March outlook into features in progress

To provide you with even more direct insight into how LeanIX evolves, in addition to the monthly email newsletter for admins, we will give you an overview of selected roadmap items in progress here at the beginning of each month.

Visit roadmap.leanix.net to see our entire roadmap, and subscribe at updates.leanix.net to receive release notifications. By submitting feedback on how important each roadmap item is to you, you can subscribe yourself to be notified when a specific feature is released.

Here's the outlook for March:

Fact sheet subtypes with conditional attributes

With the LeanIX Meta Model V4 introduced to new workspaces in the summer of 2023, several new subtypes of Fact Sheets have been added, providing more modeling guidance. Supporting you in effortlessly adopting the new standard, subtype management and conditional attributes will be introduced to the Meta Model configuration in March.

Admins can then create Fact Sheet subtypes through a dedicated functionality, not just a subtype (or category) field on the Fact Sheet, and define which fields and relations only specific subtypes include. Switching through the subtypes will let you preview the configured Fact Sheet content.

New radar report with discovered technologies

We're excited to announce that our new Radar Report will extend the LeanIX standard reports by the beginning of April. Supporting all Fact Sheet types, this brand-new report plots Fact Sheets as data points onto a radial axis, with different circular segments based on Fact Sheet attributes. Radar reports are perfect for visualizing trends in your architecture and facilitating investment decisions.

Even better, the Radar Report can be directly populated with data from a discovery source new to LeanIX Technology Risk and Compliance (formerly TRM) called The Tech Discovery. Capturing the technical stack of your self-build software from SBOMs ingested via a new API endpoint enables your teams to identify technology experts and align their work with engineering leadership. With the automatically created IT Components representing your tech stack, you can better govern standards, make decisions on your used technology, and drive the adoption of new technology and market trends.

Arrange dashboard panels on a flexible grid layout

Today, there is only one standard layout for dashboards. From the beginning of April, you will gain more flexibility to create illustrative dashboards with all content in the right place for your stakeholders. While editing a dashboard, you can position and size widgets on a grid canvas with a free choice of individual height and width not limited to predefined rows or columns but a grid.

Upload fact sheet logos for portals

In addition to Application logos automatically added by SaaS Discovery, we'll enable users to manually add logos as a resource to any Fact Sheet in March. This will create the opportunity to show logos for self-developed Applications, parts of your Organization (User Groups), or specific Initiatives (Projects). When added, logos will be displayed automatically in configured portals.

Is it important to you to display the logos in other areas, like the inventory or reports? Tell us by leaving feedback on the roadmap item.

Guided SaaS discovery integration setup with revised inbox and linking 

This month, we'll enhance your capabilities in setting up SaaS Discovery integrations and linking discovered SaaS from a new inbox to your inventory.

You'll find a more straightforward setup process without signing a contract amendment and precise explanations of what each integration can do for you, with enhanced transparency into potential integration configuration issues. In the revised inbox, you can filter your discovered SaaS, compare updates side by side, and get details about where your discovered applications came from. Searching for specific SaaS and linking them to IT Components will be possible, too.

Connect multiple ServiceNow instances

Respecting situations where federated organizations utilize different ServiceNow instances for various aspects of their IT landscape, the LeanIX integration to ServiceNow will be updated to support connecting multiple instances in one workspace over the next few weeks. For this, a step-by-step setup of new integrations will be introduced, allowing the creation of more than one integration with ServiceNow.