The initial setup is very straightforward. 

LeanIX was initially difficult to use because it is very new and there is limited knowledge available in the market. We had to read the manuals, watch videos, and search YouTube for information. The initial setup took some time.

Deploying LeanIX isn't that difficult, especially when you compare it with other tools, e.g. MEGA. Configuring it is not that difficult. It's quite easy to install it.

The actual initial time to value is about three days. I can get it installed if I have someone who knows what they're doing with it. They can import my data because normally, we have the data laying around somewhere, and I can get through and identify overlaps in my portfolio within probably three business days so that it gives me a good value. 

Their go-to-market is rather interesting where you can do a pilot. In the pilot itself, you can pretty well identify enough cost savings to justify the full purchase. From that, it puts them in a very good position to then be able to save you additional components and make your enterprise architecture more robust.

The setup was handled by the solution's technicians so I cannot speak to its complexity.

This is an SaaS product so it's on my network and the maintenance is automatic because of that. 

It is a fully SaaS-based solution and is very straightforward to get this delivered as a portal and start using it. The exception is taking into consideration the sustainability needed for keeping data alive with data sync of other ITOP systems.

The initial setup was very straightforward. When you know the practice of enterprise architecture and you know what you're building, it's very easy. There is no complication when setting it up. 

It would probably be very complicated if you don't know EA. You do need to know what your objectives are. But when you know it, it's very one-to-one. All aspects of the implementation of this tool are mapped one-to-one. For someone who knows the subject, it's easy to refer to it because it's built-in a very predictive way.

It's a cloud solution so there is not that much you need to do. Setting it up was easy. To get an agreement about the setup was something else. We have almost 60 architects who had to come to an agreement. But the setup itself was very easy.

It has an export function from Excel spreadsheets, which is the usual place for maintaining lists, and that helps a lot with bulk updates. That's one of the great tools that it has.

It also has some configurations available so you can at least change names and labels. You do need an add-on for that, but it's a pretty cost-effective add-on. It's not that expensive and you can adapt labels to whatever meanings you have in your organization, and how you prefer to label things. That was part of what made it a very quick setup and promoted better understanding and adoption.

When I started to implement integrations with our internal systems, I didn't find it very difficult. The ServiceNow was one of the most involved integrations, but we did it in one day with the help of their technical support. It started to work right away.

Because of the nature of our practice, we implemented it first for our IT departments. Now, there are a myriad of people working with it, including all kinds of architects, lead architects, senior architects; there are some directors of development, directors, managers, lead developers, and QA analysts as well. 

We haven't rolled it out that much yet for non-IT personnel, but that is the plan for the end of this year. They are already going through the training for it. We are expecting to have plenty of sales and marketing people on it. 

It is used a lot for our CIO, and for presentations to our board of directors, for more strategic initiatives and plans.

Deploying LeanIX is straightforward. Depending on the organization's size, it tasks two or three people to deploy. 

I rate the product's initial setup process an eight out of ten.

The initial setup was straightforward.

The initial setup was straightforward. It took us more than six months because we started from the ground up and we were also building the data catalog.

The initial setup is actually straightforward. You need about 15 minutes to get used to the tool. It's very quick.

You don't need a tech person to do the deployment. Any business person could just review data and add data. They simply just need to understand the meta-model within 15 minutes.