SAP LeanIX and Boldo both let you manage an enterprise architecture in a shared model. Compare their metamodels, pricing, visualizations and contribution modes.
SAP LeanIX vs Boldo: two approaches to weigh against your scope.
Founded in 2012, LeanIX has grown into a SaaS enterprise architecture platform. SAP completed its acquisition on November 8, 2023. Its offering covers, among other things, application portfolio management, technology risk and target architecture planning.
SAP LeanIX provides a best-practice metamodel made of Fact Sheet types and relations. This metamodel is configurable: administrators can add types, fields and relations depending on their workspace configuration.
Boldo organizes assets, their properties and their relations in a shared knowledge base.
Administrators define the asset types, properties and relation types of the metamodel.
Data can be leveraged in views, diagrams, charts, nested maps and dashboards.
Access combines user type, role and access domain.
Boldo hosts its data in France.
SAP LeanIX provides a best-practice metamodel with 12 default Fact Sheet types in its v4 release. Its documentation states that it is fully configurable. You can create custom Fact Sheet types, fields and relations.
Boldo lets administrators define asset types, their properties and relation types directly. The Boldo documentation does not describe a native TOGAF or ArchiMate library. The comparison should therefore focus on model governance, the required objects and the expected visualizations.
SAP LeanIX advertises an unlimited number of users for its Application Portfolio Management offering. Data collection and maintenance rely on surveys, tasks, comments, Fact Sheet subscriptions and dashboards intended for stakeholders.
Boldo distinguishes readers from editors. Rights are based on user type, role and access domain.
SAP LeanIX Application Portfolio Management is billed based on the number of applications, with tiered pricing. The number of users is unlimited. Detailed amounts are not published on the pricing page.
Boldo offers per-user pricing, starting at 39 € excl. VAT per editor/month (Enterprise on quote). Prices are public on the pricing page and sign-up is self-service, with a free 14-day trial, no commitment.
Compare Boldo to more than 10 other enterprise architecture modeling and mapping solutions.
With Boldo, teams can consult the same assets and reuse their data across multiple visualizations. Readers explore shared content, while editors contribute according to their roles and access domains.
Boldo hosts its data in France.
Every organization is different. Boldo offers a flexible and evolving metamodel, started from a proven template, adapted to your context and your level of maturity. You can then progressively enrich it, as uses, needs, and team skills grow. The model adjusts to the organization, and not the other way around.
Boldo lets you present the same knowledge in several forms: views, diagrams, charts, nested maps and dashboards. Each format answers a different need, from detailed exploration to presenting indicators.
Starting at 39 € excl. VAT per editor/month, with detailed public prices on the pricing page (Enterprise on quote). Sign-up is self-service, with a free 14-day trial, no commitment.
Boldo offers support on quote, tailored to your project: metamodel scoping, data import, governance and skill-building for contributors.
| SAP LeanIX | Boldo | |
|---|---|---|
Pricing | ||
| Pricing model | By number of applications, with tiers | Starting at 39 € excl. VAT per editor/month (Enterprise on quote) |
| Users | Unlimited in the published APM offering | Depending on the chosen plan |
| Public prices | Pricing on quote | Prices shown on the pricing page |
| Access to the product | Demo request | Self-service, free 14-day trial, no commitment |
Collaboration and rights | ||
Modeling | ||
Visualization and planning | ||
Data and automation | ||
Ardoq is a graph-oriented enterprise architecture platform. It connects applications, systems and processes in a data repository, offers target (to-be) architecture scenarios and an API to automate collection and updates.
HOPEX is the platform historically developed by MEGA International. Since the merger of MEGA and Bizzdesign, it has been part of the Bizzdesign portfolio.
It positions itself in regulated industries and the public sector, where it is used to structure EA, compliance, risk management and governance.
The solution is mainly aimed at organizations looking to formalize their architecture in a comprehensive way, relying on solid repositories and methodological frameworks.
SAP LeanIX provides a best-practice metamodel and recommends starting with the assessment of the application portfolio before extending usage. It is therefore not accurate to reserve it for organizations that are already mature.
Boldo provides a configurable default metamodel. In both cases, getting started depends on the scope, data quality and the governance put in place.
