LeanIX® EA & APM
LeanIX provides the inventory, relationships, and visualisations to manage applications, capabilities, and technology components. Nexinc combines LeanIX with TOGAF and BIZBOK so architecture becomes a living decision system, not a one-time documentation effort.
LeanIX is where the truth of your landscape lives: applications, interfaces, technologies, providers, and their relationship to business capabilities and value streams. Nexinc uses LeanIX to:
We design the model with TOGAF/BIZBOK and run it day-to-day in LeanIX – including ownership, KPIs, and governance.
We start small and focused: only the modules and data that support real decisions in the first 90 days.
Inventory of applications, owners, lifecycles, costs, and business-fit. The core for rationalization and strategy.
Technology stacks, runtime products, and interfaces between applications – key for risk and modernization.
Capabilities, processes, and project fact sheets to connect portfolio planning back to the business.
We configure LeanIX with a small set of high-value views that leadership can actually use. Below is a “Nexinc blue” example of how those views connect across business, applications, and technology.
LeanIX View Stack
Business & Portfolio Views
Capability Heatmaps
Show where the business is well-supported vs. under-served. Basis for roadmap and invest / tolerate / phase-out decisions.
Business Support Matrix
Matrix of capabilities vs. applications, highlighting redundancy, gaps, and critical single points of failure.
Application & Tech Views
Lifecycle & Risk Dashboards
Combined view of EOL technologies, obsolete applications, and risk exposure across domains.
Interface & Integration Maps
Visualise core data flows and dependencies to plan integration simplification and event-driven patterns.
These views are typically integrated into steering decks and governance meetings – so LeanIX becomes the default way to “show the landscape”, not just another tool.
Our approach is to quickly reach a “minimum lovable product” in LeanIX that stakeholders actually use, then grow the model incrementally.
Step 1 – Design
Define fact sheet types, relations, and ownership. Align to existing EA / CMDB structures while keeping it simple.
Step 2 – Seed
Load core applications, technologies, and basic relationships. Capture “good enough” quality to start using the tool.
Step 3 – Integrate
Set up syncs with CMDB, cloud accounts, and project tools so the repository stays fresh without manual chasing.
Step 4 – Govern
Use LeanIX views in steering committees and architecture boards. Make updating LeanIX part of the normal ways of working.
We measure success by decisions and de-risked investments, not by the number of fact sheets created.
Curious how a LeanIX rollout would look for you? We often start with a 4–6 week “EA Radar” engagement to stand up LeanIX, load critical data, and deliver the first decision-ready dashboards.
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