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47 Topics

irene.bakanakis
LeanIX Team
irene.bakanakisLeanIX Team
published in Application Portfolio Management

Application Portfolio Assessment - How to?

What should be your next steps for implementing an Application Portfolio Assessment with LeanIX? Step 1: Define the scope of the assessmentThe first step in conducting an APA is to define the scope of the assessment. This involves identifying the applications and systems that will be reviewed to ensure they align with your organization's goals and objectives. With LeanIX, you can easily filter and group your applications based on various criteria, such as business owners, technology domains, or criticality.Step 2: Collect and analyze dataOnce you have identified the applications and systems to be assessed, you need to collect data on each application, including its usage, cost, complexity, and alignment with your organization's goals. The data can be collected from various sources, such as IT service management tools, spreadsheets, or application owners. Once you have gathered the data, you can use the LeanIX Application Portfolio Management module to analyze the data and generate insi

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irene.bakanakis
LeanIX Team
1 year ago
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kalebberhaRookie
asked in Application Portfolio Management

PowerPoint Slides/Content For Creating Fact Sheets, Updating them, etc?

Hi Everyone,At my organization, we are currently undergoing an an effort to get our Application Inventory completely up to date with the rest of our IT department. We have selected some users to represent their team/business area when it comes to LeanIX and provide lists of the applications they use. I was wondering if there was any PowerPoint content that LeanIX has published would be helpful to present to users as far as teaching them how to create fact sheets, updating quality seal, going through each section of an Application fact sheet, adding relationships to other fact sheet types, etc. Does anyone know of any content like that exists? I would love to be pointed in that direction. Thanks!

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1 day ago
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AndiWRookie
asked in Application Portfolio Management

IT Component Inventory View: Obsolescence Risk Status and Description

Hi there, I was wondering if there is a way in the IT Component table view to see the Obsolescence Risk Status and Obsolescence Risk Description associated with the consuming Application for an IT component.  The reason I ask is that we would like to be able to bulk update these where appropriate, rather than having to go into each application's individual relationship with the IT component and edit it.  Is this something that is only available with the TRM module?  To bulk load or edit this data please?

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Justin Swift
2 days ago
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kalebberhaRookie
asked in Application Portfolio Management

Best Training for Application Owners in LeanIX Academy?

Hi everyone, We are currently undergoing adoption efforts at our organization, and wanted to know from all of your perspectives what, if at all, would be the best training in the academy for users just joining or seeing LeanIX for the first time should take? Do you all have ideas on what certifications would be best? Thanks!

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Thomas Schreiner
11 days ago
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Paco QuirozHere To Stay
asked in Application Portfolio Management

Importing Application to Business Context with a Constraint Relation

Hello all,We’re in the process of uploading an application inventory for a new Business Organization.All Organizations share the same Business Capabilities Architectures. Although some organizations might use different Business Process coverage for the same application. For example: This example requires that App A’s Relation to Process A is applicable only for Org A (same for App B for Org B).We can specify that doing it FactSheet by FactSheet. The question is: Is it possible to do it using the import template? I was not able to see any relation attribute to specify it when exporting an application with this feature…Factsheet screenshot: Exported file ThanksPaco

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14 days ago
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RanjeetaRookie
asked in Application Portfolio Management

Include "Date created" and "Date mapped" fields in factsheet search results

We are looking into reporting metrics on specific factsheets data, and in that, one of the key attributes is when the factsheet (Factsheet A) got created (date created) and when it gets mapped to another factsheet (date mapped to Factsheet B). While the date created and date mapped are available as part of the audit information, they are not available to include in search results. Can these be configured to expose for search, atleast between Factsheet A and Factsheet B?

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14 days ago
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mtrenRookie
asked in Application Portfolio Management

Modelling Interfaces with multiple lookup to other applications

I’m struggling with how to best represent interfaces that make calls to multiple applications to prepare a dataset to provide to a consumer application. My scenario is as followsApplication A initiates a push of data to Application B The above is implemented in our ESB/Middleware (Mulesoft in our case) Additional data from Application C is merged with the Application A data ESB pushes merged dataset into Application BRepresenting a single application to application interface via an ESB is OK, follows the LeanIX Modelling guidelines. I’m just stuck as to how to best represent this scenario as this will make up a significant majority of our interfaces. Any help would be appreciated

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15 days ago
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Tim PRookie
posted in Application Portfolio Management

ETL Flows

Hi, We have all app interfaces in Leanix but I was wandering: Did anyone also model/describe their ETL data interfaces in Leanix? Do you create interface factsheets for them too? How do you do this then? Are there best practices?Thanks in advance for the feedback!Tim 

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Justin Swift
15 days ago
Paulo Vilar
Paulo VilarSophomore
asked in Application Portfolio Management

Quality seal is igored during import

Hi,I’m trying to set the quality seal for a number of Interfaces but the field is not updated.Is there a way to do it without going one by one? Thanks

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Paulo Vilar
18 days ago
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ChristinaRookie
asked in Application Portfolio Management

Cost Report on Provider Basis

Dear all,we are currently diving into a very basic cost overview.One of the basic reports are focusing on the provider, which is in general fine. As providers are only connected to the IT components in the meta model and not the Application itself I need to assign all IT components (which all have the  costs on them) to the provider again. That seems not a big issue for SaaS solutions (mostly there is just one IT component), but for on prem solutions / applications there can be maaaany IT components.To be honest: My application owners will be lost if they have to add that information to providers and the applications. ;)Do you guys have any hands on solution or automation in place for this issue? Thanks and best,Christina

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ian.gilmour
22 days ago
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Swamy LekkalaRookie
asked in Application Portfolio Management

Quality Seal broke

Hi All, I received an email from: IT LeanIX with “subject  : There are 1 new changes in your workspace SiemensProd “ saying that with one of my application commented Quality seal broke. I am complete new to this topic and have no knowledge on this. can anyone help on this topic. Thanks in advance.

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Didier.Nowak
23 days ago
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LusheezRookie
asked in Application Portfolio Management

Handle version history without overloading Application factsheets

Hello everyone,We would like to envision how to handle versioning in LeanIX correctly. There is the Release field in the Application factsheet type, but in my company we have the need to track several versions of one applications because we have parallel versions.Let’s say we have three applications A, B and CWe have for A:V1.0.1 installed at site 1V1.0.6 installed at site 2V2.0.0 installed at site 3For B:V8.0.0 at site 1V9.2.0 at site 3For C:V5.0.1 at site 2At any time, another version of C could ​be instal​​​​led at site 3 and it could be different than the one from site 2 so we have a need to track it also.We could clone three times the Application factsheet for A, two times for B, and change the release field but that seems inefficient. Also if one of the shared field (the description, or the Application Owner, or anything else) change, we’d have to edit every factsheet manually. That is also inefficient. I had thought first to create another factsheet type to represent the Version

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1 month ago
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Nicolas P.Rookie
asked in Application Portfolio Management

Whether and how to model virtual servers for applications

Hi.Any on-premise application (let’s call one here ABC) is typically hosted on one or several physical or virtual servers (let’s have here 2 virtual servers SRV123 and SRV456). These servers have often but not always the same OS (let’s say here Windows Server 2019 for both SRV123 and SRV456) and different purposes with different components (let’s say here SRV123 is the web application server with IIS 10.0 and SRV456 the database server with SQL Server 2019). They also run on different pieces of hardware or a single one (let’s say here that SRV123 and SRV456 run on 2 different Dell PowerEdge R550 Rack Server units).In my example, Application ABC would have relations with the following IT Components in LeanIX:Software: Microsoft Windows Server 2019 + Microsoft IIS 10.0 + Microsoft SQL Server 2019, Hardware: Dell PowerEdge R550 Rack Server.But SRV123 and SRV456 servers actually appear nowhere in this model:Of course, they’re not Applications, They could be IT Components, but none of the s

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1 month ago
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eric.jerskeyRookie
asked in Application Portfolio Management

Modeling Organization for Applications used by everyone?

Does anyone have any advice on how best to model an Organization-Application linkage for Apps that are used by everyone in the organization? I’m thinking I’d want to create a Level 1 Organization (subtype=BU) to represent all employees of the organization generically. If there’s a specific team or region of users where that application has a distinct functional fit that needs to be called out, then we would add those as additional organizations. I think that should give us flexibility to provide insight into different usage perspectives for those shared services, but curious to know what approaches others have taken.

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1 month ago
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SCMPURRookie
asked in Application Portfolio Management

Visualizing Options Assessment

Hello Community,has anyone experience with dealing of options assessment results in LeanIX?Le me explain in more detail:You are dealing with lots of Business Capabilities in LeanIX (amount n) and due to best of breed you have same amount (n) of applications in the portfolio.On the other hand you know about an application supporting more than one business capability - an integrated solution. How to visualize the option that this integrated solution (not implemented only based on capabilities) is providing as it might be the successor for multiple active applications!The successor attribute is too hard wired for this because we are talking about an option and curently there is no initiative planned/release.How would you deal with this requirement in LeanIX (or is LeanIX the wrong tool for something like this)? Best RegardsThomas

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Thomas Schreiner
1 month ago
Olivier C.
Olivier C.Rookie
asked in Application Portfolio Management

Integration API - How update and not create a factsheet?

Hi,I use integration API and processor to synchronize external systems with LeanIX, especially the inboundFactSheet processor type. The default behavior of this processor is to identify if the factsheet already exist (usage of the externalId) and update it or create it if it doesn’t exist.But I don’t know if it’s possible to update it only and not to create it if it doesn’t exist?Thanks for your help.Olivier C.

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Thomas Schreiner
1 month ago
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s.amitRookie
asked in Application Portfolio Management

Application Lifecycle

Whom to contact about this application lifecycle. Suddenly the application is marked as phaseout without any notification, and there is no one to contact.

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Thomas Schreiner
1 month ago
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ploeRookie
asked in Application Portfolio Management

Portal: Advanced Settings Reference docs?

Does anyone know where I can find reference documentation on the Advanced tab for Portals?Portal (leanix.net) - this provides awareness that it exists, but I cannot seem to find any documentation referencing the valid JSON structure or values.

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Thomas Schreiner
1 month ago
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Tore VångeRookie
asked in Application Portfolio Management

Portal - Add functionality to the "Request application"

Hi We are doing a bit of discovery into the portal now, and have an idea, at this stage, to smooth out the process for end-users needing access to an application. Has anyone used the “Request Application” to anything useful? Currently - it simply points to the documentation for the self-service portal - I have a few ideas to either trigger a request in ServiceNOW, either by prepopulating an email running through the think-automate, or using Power Automate to streamline the process to get access to an application. Has anyone done something similar and would be generous enough to share some insights? BRTore

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1 month ago
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Srihari Krishna VankadariRookie
asked in Application Portfolio Management

How to model Power Apps Applications which are being used by smaller community and supports single capabilities?

How to model Power Apps applications in LeanIX as they are huge in number and might consume license numbers but these applications are used locally which supports single capabilities?

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1 month ago
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EileenDRookie
asked in Application Portfolio Management

Is anybody using LeanIX to respond to the Digital Operational Resilience Act?

Hi All - we’re a european financial institution, looking to respond the the mapping and identification requirements of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).  Is anyone using LeanIX in their solutioning for this use case?

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1 month ago
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MMurrayRookie
asked in Application Portfolio Management

Tracking multiple divisions migrating from interface 1.0 to interface 2.0 at different times

Hello All! We have multiple business divisions using a single interface (Interface 1.0) today.A new interface (Interface 2.0) is being deployed and it is expected that the divisions will migrate to the new interface (2.0) over time and sequenced.What is the best way to track and report on the progress of the migration of divisions over time?I have added a new relation to the Interface factsheet for User Group factsheets. This seems to provide the necessary tracking and reporting based on the Active From and Active Until relation data. The same Provider application is providing the interface to consuming applications. Just wanted to ask the community to see if there are any other ideas out there or any concerns with adding this new relationship to the factsheet. Regards,Mark

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2 months ago
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SHCRookie
asked in Application Portfolio Management

Field level restriction for edit and view

Hello, In LeanIX EAM, how can we control attributes/fields from view or edit for certain users?For example, only admin can change an attribute value for certain attribute(s). Best regards,SHC

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2 months ago
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silviagomezRookie
asked in Application Portfolio Management

Portal: How to add a Diagram to the Factsheet detailed view

Hello,In my company, for the Business Context/process factsheet, we add as a resource type the related BP diagram. We do it under tab resources, select Diagram ( Link, File , Diagram options available) and then select the Free Draw diagram we want to assign to the factsheet.In the BP portal, in the detailed section, we would like display the link to the Diagram assigned to that Business Context/process Factsheet. It seems that only resources added under “Link” can be shown in the Portal.Does anybody know how to add a Diagram so it can be displayed detailed section of an Factsheet in the Portal?Cheers, Silvia

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3 months ago
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João AntonioRookie
asked in Application Portfolio Management

My company wants to implement it, but I still have doubts

Hello, my company intends to implement the LeanIX tool, but we still have some questions about how the platform works and some questions like: how long does the implementation take (months? Years?), what type of integration does it have with Signavio? Is there any difficulty in the implementation? Is the platform itself automated, or is it quite manual (data processing and analysis, report completion, etc.)?

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3 months ago

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