Weekly feature improvement and bugfix summary

Dashboards

On the Architecture Executive Dashboard, for certain pre-defined KPIs, you can now choose in which use case you want to display them. For example, the KPI "Ownership of applications" can be displayed in one of the following use cases: Data Quality, Application Portfolio Management, or Application Rationalization. When activating the respective KPI for one use case, it is automatically disabled in the other.

Inventory

If users attempt to change the status of a quality seal but lack the necessary permissions, a message is displayed. The wording of this message now reflects different possible permission settings.

Reports

When working on cost optimization scenarios, oftentimes the TIME assessment is being leveraged. An interesting question to answer to understand your savings potential is: What is the total cost per TIME category? We now enable you to answer that question within your workspace in a visual way on the landscape report. Usually, aggregating cost data on a cluster level of a landscape report is only allowed for fields on relations to avoid summing up costs repeatedly across clusters and thus diluting totals. However, if your landscape report is clustered by a single select value (e.g., TIME classification), there are no duplications possible, so it is safe to sum up cost fields from the different fact sheets. To visualize the cost per cluster, navigate to the settings menu of the landscape report, cluster the report by a single-select field or tag, select a cost field as the left property or right property, and check the "Sum up to cluster" checkbox.

Diagrams

We have made several improvements to the functionality of our diagrams.

• When comparing two diagrams, you can now see additional information if there have been changes in a relation. The additional information now displayed for added or removed relations includes the name of the relation, as well as the source fact sheet and the target fact sheet, along with their respective links. This allows you to identify changes between two diagrams more quickly.

• We have updated the draw.io version of our diagrams editor to version 28.2.9. This update includes minor UI improvements, a change to the diagram type Mermaid, which is now composed of separate shapes rather than an image, and an updated SAP shape library. Unfortunately, with the update, uploading Microsoft Visio files (.vsdx files) is currently not supported. We are in contact with draw.io for them to implement a fix in the near future. Until the fix is in place, a workaround is available: Go to diagrams.net, import your diagram, export it in a supported format (e.g., drawio, .png, .jpg), and then import it into your LeanIX workspace. We understand that this is not an ideal setup. If you are regularly using this import functionality, please reach out to us.

Discoveries

We informed you last week that you can reference business applications from the manifest file using an external ID when bringing in self-built software into your workspace. This functionality has now been extended to the team subtype (parent fact sheet type is organisation), so you can now use an external ID from the manifest file to reference teams. This provides additional convenience if you have established a methodology for using external IDs when linking development teams and microservices to identify ownership.

Integrations

We resolved the issue with the Confluence integration that we had informed you about in the last weeks. With that, the known functionality, which allows smart links to be created/removed on the "Resources" tab of a linked fact sheet in your workspace, is available again.