New  Interface  Fact  Sheet

LeanIX  GmbHNovember  2015

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Please  be  so  kind  and  checktwo  things  until  Nov  6th

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Removal  of  “old”REST  API  endpints

Provider  vs.  Consumer

Our  records  show,  that  the  interface  endpoint  (api/v1/services/servicesHasInterfaces)  might  not  be  used  in  production  at  the  moment.  We  would  like  turn  it  off  latest  on  Nov  20th in  order  to  avoid  performance  decreases.à Please  inform  us  ASAP  so  we  can  discuss  migrations

During  the  migration  we  have  the  assign  one  application  as  provider  and  one  as  consumer  of  the  Interface.  Whenever  the  direction  was  set  to  “Outgoing”  or  “Incoming”  we  can  derive  this.  In  case  of  “Bi-­‐Directional”  this  is  not  clear  and  we  have  a  50%  chance  to  do  it  right.à Filter  by  all  Bi-­‐Directional  interfaces  in  the  inventory,  export  to  Excel  and  correct  the  wrong  entries.

On  Nov  6th the  new  version  of  leanIX will  provide  four  main  improvements1

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New  InterfaceFact  Sheet

Cloning  ofFact  Sheets

Time-­‐Axis  inMatrix  Reports

New  add-­‐on

More  details  in  our  webinar  on  Nov  12th(details  follow)

First  details  today:Benefits,  changes  &  selected  screenshots

1)  Update  for  On-­‐premise  ready  shortly  after  SaaS  release

All  powerful  features  of  a  Fact  Sheet  are  now  also  available  for  Interfaces

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✓ Flexible  filtering  and  searching  for  interfaces  in  IT  Inventory

Import  and  export  of  interfaces  via  Excel

Classification  of  interfaces  via  tags

Association  of  responsible   persons  via  subscriptions

Linking  of  documents   to  interfaces

Allow  interfaces  without  consumers  (details  follow)

Maintain  interface  technologies   (was  not  possible  before)

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+ Data  Flow  report  now  showing   information   on  interface  labels

The  new  data  model  just  got  more  flexible,  all  existing  data  is  mapped  and  migrated

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Until  now New  Data  Model

Application  A

DataModel Application  

B

Interface

Application  A

Application  B

Interface

provides

consumes

consumesApplication  C

Data  Object

Data  Object

ITComponent

e.g.  Customer

Migration

e.g.  Customer

InterfaceTechnologye.g.  FTP e.g.  FTP

• For  each  interface  between  two  applications   a  new  Interface  Fact  Sheet  is  created• The  major  part  of  attributes  are  directly  mapped  to  attributes  in  the  new  Fact  Sheet,  e.g.:

Name  /  Description,  ExternalID,  Frequency,   Type,  Direction• The  two  connected  applications   are  linked  to  the  new  interface• Technology  is  mapped  to  an  IT  Component,   if  it  did  not  exist,  a  new  component  is  created• The  link   to  one  or  more  Data  Objects  remains• The  field   Link  (URL)  is  migrated  to  a  linked  document• The  Status  (Active,  Sunset)   is  migrated  to  the  lifecycle

The  new  Fact  Sheet  shows  all  interface  information  at  a  glance

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Information  of  Interfaces

• Name• Description• Lifecycle• 1  Provider• 1-­‐n  Consumers• Properties• 1-­‐n  Data  Objects• 1-­‐n  IT  Components

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We  keep  the  old  interface  section  in  the  Application  Fact  Sheet  until  Nov  20th

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You  can  take  your  time  and  really  make  sure,  that  all  data  has  been  migrated  properly.  The  section  “Interfaces”  is  set  to  read-­‐only.

On  November  20th we  will  remove  this  section.  If  you  are  OK  you  can  remove  it  by  disabling  the  section.  Just  open  “Customize  Fact  Sheet”  in  the  right  sidebar  and  navigate  to  “Advanced”.

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OLD

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The  data  flows  can  now  show  various  information  as  their  labels

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In  the  Data  flows  diagram  in  the  visualizer  you  can  now  select  what  information  is  shown   at  the  labels.

You  can  even  combine  one  or  more  types  of  information  – it  is  shown   separated  by  commas.

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