#1 most frequent
United States of America
41.6%127 installations of 305
What is SAP LeanIX?
LeanIX Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) is a solution designed to assist organizations in effectively managing their IT landscape transformation and mitigating associated risks. According to the vendor, LeanIX EAM provides real-time overviews of the IT landscape and business capabilities, enabling users to make data-driven decisions and accelerate business transformation. It caters to companies of all sizes and is utilized by professionals in various industries such as Enterprise Architects, IT Managers, IT Operations, IT Governance, IT Strategy, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail, Healthcare, and Technology.
Categories & Use Cases
Who Buys & Uses SAP LeanIX
#2 most frequent
Germany
13.8%42 installations of 305
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
10.2%31 installations of 305
Great and simple to use, future to be seen
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use EAM mainly for three cases: - application lifecycle management - project portfolio management - general enterprise architecture besides that we enhanced the templates with some fields to strengthen the privacy and security architecture insights. Overall the fact sheets are very helpfull for application owners, process owners, architects and IT staff in general
Pros
- User friendly
- Configurable
- Relations between fact sheets
- Lifecycle management
- Self build reports
Cons
- More depth in initiatives.
- Pre- fill with complete architecture of major solutions (like M365, infor m3 or other non SAP solutions)
Return on Investment
- We use it for portfolio management and through its use, are enabled for better prioritization and selection of projects
- We reduced our application portfolio that were overlapping in features
- We identified weak process areas and are now able to challenge business projects in relation to process maturity and user happiness
Other Software Used
LeanIX SaaS Management Platform (Cleanshelf)
PowerDesigner allows team collaboration and helps support strong data governance.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use SAP PowerDesigner as our E-R Modeling tool for our application suite. We have twenty-four databases with approximately 3000 tables and 50,000 data elements. We use a repository-based version of the tool and are able to create multiple models that can be used to show various subject areas within the system. We have also taken advantage of customizing the templates to generate objects based on the DDL for the table. PD is an enterprise approved tool and our group has used it since 2001. I personally have used it since 1996.
Pros
- Data modeling
- Maintaining a consistent data dictionary through the use of the repository.
- Custom templates for generating objects off of tables.
Cons
- It took some time to figure out how to leverage the power of the repository. Some better examples in the documentation would have been helpful.
Return on Investment
- Recently, the corporation started a big initiative on data governance and making sure we have the appropriate documentation. While other teams were scrambling, we were all set because we had our data dictionary and our many data models documenting the system.
- Great tool for team collaboration.
- Nice to be able to extend what the tool does through the use of custom templates.
Alternatives Considered
erwin Data Modeler
Other Software Used
MongoDB, MongoDB Atlas
Sybase PowerDesigner to Design databases
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
SAP Sybase PowerDesigner is the ultimate tool for creating conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling for many database vendors. It also provides ease of multi-user architecture and development environments with a supporting repository structure. Team governance and object standardization can be applied as well. It supports various database vendors, and impact analysis is one of the most powerful aspects of the tool.
Pros
- Impact Analysis
- The domain structure helps you to handle different data types to unify.
- Moving between from conceptual model to logical model and from logical model to physical model is so easy.
- It also excels at implementation of database vendor-specific physical options.
- The repository structure helps you to use in multi developer and architect based organizations by the check in and check out mechanism.
- It also has a fully configurable naming convention implementation.
- Coloring is simple with format copying and pasting option.
Cons
- Licensing cost is based on user count
- Free licensed competitors exist, and they perform similar functions
- New database structures could be implemented more easily
Return on Investment
- Standardization of models
- Impact Analysis
- Graphical User Interface
- Ease of deployment
Alternatives Considered
SQL Developer and erwin Data Modeler
Other Software Used
SQL Developer, Oracle Data Integrator, Oracle Warehouse Builder