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Hi LeanIX Community, My team and I are working on a survey, but our users are currently not receiving the email invitations to participate. Could you please help us determine if there is any specific information we may be missing or provide any guidance on how to resolve this issue? We appreciate your support and any assistance you can provide. Thank you,Aby 

Hello everyone -I’m new to LeanIX community and I did search to see if there was a similar question asked and didn’t find anything. Let me give some context before I ask the question: I am a business architect in a health insurance company that sells different types of health insurance “Products’. I’m documenting value streams, using Business Context fact sheets, across the organization and then linking Applications, which have their dependencies on the IT components. There are certain value streams that are either specific to a “Product” or multiple Products. Similarly there could be Applications that would be used for a specific Product. I need to create “Product-Specific” views in LeanIX. For example, I need to answer following questions:Which Applications support Product A? Give me a view of Product B value streams and the related Applications and IT Components? Here are my questions:How can I best associate specific Products against value streams and applications? Would “Tags” be

I am running into a scenario where we would like to use TIME with IT Components, along with our Applications. I am thinking of a scenario where we might have several components in a Tech Category, and we want to Technology Rationalize down to a reasonable number.  Using the TIME classifications would be a big help there to help show teams what they should be using moving forward as we work to decommission the others. Any thoughts/ideas on this would be appreciated.

As a large public organisation we have several innitiativ & tenders for changeing the Application & IT-map.If we are working i 10 diffrent tenders with about 30 diffrerent suppliers and their applicationens. How do we handle the LeanIX Applications licens model, as we dont what to pay for Applications that are not in production.One way is just to keep those possible applications in Initiativ-factsheet and build relations from there.

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?

Hello,I’m trying to create a reportbut I need that on X-Axis appears the relation “Uses Platform”. Can you please support on this? Thanks.

Hello everyone,My current understanding is that behind most business capabilites there is a process that describes how this capability is achieved operationally. This process is modeled in SAP Signavio according to BPMN 2.0, for example.However, my understanding is also that certain capabilities can be used or activated within a process in order to support a process. Therefore, I have the following questions: Is it correct that business capabilities are used within a process to realize a higher-level capability? How can this relationship between capabilities and processes be represented in Signavio? So how do I illustrate in my BPMN, that the process describes “how” a certain capability is delivered? And how do I show other capabilities that are required for this process?Thank you very much for your support! 

Hi Community FellowsWe are new to LeanIX, I am exploring if anyone has experience in B2B integration flow ( IFDs) having trading partner ( external customer) mapped in LeanIX. A2A integration  where in sender and receivers are applications, it appears straightforward with interface factsheet. But any guidance on B2B would be helpful. RegardsKalpesh 

Hello,   I’m fairly new to using LeanIx tool for EA practice, within our organisation we have determined a few business products used by consumers and these products are supported by IT Components. The confusion we have is how do we link the business product to IT components without creating any applications. I understand we can change the out of the box meta model definition, just wanted to see if anyone has tried this approach before and if yes what implications does it have?  

Hello Everyone!Thank you for attending the Best Practice Webinar regarding APM Best Practices today! Below you will find the recording to the presentation, the deck used to present, and a recap of what was discussed.  Recording of PresentationPresentation Deck Recap: - The webinar is about Application Portfolio Management (APM) best practices and use cases in LeanIX, an Enterprise Architecture tool.- It suggests starting an APM initiative by compiling a list of past, present and future applications deployed on your system, identifying who owns these applications, and understanding the life cycle of these applications.- To ensure good quality data in your APM, LeanIX recommends using Quality Seals, a feature that ensures mandatory fields and attributes are filled in data.- LeanIX offers various features to aid APM, including configurable surveys, quality seals, tagging, diagram editor for visualizing application landscape, predefined KPI dashboards for analyzing and evaluating applicati

I would like to find an applications that have a certain “pIT ICTO ID”. But searching for applications with a Full Text search = “ICTO-20878”  does not yield the right search results. Is it possible to search for a specific text instead of full text search?

Is there an easy way to get a list of applications in my portfolio that are/are not linked to the SaaS catalog?

As a bit of a follow up to this topic: How to include Application displayName in "Request Now" Action Button of Application Portal | Community (leanix.net) I am wondering if it is possible to redirect the “Request Now” button in the Portal to open a form for filling out a new fact sheet. I have just created a Data Quality Governance process with tagging and To-Dos for making sure applications are entered with good data quality, and having the portal as an entry point for new manual application requests to take advantage of this would be great.

Is there a way to automate the role of the user if the user has been added as a subscriber.Ex: X is a viewer and X has been added as a service manager/ service owner. Can we automate to change the role of X from viewer to member?

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 

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

Hello LeanIX world!Have anyone use LeanIX to promote and/or track any security initiatives, like CMMC maturity level, Zero Trust?I am interested in learning your approaches to gather as-is and then create transformation stages to achieve certain security ‘assurance level’ that is customized for your environment.Thanks in advance！

Hello dear LeanIX Community, i am currently struggling with understanding the concept of the fields Provider Application and Consumer Applications on the Interface Fact Sheet. As I understand it, it has nothing to do with the direction of the data flow. But how can I identify which application is the provider and which one is the consumer of the interface?And also when should I use Logical Interface and when API as the subtype of the Fact Sheet?Thank you very much.

We are relatively new to LeanIX and have just completed an initial phase with a small selection of applications.  User Groups have proven to be a real challenge and we are considering if the new Organisation and sub types help us address this.We have grown via acquisition so have a very diverse IT landscape with multiple sites in the same country using different applications for the same business capability.  This is the detail we want to capture.  Therefore User Group has been set as physical locations (addresses) which represent sites.  We have then put in a 4 tier hierarchy to help aggregate that data into meaningful summaries.  The challenges we still face are:Who is using the application versus where it is supporting?  Where we have finance shared services, they are the user of an application for say accounts receivable but the data belongs to a site.  Finance Shared Services being the User Group is a given, but do people also map the site, or just accept that the Accounts Receiva

Hello Everyone! Recently, I have been working with a few customers that are currently working on integrating their IT landscape with another organization’s due to recent M&A activity. It’s no secret that M&A is extremely common for companies worldwide and has been growing in popularity since 2020. We also know M&A poses particular challenges for Enterprise Architects. With this in mind, I’d like to foster a conversation all about M&A and how LeanIX has helped you. Please include as many details as you are willing to provide!Some questions to get the conversation moving: If you were starting from scratch, looking back, what would be the first thing you’d do using LeanIX to support M&A? How has LeanIX changed your approach to M&A or alignment of IT systems? Do you have any proprietary frameworks/systems you like to use or created specifically to support your organizations’ goals with M&A? What automations have you designed within LeanIX to support IT int

Hello,To organise our digital products, we are using User Groups.We defined several sub-types :- Jobs / user Roles - Organisation (domain branch)- Group of products (teams under Organisation) In a table view of the "Digital Product" inventory, I would like to have 2 separate columns : one with the Organisation, and one with the Group of Products. Currently, I didn't find how to do it but only have column "User Groups" with all subtypes mixted. Is there a possibilty to have the same functionality as for the subscribers : to select which sub-type in a separate column?  Otherwise, sould I modify the meta-model to add new filed : one for the organization, one for group of product(but always linked to the user groups) ? Thanks for your help Gauthier

Hello all,I have a little challenge for Application Portfolio Management with multiple organizations.When assigning an Application to a Business Capability or Business Context (Process), it is possible to determine for which Organization is this relationship valid. So, for example, you could say that:SAP CRM automates Customer Management for USSalesforce automates Customer Management for UKWhen creating a Business Capabilities search in the inventory (Both organizations use the same BC Map), the result shows both applications supporting the same Capability:BC                                             ApplicationsCustomer Management            SAP CRM;SalesforceIs there a way to specify in the search criteria to show Applications to Business Capability relations valid for one Organization only…. The desired result is (assuming the Organization is “US”):BC                                              ApplicationsCustomer Management             SAP CRMThanks for the helpPaco Quiroz

Greetings,I have been prompted to lead and coordinate ARB recently.ARB has been in place for 2-3 years now, the process is a mix of manual and some power automation tool. I definitely see there is opportunity for process improvements/gaps/etc. Planning to conduct a organization wide survey with key stakeholders, ex.: Business Relationship Managers (BRMs), larger EA community (Portfolio, Business and Technology architects), Support group, etc.How to go about it?What are the key areas I need to consider or address? Appreciate this communities feedback… thanks. 

I created some sample KPIs, that are based on inventory filters. The results are correct but all of them show 0% in the dashboard. Any idea how to fix this?

This post explores the appropriate approach for modeling virtual servers hosting applications within the LeanIX Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) tool, specifically focusing on the transition from v3 to v4 metamodel.Scenario:On-premise application (ABC) resides on virtual servers (SRV123, SRV456). Servers have the same OS (Windows Server 2019) but distinct purposes and software (SRV123: web application server with IIS 10.0, SRV456: database server with SQL Server 2019). Hardware can be either shared (single physical server) or dedicated (separate Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 rack servers).Challenge:The current v4 metamodel lacks a clear way to represent these virtual servers. Here's why:They are not Applications. Standard IT Component subtypes don't capture their specific nature. Relations with other IT Components to depict hardware/software composition are absent. The v3 Tech Platform fact sheet, designed for this purpose, is no longer present in v4 due to its strategic shift towar