I also found that in the documentation, they name it “App1 to App2”. However, I find it not suitable if the interface is bi-directional.I would appreciate some practical examples. Thank you.

Saritha IyerRookie

Application Portfolio Management

Business capability level harmonization in Lean IX and ServiceNow

Is it possible to send Tag created in SAP LeanIX as CI through standard ServiceNow integration?

Application Portfolio Management

Application + Component with no Lifecycle shows as No Risk. Desired behavior?

I read the informative thread regarding the two sets of lifecycle dates and reviewed the documentation Julia linked. What is the thought on showing components with blank lifecycle information as “No Risk”?I can understand that it may not be very common to have ‘blank’ IT components, but I would think the status should be “Missing Lifecycle Information”.

Beau NelsonLeanIX Team

The Americas User Group

Collecting Useful Resources to Share with LeanIX Customers

Hi Everyone! Happy Monday. If you have worked closely with the LeanIX CS team or even with the LeanIX sales team before your journey with LeanIX, you were likely exposed to various materials, resources, and guides about LeanIX and related topics. I would love to know if you have a favorite or a set of favorite resources that you have used or shared with your teams and why you found them so helpful. They can be any type of resource and can be centered on different topics. I’d like to compile an internal list to reference for myself and team, and to give to newer customers when they start out with LeanIX. Thanks all and have a great week!

ccggnnRookie

Application Portfolio Management

Import ARIS XML Models in LeanIX

Dear LeanIX Community, I am looking for a way to import ARIS XML models—potentially involving a conversion step—into LeanIX. Does any one has experience with this or even a solution or workaround? Thank you

Alessandro JrRookie

Application Portfolio Management

Automated Data Propagation from Parent to Child Business Capabilities

We have a three level Business Capability model in LeanIX. We're interested in automating the process of rolling up maturity ratings from child fact sheets to their parent Business Capability fact sheet. When we update the children, we'd like to have the parent BC automatically inherit an average of the child ratings. Is there a built-in LeanIX feature, automation or API-based solution to achieve this? #BusinessCapabilities #Automation

Alessandro JrRookie

Application Portfolio Management

Best Practice for Synchronizing SaaS Hosting Fields with Application Fact Sheets in LeanIX

Is there a way to synchronize SaaS Hosting (IT Component) fields with their associated application fact sheet fields (e.g. Subscribers, Lifecycle, Tech Fit) when creating it from the catalog in LeanIX? We see the value of having associated Apps/IT Components sheets for SaaS solutions but struggle with getting the ITC data populated. How have you managed this? Has anyone automated the process to ensure that the SaaS IT Component’s fact sheet is populated consistently with the application fact sheet? If so, what are the best practices for connecting the two fact sheets to create some synchronization?

KaouteRookie

The Americas User Group

Do you use LeanIX in your journey of SOX compliance ?

Hello,We will start a journey in 2025 to be SOX compliant. I would like to know if there is any return of experience of enterprise facing the same challenge by using LeanIX. Thank you for your help :)Best

Beau NelsonLeanIX Team

The Americas User Group

Rolling out LeanIX to your Stakeholders - Your Approach

Hello All!I hope everyone is doing great and is having a wonderful start to the week. I’m often asked for advice with rolling out LeanIX to the broader organization. It can be challenging to effectively loop in various teams and stakeholders and officially begin ‘democratizing’ EA within your business. While LeanIX does have an official Rollout and Adoption Toolkit (which I wholeheartedly recommend checking out and utilizing if you haven’t already), I’m curious to learn how you went about this all-important step in your LeanIX journey. I’m hoping you can share your answers to some or all of these questions below:Have you begun your rollout to the wider organization yet? Still Planned? With regard to your rollout, what does your end goal look like? How have you (or will you) go about gaining stakeholder adoption of LeanIX and EA as a whole? What (if any) major challenges were you facing before, during, and after your rollout of LeanIX?Thank you for your responses to these questions eve

Beau NelsonLeanIX Team

The Americas User Group

Keeping with the TIME theme...

Hi All, Hope everyone is having a fantastic Monday!If you haven’t seen my post last week, I asked whether or not your organization has implemented TIME in your EA practice and your thoughts about the model itself. @Jacques, a greatly appreciated community member, responded to this question with a great example of how they’ve utilized TIME and the custom approach they utilized (seriously, this is a great response and if you haven’t read it, please do so!). Jacques also posted a question at the end of his response to the community, and to ensure it gets visibility, I wanted to repost it here.Jacques wrote: “How are other organisations assessing TIME across their organisation with different Functional Fits per region/team/business unit ?” Appreciate your time and have a great week everyone!

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7 Nightmares of a CIO and How Architects Can Help

Marcus Schaper, Business Angel & Senior Advisor at LeanIX Connect Summit 2023: Architecture will evolve into a topic on the C-level agenda, and architects can help solve some of the most challenging questions.

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