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April 2, 2024

LeanIX Wins First Place in Six G2 Leader Awards for Spring 2024

Real-world users award LeanIX the number-one position across six categories, including Application Portfolio Management for the first time

BONN, Germany and BOSTON, MA, April 2, 2024 – For five successive quarters, LeanIX has won Leader Badges in G2’s seasonal Grid® Reports. In the latest Spring edition, real-world users ranked LeanIX number one in six categories across two sections, Enterprise Architecture Tools and Application Portfolio Management.

For the Enterprise Architecture Tools section:

  • Overall Grid Report
  • Relationship Index

For the Application Portfolio Management section:

  • Momentum Grid Report
  • Relationship Index Report
  • Overall Grid Report
  • Enterprise Grid Report

This is the fifth G2 seasonal software awards in a row where LeanIX has won four or more categories. In the previous Winter Grid® Report, LeanIX ranked first place in five out of six of these categories – Overall Grid Report and Relationship Index in the Enterprise Architecture Tools section, and Momentum Grid Report, Relationship Index Report, and Enterprise Grid Report in the Application Portfolio Management section. For the Overall Grid Report in the Application Portfolio Management section, LeanIX has climbed from #2 last quarter to claim the top position this quarter.

As the world’s largest and most trusted software marketplace, G2 is visited by 80 million software buyers each year. Badges are awarded quarterly, and a company must receive at least 50 approved and published reviews in order to be eligible. G2 Badges represent the trust only authentic peer reviews provide. G2’s real-world users continue to rate LeanIX as the global industry leader in enabling continuous transformation of corporate and product IT.

Enterprises around the world use LeanIX to visualize, plan, and manage their increasingly complex IT landscapes, including all applications and SaaS subscriptions. LeanIX’s automated, data-driven approach allows companies to map their “as-is” enterprise architecture, connecting applications to the business capabilities and processes they support, while also designing their ideal “to-be” future state. The insights provided by LeanIX empower organizations to make informed decisions regarding technology investments and support large-scale transformation projects, including cloud migrations, ERP transformations, and application modernizations.

LeanIX met and surpassed the following prerequisites for each Leader category:

Application Portfolio Management – To qualify for inclusion in the Application Portfolio Management category, a product must:

  • Visually map out applications in use
  • Track application usage for each team
  • Rank applications based on their value to the business goals
  • Identify redundancies, overlap, and organizational inefficiencies

Enterprise Architecture Tools – To qualify for inclusion in the Enterprise Architecture Tools category, a product must:

  • Facilitate business modeling, management, and structural analysis
  • Assist in managing processes, requirements, and risks
  • Provide project management features for business strategy planning

Relationship Index for Application Portfolio Management – Badges for the Relationship Index are awarded to products for:

  • Best Relationship (highest overall score)
  • Highest Quality of Support (highest overall score)
  • Easiest To Do Business With (highest score)

Momentum for Enterprise Architecture Tools and Momentum for Application Portfolio Management – A product’s Momentum score is calculated by a proprietary G2 algorithm that factors in social, web, employee, and review data.

After last year's acquisition by SAP, LeanIX has become part of SAP's comprehensive transformation suite to help customers map and navigate business transformation and permanently improve their business processes. At a time when continuous transformation is critical to staying competitive in ever-changing markets, enterprise architecture plays a foundational role in business transformation management.

LeanIX earned its recognition based on customer reviews such as these on the G2 platform:

"[LeanIX] is intuitive and constantly evolving with features. It solves the problem of data unreliability. It creates a platform for consistent and shared information that harmonizes a top-down and bottom-up view."

"[LeanIX] enables easy documentation and modeling of your application landscape as a basis for strategic management of your portfolio. Very short time-to-value creation!"

"[LeanIX] is an EA tool with better insights. It collaborates well between different architecture layers, which helps rationalize the application landscape."

Check out the many validated user reviews of LeanIX on G2 now and see first-hand how LeanIX stacks up against the competition.