Application Portfolio Management

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!

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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.)?

We’ve 100+ use cases for our company for 2024 roadmap. We are yet to finalize which application/vendor to choose. How do we put these use cases in LeanIX? I am using Business Product for now.

WIth current Metamodel v 4, can same object be part of several different FactSheets?I.e SharePoint and ServiceNow is both Strategic Platforms and Tech Platforms and Applications at same time. or should thay only be part of ONE FactSheet only?

Hi all,I am doing my first steps in LeanIx but somehow im stuck.I have added two bidirectional self-relations on organizations from LE to Region and from LE to Business-Unit. I am using MM 4.0 and I know that there is something in the works regarding modelling subtypes. “self-relations” are possible, but already with the configuration of labels etc. it feels “inconvenient”.Use-Case: I want to create a simple matrix report that shows the LEs (cells) by Regions (X-axis) and Business-Units(Y-Axis)Problem: I do not have the newly created relations in the x/y-axis settings of the matrix report. I cannot choose “Regions” or “Business Unit” for y and x axis.Since this is conceptually and technically relatively clear to me, I wonder if this “works as designed” or if I am missing something.Thanks, Sebastian.

Hi all,we try to identify redundant appliaction by a kind of application class or category. This categories are no it categories, so we don’t want to use the TBM framework, it is more business like. Examples for these categories are ERP systems, workflow tools, office solutions, etc. Has anybody an idea, if there is an standard framework for these kind of categories which we can reuse and how we implement these requirement within LeanIX EA?This dimension would be an important crtieria additional to business capabilities and tech category, to rationalisize our portfolio. 

I don’t find in Busines capabilities map, capability for Field (retire) actions. You now the way how to?Thanks a lotEduard

Hi Everyone,I have a question and ofcourse I could create a support ticket for that. As the topic is not too urgent and I wanted to start a topic in community therefore, I thought about posting it here.The topic is the following: for relations we have the possibility to deliberately select, “Leave Empty” and this contributes to the overall completion score of a factsheet (if applicable).Is there a possibility to import relations via excel on multilple factsheets (say application) as “Leave Empty” instead of manually maintaining it?  I hope I can get some positive answers. Thank you in advance.  Best regards.

Hello, Our management are very interesting to have a view of Cost of each application. Costing modelization are quite complexe … some application are CAPEX some are OPEX … some have shared ressources (and shared cost).Who have do something interesting on the “cost” application topic ?  

In the fact sheet: Application, what is the definition and examples of successors and predecessors?

Hi Team,I want to check if following use-case is possible to implement in LeanIX for application assessment. 1. Initiate TIME survey in LeanIX. Participants will fill up survey and we would get functional fit and technical fit values.2. Collate/aggregate/average all survey results for particular application and create average values for functional fit & technical fit3. Based on above values suggest 4R classificationout of the above steps I could create 1st step and I could get individual participant's average score for functional fit & tech fit. But I need to know if I can calculate average score from multiple survey's functional & tech fit scores.