From Models to Data:
The Rise of Data-driven
Architectures
André Christ, CEO
May 14th 2019
@leanix_net / @christ_andre
Is a new data-driven
approach needed for EA?
3%
Most EA tools focus
too much on models Strongly agree 31%
but need to deliver Neutral
Strongly disagree
more actionable
insights? 66%
Source: EA Tool Survey, 130 participants, April 2019, Copyright Mark McGregor
11%
Getting useful
answers from an Strongly agree
EA Tool is more Neutral 26%
Strongly disagree
important than
63%
drawing pictures?
Source: EA Tool Survey, 130 participants, April 2019, Copyright Mark McGregor
How can a data-driven EA
add business value?
Global Automotive & Retail leaders enable
transformation with 2000+ monthly active users
Business Capability Maps Application Roadmaps Strategic Portfolio View
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Financial Institutions cut identification of tech-
nology proliferation from months to seconds
Technology Lifecycles Business Impact Analysis IT Security Workflows
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Global Service & Technology brands control
their data flows and mitigate GDPR risk
Interface Dependencies Data Flows in Business Context Data & Hosting Locations
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Why is a data-driven
EA the way to go?
Simple questions are often hard to answer
quickly
• Where is the business impacted when IT applications fail (SLA)?
C-Level • Which dependencies are preventing a faster sunset of legacy?
• In what priority can we move applications into the cloud?
• Which applications can I reuse instead of investing twice?
Business • Which (IT) owners do I need to involve when I start a project?
Partner
• Which applications store sensitive data objects (GDPR)?
• Which applications are at risk due to legacy technology?
IT • Which standards should I use to avoid technology proliferation?
Delivery
• Which products & vendors are we using, where can we consolidate?
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Complexity and required speed cannot be
handled in Excel or with modelling tools
Example Company
500+
Processes
1000+
Applications
2500+
Technologies
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LeanIX establishes a data-driven Architecture
Management …
Large Enterprises
High-growth tech
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… which enables intuitive analysis in business
context and facilitates faster decision taking
Large Enterprises
High-growth tech
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A data-driven EA program unlocks business
value
Use Cases Business Value
Application • x % faster project starts
Portfolio • y # less redundant applications & projects
Management • z $ savings due to harmonization (M&A)
Technology • x $ less extended support costs
Risk • y % faster, real-time risk assessment
Management • z $ reduced risk due to head monopoly
Data Flow & • x $ GDPR risks & violations avoided
Integration • y $ Reduced indirect SAP license spent
Architecture • z % less manual documentation & drawing
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Our fast growth enables heavy invest in product
180+
LeanIX
Customers
“Google Maps for IT!”
Fast 50: Top 10 fastest growing companies
Invests $ 30M in LeanIX
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2012 2019
Which priorities should
an EA tool roadmap have?
3 Key Roadmap Priorities: Democratization,
Integration and Acceleration
That the Tool is Easy to Use and Intuitive 3.75
Easily Import and Connect External Data 3.61
Provides Output That is Easily Consumable and
Relevant for Non-Architects
Enables Easy Impact Analysis Across People, Process,
3.61
3.56
1 Democratize EA
Systems, and Capabilities
Integration with other systems e.g. ServiceNow
Producing High Quality Out-of-theBox Reports
3.19
3.17
2 Integrate Ecosystem
The Ability to Communicate Guidelines and
3.09
3
Governance Policies
Manually Create Diagrams
Accelerate Decisions
3.02
That ROI can be Shown in Weeks not Months 3.00
Automatically Create Diagrams 2.98
Source: EA Tool Survey, 130 participants, April 2019, Copyright Mark McGregor
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1 Find information fast by intuitive grouping
and smart result matching
Old Behaviour Grouping by Fact Sheet Type Better results by Pre-fix matching
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1 Enter data as easy as in Google
Spreadsheets
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1 Get recommendations for Business
Capabilities and quickly maintain data
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2 Bridge data silos using open APIs and out-
of-the-box integrations LeanIX Out-
of-the box
integrations
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2 Publish all interactive LeanIX reports to
Confluence and allow real-time data access
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3 Accelerate decisions by more business
context in your reports, e.g. data flows
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How does a data-driven
EA look tomorrow?
Big shift in IT infrastructure:
Physical → Virtual → Cloud
Physically-defined Software-defined Application-defined
1985–1999 2000–2014 2015 →
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Public cloud will not be winner-take-all
~$30B Run-Rate ~$15B Run-Rate ~$10B Run-Rate
~45% Growth ~100% Growth ~100% Growth
First-mover Developer- Owns the app layer (O365) Cutting-edge tech
friendly Flip MSFT ELA’s into Azure Only recently enterprise-
Lock-in, land, expand ELA’s ready
Visibility into on-premise
*GCP Run-Rate includes G-Suite
enterprise workloads and Google Apps
1) Hybrid (Public & Private) 2) Multi-Cloud
Source:https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2018/04/30/cloud-revenue-2020-amazons-aws-44b-microsoft-azures-19b-google-cloud-platform-17b/#37982ffc7ee5, 28
https://medium.com/work-bench/introducing-the-2017-work-bench-enterprise-almanac-the-next-generational-shift-in-enterprise-d482a93c3bc0
Effective impact and business performance
assessments of cloud is a challenge
Enterprises get a technical
… BUT it is hard to analyse larger
documentation for major cloud &
environments in (static) documentation
virtualization platforms …
Enterprises face an ever growing
… BUT EAs do not yet have a perfect tool
number of deployments of business
to design cloud governance infrastructures
applications to Public Cloud …
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Leverage TBM Taxonomy to automatically map
multi-cloud services to business context
Leverage TBM
Taxonomy to
map Multi-Cloud
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One single focus: Provide the best SaaS
for Data-Driven Enterprise Architecture
Bonn, Germany Boston, MA
German engineering meets … … global customer excellence
Thank you
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