February outlook into features in progress

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Here's the outlook for February 2025:

Bring more focus to your workspace with views 

The feature previously known as “use case focus” will become available to all SAP LeanIX admins in February. What we’re now calling "workspace views" underwent an extended early adopter period and is almost ready for the rollout.

It will allow admins to define specific views to filter the data and visualizations in a workspace for different scenarios and stakeholders. This reduces the amount of visible information they need to interpret and helps them concentrate on achieving a specific goal.

By selecting one of the configured views from the top navigation bar, users will switch from seeing everything in the workspace to focusing on only those dashboards, fact sheets, reports, and diagrams relevant to the selection. Such a view is temporary and can be switched back at any time. It's different from the user's read and write permissions but respects them.

Workspace views can not only assist users who are not familiar with SAP LeanIX but also guide stakeholders through top-of-mind initiatives like a post-merger integration or a regional applications rationalization assessment by hiding what's outside the initiative's scope.

Document and track your architectural decisions

Organizations today face challenges in architecture governance due to fragmented architecture decision-making, with critical documentation scattered across emails, spreadsheets, and disconnected systems.

Architecture decisions in SAP LeanIX will be an integrated solution that allows you to document, track, and align your architecture decision records (ADRs) within the same system as your architecture inventory. Linking decisions to relevant fact sheets will empower architecture review boards and ensure stakeholders across your teams can easily access, review, and understand key architectural choices.

After the release on February 10, 2025, workspace admins can grant user roles the permission to create decision records from the 'Architecture Decision' section on the 'Collaboration' tab and create your organization's own templates for users to leverage for different types of architecture decision documentation. Template-based decisions let users provide context through advanced text formatting and linking fact sheets and users. The context information will eventually facilitate future filtering, reporting, and visualizations.

Maintain a separate vendor lifecycle 

Track vendor and internal lifecycles of IT components separately with new 'Vendor Lifecycle' fields to better manage obsolescence risks. Distinguishing between the lifecycles will help plan the phase-out of legacy assets before the vendor's end of life in alignment with individual support extension dates.

The new vendor lifecycle field will be introduced to all workspaces in the last week of February. In those with the SAP LeanIX Technology Risk and Compliance, the lifecycle data will be synced automatically to IT components linked to the reference catalog. All lifecycles on fact sheets will be aggregated to calculate and visualize the obsolescence risks from underlying IT components to applications. The details of this calculation will be published with the release.

This way, you will be able to transparently plan when to phase out assets while keeping stakeholders aware of the vendor's end of support.