LeanIX Valuable Features

NickGenoese - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Ngen Consulting

The ability to import data and generate reports from it. That's where its power lies.

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Roshan Bhondekar - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Service Delivery Leader | Senior Consultant at Cognizant

LeanIX has a great application information architecture. Currently, the interface application project and data objects are well organized and defined, making it easy for people to use. Additionally, the business architecture, for which I have used the business application processor, is properly aligned with the current market needs. The solution has many integrations which are easy to use.

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SJ
Business manager at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

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.

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Amitava Roy - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Enterprise Architect (Cognizant Digital Business) at Cognizant

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.

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WC
Principle Research Director at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature would be application portfolio management, which is where they came from, but over time, they have got artificial intelligence. They built up a very good repository. If I identify a system by name, from historical information, oftentimes, they can tell me that this is deployed with this number of CPUs and they can give me a really good profile of the application for me to put it into a change management database with very little effort.

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BIPLAB SARKAR - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Hexaware Technologies Limited

The out-of-the-box Enterprise Architecture artifacts are accurate and intelligent.  

The solution has a very useful assessment tool that automatically populates from input data to produce a detailed analysis of customer's environments. 

Sandbox access is provided across all architects. 

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AlanJackson - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner: Enterprise Strategy & Advisory at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

This product has the ability to interface with downstream systems of data, whether primary or secondary. It's one of the better in the market place. It's an extremely useful system to enable visualization of your end-to-end flow and to look at future proofing. It's got great graphics and is new, modern, and completely cloud-based. It's efficient to put into production quickly. 

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MD
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

I highly appreciate its usability and capabilities for enterprise asset management.

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RV
Enterprise Architect at Enterprise architecture Tool

The most valuable aspects of the solution include its factsheets, easy data capturing, coarse-grained security access control, surveys for automatic data collection and embedding into the platform data (mapping to meta models), technology life cycle management (with industry data) out-of-the-box dashboards like business capability modeling, matrix reports, etc.

It offers out-of-the-box data sync with ServiceNow (ITSM platform), and REST API for integration.

There's a cloud integration for listing the services/applications an organization uses in AWS, to provide a single window listing in the EA Platform for SSO, license cost, etc.

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MS
Sr. Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Among the most valuable features are the easy-to-use interface and the ability to get quick results. Setting up an enterprise architecture practice, in general, is a lengthy process, and it's a learning process in many ways. A tool that is very open with a lot of capabilities can sometimes look intimidating. This tool doesn't look intimidating. EA practice is not only for technical people and that makes the usability of an EA tool like this very important.

We do talk a lot and engage with many business users and they need a little bit different approach than technical people. From that point of view, many tools that I have seen are great for technical people and for giving business information as well, but they're not as friendly and easy as LeanIX.

From an adoption perspective, it's much easier than Sparx Systems or Orbis. Those tools are more open but, at the same time, they are more sophisticated and more intimidating for non-technical people. LeanIX is built with a non-technical audience in mind as well. It works well for both technical and business users. It provides a good combination, enabling you to quickly put valuable information in for both technical and non-technical people and derive results. The results may be a bit more predefined, but you can configure it as well.

It also has very good tagging abilities and a good search so you can segment your inventory based on your own preferences, not only according to something predefined by the vendor.

LeanIX is different from most of the other enterprise architecture tools. On the one hand, it's not as open as other tools, but from another perspective, it gives you a number of predefined ways to organize your inventory and your linkages. 

It has a number of configurable reports or artifacts that are created based on the information that you input. The tools for creating automatic artifacts are pretty good, including diagrams and reports. At the end of the day, when it comes to inventory, you need to be able to report on it, provide an artifact, and show how many of each item you have.

And if you need to build something that is customized, it provides a very comprehensive API so you can build your own reports and tools, and configure the system as you wish. It opens up views from every angle. It does take a little bit of technical knowledge, specifically Node.js, to build it, but it's not too complicated. It provides a GraphQL API, which means it's not too difficult to build your own reports.

The visualization of your information is a very good aspect of the solution as well, the way you can share the information with others. It has multiple ways of doing so.

There are also integrations, as add-ons, with ServiceNow. It has the ability to go through all your environments and find everything you have installed. That can help you automate the gathering of the inventory list of your technologies. ServiceNow can use the definitions of the products you have defined in LeanIX. One important caveat here is that the CMDB and the ServiceNow part need to be managed well to make it happen.

There is another very useful add-on that connects your technology list with Technopedia. When you link to an item in Technopedia, it will bring all the information about the vendor's platform. And if there are changes, it will change yours as well, such as life cycles or when the product is going to be sunset. Valuable information can be taken from Technopedia in a very easy way.

There are other add-ons that we don't use. One of them is with Signavio, which is a BPM tool. If you have it, I think that add-on would be very valuable. 

LeanIX has another offering that we are just looking at, to do the same type of discovery for cloud platforms. That means that with the correct configuration, you can monitor what kinds of cloud services you are using and have that information as building-blocks for your enterprise architecture.

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VM
Digital Enterprise Architect at DXC Technology

I like the tool’s integration and maps.

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GeorgeDiaz - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Consultant at Inspi Technologies

I like LeanIX's ease of use in general.

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FlemmingHansen - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at IT innovation

One of the product's most valuable features is its ability to configure the hardware devices and provide deployment views in the architecture. It can get an updated overview of your inventory, which is a good part.

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ST
Principal Enterprise Architect at a construction company with 201-500 employees

The most valuable features are that it's user-friendly and the user experience. It's easy to map the fact sheets. Instant access to data and reports

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RH
Consultant at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

The usability is very high. It almost looks like a Facebook for Enterprise architecture, it's pretty nice. It's HTML5 based. The repository is very easy. It has 10 different ways of sorting the objects you have in your architecture repository. Maintaining new data or to add data to your repository is very easy.

The whole repository itself is very easy to be maintained. The reporting capability allows you to develop custom reports in JavaScript and just upload it to your LeanIX solution so that you can use your custom reports. Due to the JavaScript implementation, we have almost an endless library of any kind of layout we want to have. 

The new feature LeanIX offers is actually that you have a so-called LeanIX store where you can download custom reports that already have been built and uploaded to the LeanIX store, partly for free. You can already download existing solutions or access new reports to your repository. You just add them. You just click add and they automatically add it. 

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JB
CRM Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The flexibility in the reporting has been extremely valuable. We've been able to develop some nice looking reports and the dashboard's capability to map is very easy compared to Enterprise Architect.

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