Are you tired of learning a new query language, too?

Working with extensive data holds its own challenges. How can you retrieve the data you need out of the tons of available data. It gets even harder when you have to include logical connections between singular objects.

Looking at the management of IT portfolios, a good example are user groups that depend on a certain provider. IT is strongly debating how changes of providers are affecting the business. For our example we want to discuss the portfolio of an internationally working company. Here, user groups are national organizations, but you could also use business units or customer units.

The pain of using a non-cloudbased EAM tool

Source: Software Engineering for Business
Information Systems (sebis), Prof. Dr. Matthes

To successfully implement enterprise architecture to a business, tool support is necessary. Tools help with extensive data storage, creating analysis or planning architecture. Transparency is the key for success and transparency is possible – with tools!

The market for EAM tools offers a variety of products, while most of them still need an installation on the company`s side. This is not a problem per se, since one-off investments can be depreciated over several years. But if one only bears in mind how dynamic the subject of EAM and according frameworks are developing, it does not surprise that IT tools have to adapt constantly to new requirements, leading to very short release cycles. For extensive and “heavy” products there are about 2 updates a year, with agile development sometimes even 8 - 10.

Acting like Pacman. When IT and Business chase each other

You probably still remember Pacman. It is this computer game where ghosts are chasing after a smiley. The smiley is trying to “eat” as many points as possible, while the ghost are running more or less coordinated after him. If the ghost catches the smiley, the smiley dies. The clue of the game is to move the smiley clever in order to avoid the ghosts and catch points at the same time. Bonus points change the situation: The smiley is becoming invulnerable and can now chase the ghosts.
We find some similarities if we look at everyday life in some IT organizations. The smiley represents the business and the points it is eating are the tasks the business has to fulfill. The ghosts represent IT managers. Most of the time IT managers are working on their own account and the business avoids contact with them as well.

Time to celebrate

We had a reason to celebrate. About a year ago we founded LeanIX, back then still called treibglas. We are looking back on a very interesting and challenging first year and hope for a lot more to follow. During this year we faced a lot of new experiences, helping us to advance with our plans step by step.

Every member of our team has contributed to the success of LeanIX in a different way in areas of Marketing, Public Relations and Programming. We are extremely proud of what the team has accomplished this past year. Without this support, we would have never achieved this much.

What modern IT Managers can learn from native communities in Latin America

One of our team members travelled a lot and is always interested in understanding cultures, communication and decision-taking. Read how he sees that a good management relies on the involvement of the whole group. For businesses social technologies can provide what city halls in native communities provide. Time to get started.

Communities in South America have long lasting structures

To improve an enterprise does not necessary mean to implement new structures and get rid of all the old ones. It means to keep the best traditional practices and add useful ones.