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
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Enterprise
Architecture
Solution
Architecture
Business
Analysis

3. Agenda
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About LeanIX
Roadmap & Outlook
Case Studies
Q&A
Why Next-Gen?

4. LeanIX helps customers globally to modernize IT
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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
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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

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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
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About LeanIX
Roadmap & Outlook
Case Studies
Q&A
Why Next-Gen?

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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
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10. Many CIOs still manage critical data with office tools
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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
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McKinsey Architecture Stack
Translate
into
SW / HW

12. A single source of truth is the start for modern EA
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Custom Reports based on LeanIX framework
• Embed into menu
• Access to filters & save as bookmark
• Apply views
• Show as table & export
• Open Fact Sheets
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4
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Custom
Report
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 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
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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
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Examples
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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

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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

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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
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About LeanIX
Roadmap & Outlook
Case Studies
Q&A
Why Next-Gen?

23. LeanIX Product Roadmap 2019
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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
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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
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25. Azure / Kubernetes Migration – Benefits
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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)
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26. Better Quick Search – First step: Grouping
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27. Visualizer Color-based Views – provide more context
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28. Agenda
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About LeanIX
Roadmap & Outlook
Case Studies
Q&A
Why Next-Gen?

29. Get in touch with us
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www.LoQutus.com

30. Get in touch with us and try out yourself
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www.leanix.net