LeanIX Reviews

I use LeanIX for enterprise architect purposes.

My favorite feature of LeanIX is its ability to induct attribute-driven surveys. This is the aspect I like the most about it because it excels in this function.

LeanIX is primarily used to create and manage architectural models, link capabilities, activities, and products and generate comprehensive reports. It serves as a central platform for overseeing the IT landscape within EON, a large organization, streamlining operations and enhancing governance.

Implementing LeanIX has significantly improved our organization by providing a unified view of the IT architecture, which helps prevent redundant activities and facilitates the straightforward proposal of appropriate applications within the organization. This unified approach has led to increased operational efficiency.

Primarily, our use case is app rationalization. First, get a clear inventory of what applications we have and how they're categorized. 

Secondly, identifying obsolete ones for retirement or replacement. Those were the key reasons we bought it.

When we input our inventory and components, it tells us which ones are nearing end-of-life, deprecated, or obsolete. It also categorizes them. 

We've added flags, essentially tags, to mark certain things as non-strategic technologies. Using LeanIX, we made conscious decisions about which technologies are strategic and which aren't. 

This allows us to generate reports highlighting applications written in non-strategic technologies, giving us a better picture of our inventory size and what needs to migrate to the cloud or our target technology. 

So, it's about understanding what we have, seeing how it aligns with our strategic direction, and then driving the movement towards that direction.

I used it for a customer where we had to do application rationalization and portfolio optimization.

Ease of use is the most valuable feature. From an enterprise architecture perspective, it's not too cumbersome with too many functionalities, yet it has a lot of attributes for the content it covers.

So it's not too cumbersome. Its depth is good. I like that about it. It's compatible with a lot of other applications. It's catering to the area where others are not. So it's kind of complementing; instead of competing with others, it's complementing them.

Moreover, it's very customizable. So even if I want to implement a new framework, I can do it.

The solution offers ample of options. It's very flexible, with features, functionalities, and an admin console. You can customize it extensively. For example, if I need to add custom attributes for an application, I have that flexibility. It's a very flexible and customizable solution. I'm confident that my requirements will eventually be met within it.

This is what we're using LeanIX for: clients come to us with a lot of apps they want to manage. There are too many apps out there, so they're not quite sure which app is doing what, so they come to us to rationalize these things, and they want to make sure that the landscape of the apps that they have are functional and actually fit their purpose. We utilize LeanIX for assessing the apps, and we come up with integrations. For example: how these applications are talking to each other, how data is exchanged, etc.

We then come up with a target application landscape: which apps we'd maintain and which apps we'd sunset. From the CXO level, they'd get the overall view, in particular, how the IT landscape is, and that will help them increase capability and make it more aligned with their business needs.

What I find most valuable in LeanIX is its reporting feature. It provides very nice, built-in reports, like the time series report, etc. It's quite useful, especially if you want to present it to the CXO team. Our CXO team likes the way the reports have been built. It's also very easy to create the reports.

LeanIX is also intuitive, so it's quite a good tool to have. It's really easy to use compared to other tools.

I use the solution in my company for access control and landscape maintenance. It is used to put the life cycle and technical fit. The tool is used to swim through the life cycle and also for building maybe target architecture pictures by adding the objectives, the application, and the business capabilities.

For managing your IT landscape, the most valuable features of the solution revolve around the reports and the presentation that is there. I can develop a report and then do a presentation, or develop a report and some other diagrams and then put them all in one presentation, and from there, I can present things directly, so there is no need to move images.

I am just observing the landscape. For me, reporting is just to see if things are okay. If they are not okay, then I need to see what needs to be approved, what needs to be removed, and similar things.

Our company is a partner with the solution and we use it to provide our clients with enterprise architecture management.

Partnering with LeanIX has given an edge to our Enterprise Architecture Consultants.

I was part of an international bank and suggested this product for implementation. 

So our use cases include Portfolio rationalization and transformation.

The most impactful features include: 

• Business capability modeling
• IT landscape dashboards and surveys
• Integration with ServiceNow

For the reporting capabilities, LeanIX provides dashboards for different levels, including CXO dashboards. There are plenty of dashboards for reporting.