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Santosh_leanXUserSophomore
 Application Portfolio Management
How to Approach APLM: Starting with the Right Fields

Hello LeanIX Community 👋I’m currently working on Application Portfolio Lifecycle Management (APLM) and one of the most important steps I’ve found is to get the field model right before diving into deeper analysis or tool automation. To begin with - I’m going with below but, at this point I’m underconfident - given the new role. NameApplication StatusApplication TypeBudget OwnerFunctional OwnerBusiness CriticalityDescriptionHosting TypePerson ResponsiblesubtypeLifecycleBusiness CapabilitiesFunction User GroupGeography User GroupFunctional FitStrategic Application TypeTIME ClassificationTIME Classification DescriptionQuestion for the community: Which fields have been the most useful or impactful in your APLM journey? What do you think of above fields - good enough? Are there any fields you started with but later dropped as unnecessary noise? How did you drive cross-team agreement on field definitions? Looking forward to learning from your experiences. 

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Stephan Hofmann
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EricSophomore
 It's all about Community
Where did you (all) start?

Hi everyone,as I already mentioned in my personal introduction, I`m a freshman, so I hope that question doesn`t reach to far.Where did you start, as you started with LeanIX (EA)? (I hope the following thoughts narrow down a bit what I mean.)I understood, that you should start with Business Capabilities - which kind of makes sense. In the second step, you connect the application landscape to these business capabilities. Now to the…. First question: I read, that todays approach in EA is more agile (project by project). Means for me, you shouldn`t create that monster map, that shows “all” the dependencies and connections between business and IT. Is that correct?So have you generated your first content by joining a first project (e.g. new application XY) and then iteratively grew your EA by continuing that “process” (project by project by project)? Or have you at least started with the core applications or something similar? Second question:How “deep” your information is defined (by partit

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carmen.gutiSophomore
 Spanish-speaking User Group
¿Qué perfiles forman vuestro equipo de EA y quién se encarga de LeanIX?

Cada empresa organiza de forma distinta sus equipos de EA y la gestión de LeanIX.🤔 Algunas preguntas para abrir debate:¿Qué perfiles forman parte de vuestro equipo de EA? ¿Quién se encarga del día a día de LeanIX: un arquitecto dedicado, varios arquitectos repartidos, o incluso perfiles de negocio/IT? ¿Tenéis “lecciones aprendidas” o recomendaciones sobre lo que funciona y lo que no?Me encantaría conocer cómo lo tenéis organizado y qué aprendizajes podéis compartir. Seguro que ayuda a quienes están en fases iniciales. 💡 

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carmen.gutiSophomore
 Spanish-speaking User Group
¿Cómo gestionáis las interfaces en LeanIX?

En mi equipo estamos trabajando con la entidad Interface en LeanIX y nos hemos encontrado con varios retos:🔹 Nomenclatura: ¿Cómo nombrarlas para que sean fáciles de identificar y al mismo tiempo legibles cuando aparecen en los diagramas?🔹 Volumen: Algunas aplicaciones pueden tener decenas de interfaces, lo que hace que registrarlas y mantenerlas al día sea un esfuerzo muy grande.🔹 Consistencia: Cuando cada responsable registra solo las interfaces de “su” aplicación, sin alinearse con la aplicación con la que se conecta, corremos el riesgo de tener duplicidades o desajustes.🤔 ¿Cómo lo gestionáis vosotros en vuestras organizaciones?¿Usáis convenciones de nombres estándar? ¿Definís roles claros para quién crea y mantiene las interfaces? ¿O simplificáis y solo registráis las más relevantes?Estoy segura de que no somos los únicos con esta dificultad y que compartir experiencias aquí nos puede ayudar a todos. 💡

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carmen.gutiSophomore
 Spanish-speaking User Group
¿Cómo utilizáis el concepto de Platform en LeanIX?

Uno de los conceptos que suele generar más dudas en LeanIX es el de Platform.🤔 ¿Qué entendemos por Platform exactamente?¿Un sistema operativo como Windows o Linux? ¿Un servicio de base de datos en la nube como AWS RDS? ¿Una suite de productos como Salesforce o SAP?En mi experiencia, hay un poco de confusión sobre cómo usar esta entidad y cómo diferenciarla de Applications o IT Components.👉 Me interesa mucho saber cómo lo modeláis vosotros:¿Qué criterios utilizáis para decidir qué entra como Platform? ¿Qué beneficios habéis encontrado en modelarlo bien? ¿Os ha ayudado a sacar más valor en reporting o racionalización?Creo que este tema puede ayudarnos a estandarizar prácticas y aprovechar mejor la potencia del metamodelo. 💡

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HimanshuRookie
 Application Portfolio Management
Application mastering in LeanIX & sending it to ServiceNow

Hi In my organization, we master applications in ServiceNow where Architects set up an application & multiple teams (Product, Support etc.) enhance the application with relevant details.We are working to pivot to LeanIX where Architects master the application in LeanIX, send the application to ServiceNow & other teams carry on enhancing the application.I am assuming we are not the first one doing such a change. I wish to connect & learn from LeanIX users who have done such a change in the past & if at all this is a good idea!Please share your experience on the journey & any best practices you recommend. ThanksHimanshu

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VivekVardhanRookie
 Academy & Best Practices
Unable to login into demo workspace

Dear Community,I’m looking for a quick help. I’m unable to reset my password for the demo workspace provided. I’ve tried resetting the password but I’m not getting any email for password reset.Kindly note that I’m able to login into the actual tool and able to launch Academy from there.I’m also unable to update my email id in the academy profile. I am giving the same password which I logged in into the tool, but that isn’t working. 

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Stephan Hofmann
LeanIX Team
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Pierre L.Rookie
 French-speaking User Group
Modélisation des TMA (coût échéances..) ?

Bonjour à tous,Je suis encore dans mes 20 prémiers jours à LeanIX et j’ai donc grand besoin de vous ! :)et je suis challenger par le DSI sur la vision « partielle » que propose les rapports sur le coùt des applications.En effet, les rapports par défaut exploitent le coût porter par la relation entre application et composant, il me semble.Donc j’ai renseigner sur ce lien les coûts de licences (ex SalesForce) ou d’hébergement.Mais donc il manquerait le coût de la TMA (prestataire gérant la maintenance de nos applications).Je m’interroge sur la meilleure manière de le modéliser ces informations (a minima :nom du fournisseur, date fin contrat, coût annuel).Dois-je modifier le métamodel pour ajouter des attributs sur la fiche « application » ?Dois-je créer une nouvelle type de fiche, comme me le suggérer ChatGPT ?Dois-je modéliser la « TMA » comme un composant de type service ?Es ce que LeanIx n’est juste pas l’outil pour ce type de question (éloigné de l’EA).Je vous avoue que modifier le m

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GauthierHere To Stay
 French-speaking User Group
Business Capability - Masterdata management

Bonjour,Nous sommes en train d’adopter le Business Reference Catalog de LeanIX pour définir notre Business Capability Map.Si d’un point de vue métier ça semble répondre très bien à notre société, je me pose néanmoins des questions concernant les capacités de gestion des Masterdatas. En ce qui nous concerne, par exemple, les produits-articles et services, les Business Partners (Magasins, entrepôts, usines..) , les composants d’un produit, etc.. Donc une capacité de support, très cross dans l’entreprise car la data est utilisée partout.Mes questions, si vous avez mis en place cette Capability Map basée sur la Business Reference catalog de LeanIx  : Avez-vous identifié une BC dédiée à la gestion de ces Masterdata? Que pensez-vous de la BC “Asset Management / Asset Information Management / Asset Data and Information Management” qui a pour définition : Ability to maintain and archive asset master, transactional, time series, and events data. It also involves the same management of business

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hugo.barbaraRookie
 It's all about Community
Connect GraphQL to Power BI - Custom Fields

Hello everyone, how are you?!I saw in this post Connecting GraphiQL to PowerBI that it was possible to retrieve inventory information through code in Power Query. I can retrieve some fields, as in the example, but when I try to retrieve custom fields, the code returns errors.Expression.Error: The 'data' field of the record was not found.Details:errors=[List]Has anyone else experienced this? How can I fix it?

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NarzeusNabarteyRookie
 SAP LeanIX Developers
Technical User Creation

Good Day. I would like to know if there is a way on how to create technical programmatically?Use case: We are trying to automate many queries and mutations vie pipeline and central hub. The token that technical user provided will be stored inside or in a vault. We don’t want anyone to see the token that is being created.Is there a way for this?

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ruelRookie
 SAP LeanIX Onboarding
MTA API Swagger/OpenAPI explorer blank

https://app.leanix.net/openapi-explorer/?urls.primaryName=MTMHi, why is the MTM API documentation blank?  

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roben_n4Rookie
 Application Portfolio Management
Reclassify applications to IT components

Hi everyone,We’re currently undertaking an initiative to review and reclassify our LeanIX inventory. During this process, we’ve identified a number of fact sheets currently classified as Applications that may be more appropriately categorized as IT Components.While we’ve reviewed the definitions provided in the LeanIX documentation, we’d really appreciate hearing from the community:What criteria do you use to distinguish between an Application and an IT Component? Are there any practical examples or decision frameworks you’ve found helpful?Additionally, for those who have gone through a similar reclassification effort:Did you manually create new IT Component fact sheets, or did you find the Export/Import method more efficient? Any lessons learned or pitfalls to avoid?Thanks in advance for your insights and experiences.  

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Postie MikeRookie
 Asia-Pacific User Group
Calculation - Can you update a custom field within a calculation

Does LeanIX support setting the value of a custom field from within a calculation?I’ve a routine that calculates data sensitivity correctly and is working but would now like to record when the last sensitivity calculation ran.My code is:// Set the date that this calculation was performeddata.DataSensitivityDateUpdated = Date();Where DataSensitivityDateUpdated is the custom field and Date() is presumed to return the current date.The Calculation runs without error, but the custom DataSensitivityDateUpdated field is not updated.Is the return statement the only way for a Calculation to update a field?

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isabelatrindade
isabelatrindadeRookie
 SAP LeanIX Developers
Recovering Diagrams/Dashboards/Reporting

Is it possible to recover a deleted diagram, report, or dashboard?

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EAM_sapuser
 SAP LeanIX Developers
Record limit of Odata API url

I have a saved search that I am able to call via the odata URL from postman. But the response is limited to 100 records. How to increase that? There is no documentation regarding pagination, size or record limit anywhere.

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Didier.Nowak
Didier.NowakVeteran
 Application Portfolio Management
Linking applications, business capabilities and user groups

Dear community,We are currently trying to document how our applications are deployed, from a geographical and from a capability perspective. Of our our application factsheet type has a relationship to user groups and to business capabilities.What becomes tricky is that some applications might cover several business capabilities level 2, but not in an identical way (yet) in all locations. I had a quick look at the configuration options and I couldn’t find a way to represent that in leanIX.For example, application A covers business capabilities BC1 , BC2 and BC3, and is deployed in France, Germany, Italy.But A covers BC1, BC2, BC3 in Germany. But only BC1 , BC2 in France. And BC1 in Italy.How would you model that? 

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NarzeusNabarteyRookie
 SAP LeanIX Developers
GraphQL mutations for Meta Model Configurations

Is graphql mutations possible on meta model configurations? like changing the name of the fields?

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isabelatrindade
isabelatrindadeRookie
 SAP LeanIX Developers
Bookmarks webhook

I am looking to manage bookmark creation/updates, visualizations, and sharing. Is there any webhook event available that is triggered by these actions?

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Thomas Schreiner
carmen.guti
carmen.gutiSophomore
 Spanish-speaking User Group
¿Desde dónde nos conectamos?

¿Desde qué país o ciudad te unes a este grupo?¿Y en qué tipo de organización trabajas (empresa privada, consultora, administración pública…)?Cuéntanos brevemente si ya usas LeanIX, en qué estás trabajando actualmente o qué te gustaría aprender.¡No hace falta escribir mucho! Solo queremos empezar a conocernos y saber quién está al otro lado 😊Yo ya he dejado mi presentación en los comentarios. ¿Te animas tú también?

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carmen.guti
carmen.gutiSophomore
 Spanish-speaking User Group
¿Cómo definimos qué es una aplicación en LeanIX?

Una de las preguntas más difíciles cuando empezamos a modelar en LeanIX es qué consideramos realmente una aplicación.No siempre hay un criterio único y claro. Por ejemplo: ¿Es Excel una aplicación en sí misma o solo lo son las soluciones que se construyen sobre él? Con la llegada de agentes de IA como Copilot, ¿deberíamos considerar cada agente como una aplicación independiente? ¿Qué criterios usáis vosotros para decidir y mantener coherencia en casos complejos? Me encantaría conocer cómo lo gestionáis en vuestras organizaciones. ¿Habéis definido una regla clara en el metamodelo o lo resolvéis caso por caso?Este tema parece pequeño, pero afecta a todo: calidad del catálogo, reporting y comunicación con negocio. ¡Seguro que entre todos podemos sacar buenas prácticas!

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PaulFilRookie
 The Americas User Group
Setting the standard relToParent relation with GraphQL

I am looking for an example of a proper HTTP GraphQL API call to set Parent relation for a fact sheet.

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Thomas Schreiner
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GaneshSophomore
 The Americas User Group
Dashboards in Portal

I want to show a dashboard I have created on the portal which then can be embedded into a webpage that can be viewed by all who have access to Leanix. Can this be done?Or How do I share a viewable form of the dashboard without going into Leanix?

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chetannayaksRookie
 Asia-Pacific User Group
Dealing with external systems that integrate with our product

 Our product integrates with many systems that are external to us using API’s. I’m curious to know how people are modelling external systems, are you calling them as Applications? We want to use the power for circle reports within LeanIx and the only this is possible is to declare external systems as applications and our product itself as an application so we can showcase the interface between them and list all the API’s being used between the two systems. I was wondering if there are other ways to do the same thing without declaring external system as applications and still be able to generate circle map reports and interface reports? 

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DianaSRookie
 It's all about Community
Best Practices for Managing Quality Seals on Completed LeanIX Initiatives

We track initiatives in LeanIX and currently configure quality seals to expire after three months of inactivity, aligning with our quarterly project reviews. This approach works well for active projects, but we’ve noticed that completed initiatives also lose their quality seals over time. We want to preserve the history of these projects without requiring users to manually maintain seals on inactive or completed initiatives.I’m interested in hearing how other companies handle this situation. Are there best practices for maintaining historical quality seals on completed projects while minimizing unnecessary user intervention?

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