August outlook into features in progress

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Here's the outlook for August 2024:

Concentrate on a selected use case focus

Starting into an early adopter phase next week and planning for general availability in your workspace in September, we will enable admin users to define specific use cases to filter the workspace. This will reduce the scope of visible information you need to interpret to help you concentrate on achieving a particular goal.

As a first iteration, we'll focus on the fact sheet details page in the inventory and branch out from there into a global effect for your entire workspace, affecting areas such as dashboards, inventory, reports, and diagrams.

Change the content of diagram drill-downs

In August, we'll be expanding your ability to create individual diagrams by adding the option to customize the drill-downs in your diagrams.

You’ve told us that drilling down from one fact sheet to any related ones on a diagram is helpful in creating visualizations that provide a tailored view of the architecture. Because the drill-down containers accurately represent the inventory fact sheets and relations, their contained shapes can't currently be removed nor added to the containers manually.

Your feedback encouraged us to start working on extending the flexibility of interacting with drill-down containers in free draw and data flow diagrams by:

• allowing the addition or removal of fact sheets, insertion of various relations, and the inclusion of regular shapes like icons and arrows,

• the ability to link shapes to a fact sheet, create a fact sheet inside a drill-down container, and roll up subordinate drill-downs inside the container,

• maintaining the size and arrangement of containers and fact sheets during drill-downs, irrespective of the actions performed.

For all these actions, containers must be manually detached from the inventory and won't be compatible with automatically checking for inventory updates anymore.

Access to discovery inboxes for non-admin users

Also, in August, we plan to embed discovery inboxes into collaborative workflows by enabling admins to configure access to SAP and SaaS discovery in the user role configuration. With this new setting, the discovery inboxes will be placed prominently in the inventory side panel, and a dashboard panel for newly discovered applications will be included in this release.

Application discoveries for SaaS and SAP solutions are currently available for admin users only and concealed for other users in the administration area. This can lead to responsible users not staying on top of newly discovered business-managed applications in their part of your organization.

To ensure the extended group of users has the required context and aid to make informed decisions on discovery SaaS, we will add a variety of integration-specific metadata to the items in the discovery inbox. The information will be specific to each integration and visible in the side pane, offering users a quick snapshot of the critical details.

Best practices for mapping data via integrations

By the end of August, we aim to ease the process of defining the correct data to be synchronized for your use case when setting up integrations to ServiceNow and SAP Signavio. We'll do this by providing default mappings based on best practices for syncing essential fields from SAP LeanIX fact sheets to SAP Signavio dictionary items and vice versa.

For ServiceNow's more heterogeneous setups, we'll provide suggestions for valuable field mappings between both platforms after a short, manually triggered analysis involving artificial intelligence. Both will enable you to initiate data synchronization quickly and improve existing configurations.

For the integration to Collibra, we've recently published best practices guiding through the essential concepts of data management to ensure effective collaboration between data governance and enterprise architecture teams.