LeanIX & LoQutus: Next generation Enterprise Architecture Management
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This document provides an overview of LeanIX, an enterprise architecture solution. It discusses LeanIX's mission to help customers modernize IT, its global presence and growth. The document outlines LeanIX's product roadmap for 2019, which focuses on enabling next-generation IT capabilities like public cloud, microservices and Kubernetes through integrations and data models. It also highlights LeanIX's vision to expand the scope of supported enterprise architecture use cases. Case studies demonstrate how LeanIX has helped customers optimize applications portfolios and manage technology obsolescence.
LeanIX & LoQutus: Next generation Enterprise Architecture Management
- 1. NEXT-GEN SAAS FOR ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE LoQutus – Evert Deweer, Unit Manager Architecture LeanIX – Alexander Bloech, Director Partner Management Gent, April 30th
- 2. Guiding the Digital Tranformation of Organizations 2 Enterprise Architecture Solution Architecture Business Analysis
- 3. Agenda 3 About LeanIX Roadmap & Outlook Case Studies Q&A Why Next-Gen?
- 4. LeanIX helps customers globally to modernize IT 4 Mission LeanIX story Global presence • Headquarters in Bonn • US office in Boston • Global partner network • Founded in 2012 • Venture backed • Today: 100s of customers Enable companies to build great products by modernizing their IT architectures
- 5. LeanIX is the better solution – as comfortable SaaS for EA 5 Fast ROI through out-of-the-box EA 4.6/5 Native integrations & GraphQL API Interactive live reports High usability and broad use Innovations: mobile, metrics, survey, AI
- 6. 6 Well-known brands of all industries trust in LeanIX Industrials & Manufacturing Financial & Insurance Consumer Energy & Materials Pharma Tech, Media & Telecoms Consulting partners Logistics Travel
- 7. Agenda 7 About LeanIX Roadmap & Outlook Case Studies Q&A Why Next-Gen?
- 8. 8 BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS • Shorter time to market • Real-time big data insights • Efficient scalability • Exceptional user experience • Consistent channels • Integrated workflows • … • More APIs • Smaller (Micro-) Services • Faster Deployments IT Architectures are more important than ever before
- 9. Creating a Common Language 9
- 10. Many CIOs still manage critical data with office tools 10 CMO CIO Application Development Service Management IT Controlling Infrastructure Enterprise Architecture (EA) Best practice: Modern Systems-of-Record provide insight for each enterprise function
- 11. We bridge the gap between Business and Operations 11 McKinsey Architecture Stack Translate into SW / HW
- 12. A single source of truth is the start for modern EA 12 Single Source Of Truth Workflows Integrated Automated1 2 3 4 High Degree of Automation • Excel Up- & Download • Easy Inline-Edit • Generated Visualizations • ”Survey-Monkey” for IT Landscape • Quality-Seal • Integrations, e.g. with ITSM and BPM • LeanIX Store for extensions, e.g. Reports • Open API (REST / GraphQL) • Automatic documentation of Microservices from source code
- 13. LeanIX helps you to answer your stakeholders’ questions 13 Operational Strategic ITfocusBusinessfocus Developer „Microservice responsible?“ Solution Architect „Standard technologies?“ Security/Compliance „Processing of sensitive data?“ BPM „Process support through IT?“ IT PMO „Project interdependencies?“ CTO „Technology obsolescence?“ Finance Officer „IT spend by provider?“ CIO “Application redundancy?“
- 14. Different levels of configuration available 14 IT Component New Fact Sheets New Relations Attributes*A B C Configuration of Basic Data Model Levels of Configuration A B Project Product C Basic Authorization & Reporting Extended Full A * At Fact Sheets or Relations
- 15. Graph-based API based on Facebook technology 15 Graph-based API for inventory API* *) Invented by FaceBook • Strongly typed API using GraphQL* • Query needed data only saves bandwidth • All other endpoints using REST • Java SDK with helper functions • Developer info: https://dev.leanix.net API-Queries via embedded GraphiQL Swagger API for all other REST endpoints
- 16. Developer-friendly way to add custom reports 16 Custom Reports based on LeanIX framework • Embed into menu • Access to filters & save as bookmark • Apply views • Show as table & export • Open Fact Sheets 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 Custom Report 5 5 https://github.com/leanix/leanix-reporting-cli Command Line Tool (CLI) & Library for JavaScript https://d3js.org/• D3.js • Highcharts https://www.highcharts.com Example Libraries for Visualization • Creates example project to start with • Supports plain JavaScript or TypeScript • Allows usage of frameworks Angular or ReactJS
- 17. Agenda 17 About LeanIX Roadmap & Outlook Case Studies Q&A Why Next-Gen?
- 18. Reduce Complexity Enable DevOps Ensure Compliance Cloud Transformation Microservices & Kubernetes Governance Application Rationalization (e.g. M&A) Technology Risk Management GDPR Readiness Application Portfolio Management Technology Governance Integration Architecture Agile Development USE CASES ENABLED BY EA Manage complexity, compliance and growth in IT 18 1 3 Examples 2
- 19. 19 Application Portfolio Management We help to understand and optimize IT Architectures: Application Portfolio Management Case study “In contrast to the big tools that require a large team of architects to invest half a year before you see any results, our small team could start in a few days with LeanIX. It‘s super intuitive, super easy to push in data and to slice and dice it.” –Maik Schulz, Director Application Management • Identified huge rationalization potential in IT, with significant bottom line impact • Defined global standard applications • Consistent, high-quality global IT application inventory
- 20. 20 We help to understand and optimize IT Architectures: Application Rationalization • Million $ synergies due to reduced IT redundancy • Faster start of IT projects • Single source for strategic IT management decisions Application Rationalization “LeanIX allows my team to establish an increased IT transparency across country borders. We get insight faster and better than before. The information contained in LeanIX enables projects to start faster and decreases ramp-up costs.” - Silvio Hefti, Group CIO Helvetia
- 21. 21 Technology Obsolescence We help to understand and optimize IT Architectures: Technology Obsolescence Case study “Everyone agreed that transparency was the key. LeanIX helped us on our way to get an overview of our SAP landscape and a shared understanding of where to head within a couple of weeks.“ -Andreas Puke, IT Architecture Manager • Basis for innovative, fast- paced IT besides SAP core • Automated data import from SAP • Foundation for upgrade to next-gen SAP HANA
- 22. Agenda 22 About LeanIX Roadmap & Outlook Case Studies Q&A Why Next-Gen?
- 23. LeanIX Product Roadmap 2019 23 2017 – LeanIX 4.0 “Pathfinder” 2018 – Product Excellence • Faster user interface thanks to Single Page App • Extended inventory with table view & saved bookmarks • Fully flexible data model (Attributes, Fact Sheets, … ) • Developer friendly, strongly typed GraphQL API • Custom report framework to build extensions • State-of-the art Microservices architecture 2019 – Expand Scope EA-driven Use Cases Modern IT Enabling Partners Product Excellence FEATURE COVERAGE ROBUSTNESS & PERFORMANCE AUTOMATION
- 24. Roadmap 2019 – Delivered topics for Q1 24 Commit Q1/2019 Modern IT • ServiceNow Integration 2.0 (Filtering & Tags) • JIRA integration • Public Cloud Adapter (AWS / Azure) • Orchestration Adapter (Kubernetes) EA Product Excellence • Azure/K8s Migration • Better Quick Search • Visualizer Color-based Views • Virtual Workspaces • UX / UI overhaul • ISO 27001 Certification • Product Usage Analytics Enabling Partners • Extension of LeanIX Store • Self-Service Configuration • Deployable Extensions o Reports o Dashboards o Fact Sheet types o Data Model / View extensions o Data import APIs o Event-based extensions o Workflows EA-driven Use Cases • Confluence integration (Cloud + On-Premise) • Configurable Business Processes • Data model extensions for issues, project & milestones • Voting Survey • Open Source License tracking module • Integration with vulnerability detection x Details follow 1 2 3
- 25. Azure / Kubernetes Migration – Benefits 25 Improve guaranteed availability from 99% to >= 99.5% Ensure Data Center Compliance: e.g. ISO 27001, ISO 27018, SOC 1, SOC 2 Handle load increase of Logins, Workspaces, Fact Sheets, … Expand thought leadership by using best practice technology Add Data Center Locations: US, Europe, ASPAC (New) 1
- 26. Better Quick Search – First step: Grouping 26 2
- 27. Visualizer Color-based Views – provide more context 27 3
- 28. Agenda 28 About LeanIX Roadmap & Outlook Case Studies Q&A Why Next-Gen?
- 29. Get in touch with us 29 www.LoQutus.com
- 30. Get in touch with us and try out yourself 30 www.leanix.net