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LeanIX Enterprise Architecture

bySAP
in
4.7
Market Presence: Enterprise Architecture Tools, Application Portfolio Management Tools

Overview

Product Information on LeanIX Enterprise Architecture

Updated 13th October 2025

What is LeanIX Enterprise Architecture?

LeanIX Enterprise Architecture is a software that provides organizations with tools to document, visualize, and analyze their IT landscapes. The software supports the mapping of applications, technologies, and business capabilities, facilitating the identification of dependencies and redundancies within the architecture. LeanIX Enterprise Architecture enables users to monitor changes over time and assess the impact of new IT initiatives. By offering functionalities such as portfolio management, data lineage tracking, and reporting, the software helps organizations optimize their technology environments and align IT with business objectives. It addresses challenges related to transparency, governance, and efficiency in enterprise IT ecosystems.

LeanIX Enterprise Architecture Pricing

LeanIX Enterprise Architecture software uses a subscription-based pricing model, typically structured per user or per module, with tiered packages designed to accommodate different organization sizes and needs. Pricing details are provided as custom quotes based on the scale of implementation and the specific features required by the organization.

Overall experience with LeanIX Enterprise Architecture

IT Associate
250M - 500M USD, Healthcare and Biotech
FAVORABLE

“Digital Transformation powered by an extensible, easy-to-work-with and collaborative workhorse of a tool for any size of organization”

5.0
Nov 12, 2025
During a thorough selection process LeanIX emerged as our favorite candidate early in the process. LeanIX is an easy-to-use and quick-to-get system that allows ANY user (IT versed and non-versed) to get the information that they need, additionally, the reports and presentations enable quick communication to bring the messages across that management requires to be answered and that an EA practice is providing. Also, the extensibility has been a key factor, the ease of administration and freedom of attribute and workflow creation make it a platform where not only EAs are conserving their knowledge, but also collaborate with key functions like IT-security, data privacy and quality. So far the service has been quick and reliable and easy to access, always helpful even when tough questions needed to be answered. I also want to highlight the community-based approach and the CSM program, which helps newcomers a lot with their journey and let's you connect to other experienced customers to share knowledge on how to solve the problems at hand - in the end the problems and challenges are similar among enterprises.
IT Associate
3B - 10B USD, Manufacturing
CRITICAL

“Great opportunity to make it good, but will they take it”

3.0
Dec 19, 2025
Used to listen. SAP is not that responsive. Support has been declining.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 13th August 2025

SAP was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany. The company employs over 105,000 people globally and develops software solutions for enterprise resource planning (ERP) and related business functions. SAP’s early products, SAP R/2 and SAP R/3, were widely adopted for managing core business processes. Its current ERP platform, SAP S/4HANA, uses in-memory computing to support data-intensive operations and integrates capabilities such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. SAP offers a portfolio of software applications that support various business functions across industries. These applications are designed to operate on a unified digital platform. As of 2025, SAP reports over 230 million cloud users and provides more than 100 solutions. The company’s offerings are used by organizations to manage finance, human resources, procurement, supply chain, and other operational areas.

Company Details

Updated 13th August 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1972
Head office location
Walldorf, Germany
Number of employees
10001+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
http://www.sap.com

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LeanIX Enterprise Architecture Likes & Dislikes

Like

- reporting, dashboarding and modelling are key to bringt the messages across in a way that everybody understands at ANY TIME (automatically updated) - extensibility of the model is a key to make it fit to our organizational needs - it has helped tremendously - surveys allow very easy information gathering, so we can focus on important things (the things that do not require tedious data gathering from stakeholders) - the vision after all the years, it's still a product that is evolving and pushing new and required features to be a modern, good EA - that is key to use them further down the road

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Like

Repository of Applications connected to other things like Business Capabilities, Organization etc. And being able to connect and get the bigger picture. But also very important to connect all the objects into diagrams and see what diagrams are connected to the objects.

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Like

The tool is exceptional. Easy to use, fun to use, creates value for many different types of stakeholders.

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Dislike

- some content is not easily accessible (presentations from events, quarterly roadmap) - but it should be - would be interesting to know the possibilities of participate in beta-tests (know of beta-tested functions to be part in the test) - sometines you find bugs in lower-level reports, but they're usually fixed quite fast

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Dislike

User interface is terrible. Verry dificulit for new users to understand where information (attributes are) they are not visible. Also, nothing is finished to the fullest, making good functionality often useless, e.g. surveys, architecture decisions, reports, integrations, cost management, KPI-management, rights-system, backup-handling. Backup is totaly missing. The admin personnel can go into the system without me knowing and approving. No sensitivity labeling or information classification.

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Dislike

Working with lists (Inventory) has 2 annoying quirks: 1. When editing inline, saving gives multiple errors if the duration since last refresh is over a few minutes. Not one error, but one error for each changed item and the error messages do not go away automatically, creating a lot of clicks to close. Very annoying! 2. Scrolling is not immediate and refreshing takes the user to the top of the list, meaning that a lot of wait time to scroll down to the item the user wants to edit. KPI editing is not as easy as it should be, requiring pseudocode and only updating once a day. These are the biggest (only?) gripes to an extraordinarily well-functioning product. Another weakness is not being able to combine fact sheet types as the main basis of report but the drill-down features. Another urgent request we have raised is to be able to filter away related items that do not meet desired criteria (e.g. drill down, but only items that meet criteria We are not a SAP house so we have a serious concern that the product will gradually lose its independence and focus or begin to require SAP products that we do not have or want. Support for the Financial Industry is weak, for example the Global Repository doesn't include Bloomberg services or other globally recognized financial applications.

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LeanIX Enterprise Architecture Reviews and Ratings

Showing data for 442 ratings and reviews for Enterprise Architecture Tools market. View all 471 ratings and reviews across markets for a complete picture.

4.7

(442 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
65%
4 Star
32%
3 Star
2%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.3

Integration & Deployment

4.4

Service & Support

4.6

Product Capabilities

4.5

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  • IT Associate
    50M-1B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    Digital Transformation powered by an extensible, easy-to-work-with and collaborative workhorse of a tool for any size of organization

    5.0
    Nov 12, 2025
    During a thorough selection process LeanIX emerged as our favorite candidate early in the process. LeanIX is an easy-to-use and quick-to-get system that allows ANY user (IT versed and non-versed) to get the information that they need, additionally, the reports and presentations enable quick communication to bring the messages across that management requires to be answered and that an EA practice is providing. Also, the extensibility has been a key factor, the ease of administration and freedom of attribute and workflow creation make it a platform where not only EAs are conserving their knowledge, but also collaborate with key functions like IT-security, data privacy and quality. So far the service has been quick and reliable and easy to access, always helpful even when tough questions needed to be answered. I also want to highlight the community-based approach and the CSM program, which helps newcomers a lot with their journey and let's you connect to other experienced customers to share knowledge on how to solve the problems at hand - in the end the problems and challenges are similar among enterprises.
  • IT Associate
    1B-10B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Excellent, enjoyable tool to use that was a game-changer for raising EA credibility

    4.0
    Nov 13, 2025
    LeanIX has been a game changer. We purchased the tool about 2 months before a major merger was announced. We were able to load the new company's applications within a few hours, then using TIME and successor-mapping, we provided insights about potential gaps in coverage and helped migration teams with project scopes. The tool has arguably paid for itself in terms of time saved and ability to identify gaps in coverage. Truly excellent documentation and technical support, but it often takes time to get to the right level of expertise. Once that happens, the problems have been resolved instantly and well, and most have proven to be issues on our side. The support site is pretty horrendous though, with non-standard user registration and a confusing UX. We are impressed by the frequency of feature updates and communication about these, and the ability to suggest and vote on features.
  • IT Manager
    1B-10B USD
    Energy and Utilities
    Review Source

    Support And Service Praised While Reporting Functionality Raises Concerns

    4.0
    Nov 5, 2025
    There has always been a good relationship with LeanIX, with regular meetings with a Customer Success Manager to help us to get the best from the tool without it being a hard sell on other modules or products to increase revenue. The release cycle is frequent, with new capabilities being released on a weekly basis - sometimes significant, sometimes minor UX tweaks. Support has always been excellent, with responses to support tickets often being within the hour, even with lower priority issues. The product itself is still maturing, with reporting capabilities in particular being limited. Whilst this is improving, we still find the need to export data to use another reporting solution to get much of the intelligence that we want from the data.
  • IT Manager
    10B+ USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    SAP LeanIX Enhances Visibility, Collaboration, and Decision-Making Across IT Landscape while Maintaining Data Quality remains a Challenge

    5.0
    Nov 13, 2025
    Overall, our experience with SAP LeanIX has been very positive. It provides a clear and structured view of our application and technology landscape, enabling more informed decision-making and transparency across teams. Further, it helps us maintain a single source of truth and supports transformation decisions with structured insights. The modular approach and connection to SAP's Integrated Toolchain are strong advantages. The implementation and adoption journey were pretty smooth.
  • IT Associate
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Zu recht Marktführer bei EAM Tools mit durchdachtem Design, aktiver Weiterentwicklung und solider Basis

    5.0
    Nov 25, 2025
    LeanIX ist ein mächtiges Werkzeug, um auf verschiedenen Ebenen das Thema Enterprise-Architektur zu unterstützen. Sei es bei der Abbildung der IST Landschaft oder der Entwicklung des SOLL. Es bietet die Darstellung von vielen Beziehungen & Querverbindungen an, die ansonsten mühsam manuell zu visualisieren wären. Die Möglichkeit der kollaborativen Zusammenarbeit und dem zusammenführen der verschiedenen Sichtweisen und Blickwinkel ist eine große Hilfe in der strategischen Planung. Der schnelle und hilfsbereite Support, die sehr strategische Weiterentwicklung der enge Kontakt über den Customer Success Manager ist nicht alltäglich und macht immer viel Spaß.
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