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Best Practices for Assigning External App IDs During Initial Excel Import into LeanIX

Hi everyone,We’re preparing to import preliminary application data into LeanIX using Excel, but currently don’t have any External App IDs assigned to the applications.Looking for best practices or recommended formats that have worked well for generating unique, consistent, and persistent External App IDs—especially during the initial import phase.Any suggestions or examples from your experience would be greatly appreciated!Thanks in advance!

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10 hours ago

Simon ClaydenRookie

Academy & Best Practices

Recording Business Capability Maturity for Multiple Organisations

Scenario:An organisation has four business divisions.Business capability maturity differs across business divisions (I.e. Data Management is “Ad Hoc” in Division 1, “Defined” in Divisions 2 & 3, and “Managed” in Division 4. Question:Where in the factsheet for Data Management should those maturity scores be captured? Is it under Organisation and the Business Unit Maturity field?

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14 hours ago

geoffrey.lowneyVeteran

Application Portfolio Management

When does deleting a Transformation result in other fact sheets being archived?

Hey LeanIX team.I create a Transformation such as Change Application Technology. I want to specify a New IT Component that does not already exist, so I type the name and click “+ Create new fact sheet...” in the popup menu, and that results in the fact sheet being created (as expected).If I delete the Transformation then the newly-created fact sheet gets automatically archived. This happened (in a simple test) even if I had added a description to the referenced fact sheet.Creating and then deleting a Transformation that references an existing fact sheet does not cause the referenced fact sheet to be archived (in my test, the existing fact sheet had lots of other data and relationships).Muy question is: What are the rules defining when fact sheets referenced by Transformations are auto-archived as part of deleting the Transformation? e.g. is it related to lifecycle dates or other data on the referenced fact sheet.Thanks

22 hours ago

greg.trudellLeanIX Team

The Americas User Group

Boston Customer Community Event Recap

Hi all,This past Tuesday July 16th we held our Regional Customer Community event in the LeanIX office in Watertown.During the day of networking, knowledge sharing, and deep dives into relevant topics the attendees were active in interacting amongst themselves and with our presenters.We had some great presentations from our Product Management team on our AI Roadmap. From our Professional Services team we saw outstanding content around AI Governance and how to do that inside LeanIX.During the discussion sessions we had some great roundtable back and forth about Product Adoption, Dashboards, and Architecture Decisions.It was a fantastic event and hope to see everyone in the New England area attending a future event!

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23 hours ago

GauthierHere To Stay

French-speaking User Group

alignement de vocabulaire et metamodel

Bonjour la communauté !!En discutant avec nos Staff+ Engineers et en lisant plusieurs articles dans la presse, je vois arriver un alignement de vocabulaire autour de Systems, containers, composants.C’est par exemple illustré dans cet article :https://nikolaschou.medium.com/a-new-software-architecture-metamodel-inspired-by-c4-agile-and-togaf-b3f21ab9848Et également décrit dans le C4 Model : https://c4model.com/abstractions Avez-vous aligné votre metamodel vers ces notions, si oui comment, et sinon pourquoi ? @LeanIX Team : cette nomenclature étant de plus en plus utilisée par les staff+, notamment dans un contexte d’organisation produit et d’agilité, comment prenez-vous en compte cela ? Allez-vous vers une modification du metamodel. ?merci d’avance pour vos retours !!

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1 day ago

ChristiaanRookie

Academy & Best Practices

Calculated Field on Application–Organization Relation Not Appearing as Target in Calculation Setup

Hi LeanIX Community,I'm trying to implement a cost allocation model using custom fields and calculations, but I’ve run into an issue. Scenario:I’ve created a custom field (Application Cost) on the Application Fact Sheet (type: Double, displayed as Cost), and I also have a field (Number of Users) on the Application–Organization relation. The idea is to calculate the proportional cost per organization, based on how many users are using the application within each connected organization. Example:Application cost: €50,000/yearOrg A: 700 usersOrg B: 5 usersOrg C: 300 users→ Total = 1005 users I want to calculate a new value (e.g. Chargeback) on the Application–Organization relation as:(application cost / total number of users) × users per orgIssue:I created a new Double field on the Application–Organization relation to store the Chargeback value, but when I try to create a Calculation in the Admin interface, this field doesn’t appear as a selectable target — even though it is visible, activ

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2 days ago

abhinavrajputRookie

Application Portfolio Management

What is the best practice for mapping Application Fact Sheet?

We need to address four key scenarios within the Application Fact Sheet:Versions Instances Environments ModulesWhat would be the best practice to map these scenarios?I am considering the use of Application Subtypes — namely Business Application, Deployment, and Microservices (Application Modeling Guidelines | SAP Help Portal) — to represent these scenarios.Please confirm the following: If I utilize these subtypes, would they count towards the total number of applications under our current licensing model, especially if they are not linked to Business Capabilities? Additionally, by using these subtypes, would I be able to comprehensively map the application's relationships across the entire IT landscape — including IT Components, Data Objects, Interfaces, and Technology Categories?

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3 days ago

Vlad

Asia-Pacific User Group

Automating sync with Signavio for multiple dictionary mappings

Hello!In order to integrate multiple elements between LeanIX and Signavio, we have configured multiple Dictionary Category Mappings in the config settings. Aside from the ‘basic’ SAP Signavio processes to LeanIX, we also have:LeanIX applications to Signavio dictionary Signavio process to LeanIX application relation SAP LeanIX Organisation to Signavio dictionary SAP LeanIX Business Capability to Signavio dictionary Signavio process to LeanIX Business Capability relationCurrently we sync them manually as needed but would like to automate this. How can we schedule the different mappings synchronisation, in the right order, so that they don’t result in conflict or undesired behaviours and so that they run automatically in the selected sequential order?Example: if I archive an app in LeanIX that is linked to a Signavio process, I want to sync apps to Signavio dictionary first, because that removes the app (if using overwrite or conservative sync). If the process x application relation sync

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9 days ago

Gagan pathintiLeanIX Team

Application Portfolio Management

Think Pace Layering: To prioritize and balance the stability and innovation within your Enterprise architecture

In recent years, we have produced numerous blog posts, white-papers, and webinars on the topic of typical assessment approaches used with LeanIX: PACE, TIME & 6RWith this new blog series, we want to take you through this subject step-by-step and help you understand and apply these approaches and further complement our documentation. FundamentalsPace layering – a concept that challenges conventional thinking and provides a structured approach to thrive amidst continuous transformation journeys. Pace layering is not just another buzzword, but a fundamental strategy that can allow businesses to prioritize IT investments and resources based on the needs of each layer.Pace Layering methodology is used in LeanIX EAM to classify business capabilities based on strategic value and pace of change. It enables the development of enterprise architecture strategies for each layer to effectively balance stability, agility, and innovation.Pace Layering facilitates informed decision-making during

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10 days ago

Micki FRookie

The Americas User Group

TIME Surveys

Our organization has completed the first round of functional and technical surveys in order to calculate TIME. Before we do our second round, we would like to vet our survey questions. For those doing TIME, did you use the TIME survey template in LeanIX? If not, how did you determine which questions to ask to gather functional and technical fit? Did you create your own survey questions or did you work with a professional company to determine the survey questions? What other things did you do to gain confidence in the questions and that you were getting true functional and technical fit responses? Thank you for your help!

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Best Practices for Assigning External App IDs During Initial Excel Import into LeanIX

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geoffrey.lowneyVeteran

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When does deleting a Transformation result in other fact sheets being archived?

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ChristiaanRookie

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Calculated Field on Application–Organization Relation Not Appearing as Target in Calculation Setup

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Vlad

Asia-Pacific User Group

Automating sync with Signavio for multiple dictionary mappings

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Micki FRookie

The Americas User Group

TIME Surveys

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JamorosRookie

Application Portfolio Management

external business owner

Hello everyone. A multinational company has sold one of its factories, which for a while will be using the multinational's applications, provided as a service with exclusive data from the now external factory. Does anyone know if, in this case, the Business Owner can be a person from the new external company?

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14 days ago

Przemek MalirzRookie

Application Portfolio Management

Reusable Custom Field Types

Hi All,Do you know how I could create a custom field type that can be reused in multiple places.Giving you my example. I have to create a single select (enum) “Protocol” field with values like FTP, HTTP, RMI, etc. Obviously I want to use the same field in many places for instance on both ways of an Interface.Thank youPrzemek

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16 days ago

Steen JensenRoyalty For Loyalty

SAP LeanIX Developers

Is there a simple way to script bulk changes

We have some areas where we need to update static information.Is there possibility to use on-line script instead of current excel work:1. export to Excel,2. script in Excel for needed changes,3. then import excel to LeanIX

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27 days ago

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

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2 months ago

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

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