What is the best way to represent the data flow with external companies. Let say I have an application A and that application gets its data from a company C. So there exists an interface between C and A. However since C is a company (with that company having an application for sending data) outside of our scope, it should not be represented as an application in LeanIX, however this information is quite interesting to know. So what would be the best way to represent such an scenario on LeanIX?
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Best way to represent data flow with external companies?
Best answer by GiannisAnt
Hello,
I think the two most common options are:
External Applications: Modeled either as a subtype or as children under and external application fact sheet.
It components: X Company Y tool-data: which will be shown by drill down.
I suggest the use of the Deployment subtype here under and external application parent fact sheet. Since LeanIX does not want to give more extensive functions in Interface capturing, it’s only fair to use deployments to represent external systems.
+1Hello,
I think the two most common options are:
External Applications: Modeled either as a subtype or as children under and external application fact sheet.
It components: X Company Y tool-data: which will be shown by drill down.
I suggest the use of the Deployment subtype here under and external application parent fact sheet. Since LeanIX does not want to give more extensive functions in Interface capturing, it’s only fair to use deployments to represent external systems.
+2Hi
here are our best practice to model esternal applications
https://docs-eam.leanix.net/docs/application-modeling-guidelines#modeling-external-applications
https://docs-eam.leanix.net/docs/deployment-modeling-guidelines
Have a great day.
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