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LeanIX vs SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.6
LeanIX offers scalable, cloud-based adaptability with consistent user satisfaction across company sizes, despite potential performance issues and tiered pricing.
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Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.5
LeanIX is valued for its intuitive, flexible reporting, integration with ServiceNow, and efficient application portfolio management capabilities.
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Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
4.7
LeanIX needs enhancements in integrations, diagramming, documentation, reporting, pricing transparency, UI intuitiveness, and multi-cloud and metadata strategies.
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Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.3
LeanIX is praised for its reliability and user-friendliness, scoring 8-10, with rare minor response time issues.
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Customer Service

Sentiment score
10.0
LeanIX provides efficient customer service with rapid responses, though time zones and agent experience may occasionally present challenges.
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Setup Cost

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LeanIX pricing varies with usage, offering competitive value but challenging cost predictability and limited flexibility for sporadic use.
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Categories and Ranking

LeanIX
Ranking in Enterprise Architecture Management
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SAP Enterprise Architecture...
Ranking in Enterprise Architecture Management
23rd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Enterprise Architecture Management category, the mindshare of LeanIX is 15.9%, up from 11.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer is 0.8%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise Architecture Management
 

Featured Reviews

NickGenoese - PeerSpot reviewer
Streamlines the process of identifying apps nearing end-of-life or requiring retirement and facilitates informed decisions about app retention
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.
Artur Chyziewicz - PeerSpot reviewer
Great training available with traceability a key feature
I use this solution to model enterprise software architecture. We are customers of SAP and an educational organization in Poland.  Traceability is a fantastic feature.  They should upgrade the algorithm. The solution currently has an old algorithm and there are now free tools on the market that…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Insurance Company
6%
University
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Educational Organization
8%
Retailer
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

Any experience with Strategic Project Portfolio Management Solutions?
Hi @Cheryl Joseph ​Looking at the crossover between Project and Portfolio management with EA, then Planview could be a good choice. If looking at Portfolio Management from an EA perspective then Le...
What do you like most about LeanIX?
The ability to import data and generate reports from it. That's where its power lies.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for LeanIX?
LeanIX uses application-based account licensing, where the cost is multiplied by the number of applications in the software implementation. Essential Docker offers unlimited users and limited appli...
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Sample Customers

adidas, Bosch, Chico's, Haworth, Helvetia, KuKa, Osram, Telekom, TUI, Santander, Swarovski, Vaillant, 7Eleven, and Zalando.
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