Explaining the Role of Generative AI in SAP LeanIX

SAP LeanIX shows you the full scope of your software estate — bought, planned, or built. That means customers can get a complete picture of their transformation initiatives, showing the as-is and charting the to-be. SAP LeanIX provides a single source of truth for everyone in an organization, with a myriad of capabilities that enable engagement with stakeholders and sharing of analyses, reports, and architectural diagrams. It gives organizations tools to build their technology roadmap from strategy to execution.

This helps accelerate every transformation. Change and transformation are no longer an obstacle, it’s an opportunity. SAP LeanIX provides businesses with a common language and a single source of truth to make transformations happen better, faster, and with greater impact.

Application Portfolio Management is the foundation of SAP LeanIX addressing the use cases application portfolio assessment, application rationalization, and AI adoption and governance. Customers can add Technology Risk and Compliance for obsolescence risk management and technology standards management use cases. Finally, SAP LeanIX Architecture and Road Map Planning provides capabilities to help customers with application modernization and ERP transformation.

At the core, SAP LeanIX’s success is based on a proven, easy-to-understand meta model. The pre-defined, yet highly configurable, meta model covers all layers of an organization's enterprise architecture. Building on this meta model and leveraging automatically generated reports that highlight different facets of the architecture layers, customers gain insights faster than with any other enterprise architecture tool. Customers can enhance and modify the meta model according to their needs to better match their organization’s IT landscape.

See the following video to learn more about the use of SAP Signavio and SAP LeanIX for RISE transformation according to SAPs Activate method.

So how does artificial intelligence support increased efficiencies and productivity in SAP LeanIX ?

SAP LeanIX leverages AI under two models:

• AI in the SAP LeanIX meta model – supporting an enterprise architect’s goal of providing visibility into and managing AI usage within the organization
• AI capabilities embedded across the SAP LeanIX solution – AI functionality supporting enterprise architects in a variety of tasks

The extension to SAP LeanIX’s meta model enables architects to capture data on AI throughout their IT landscape. Usage, type, risk, and value potential are all fields that architects and application owners can use to gain visibility into where and how the organization is engaging with AI.

With data on AI usage, risk, potential, and type captured in SAP LeanIX, architects can filter on those attributes to get a comprehensive view of their AI landscape according to their needs. The visibility can be shared with stakeholders and is a key input in AI governance efforts that extend beyond enterprise architecture.

SAP LeanIX provides AI-supported capabilities designed to enhance productivity and further democratize the solution to all users. From leveraging AI to accelerate and facilitate more complete data within SAP LeanIX to providing AI-derived context and translations, the first batch of AI capabilities demonstrated the potential benefits of the technology when applied to enterprise architecture use cases.

Inventory AI prompt combines the information in your inventory with the power of generative AI to make enterprise architecture information more accessible and actionable. It provides a natural language interface for interacting with your enterprise architecture repository, allowing you to ask questions, query data, and receive insights using everyday language. You can use predefined requests or your own prompts to get assistance in various tasks.

Benefits:

• Enhanced decision making based on more complete data

• Up to 60% reduced time to generate architecture insights
  • More than 40% higher fact sheet data completion rate

The AI-assisted text allows you to effortlessly create or enhance various types of text content by analyzing the context and providing options to improve it through rewriting or summarizing existing text. For example, AI-assisted text analyzes the content and context of the fact sheet and generates a concise and accurate description for it.

Benefits:

• Streamline the process of creating informative descriptions, saving users time and effort
• Improved application owner productivity

• Up to 90% reduction in time required to fill application descriptions
• More than 40% higher fact sheet data completion rate

AI-generated context provides additional information and insights by analyzing existing data and context, helping users better understand tasks or requests and make informed decisions.

Benefits:

• Increased to-do assignee productivity

• Up to 30% reduction in time required complete to-dos
• 20% increased to-do completion rate

The AI-supported translation allows administrators to add and translate labels and help texts for both newly created and existing attributes in the meta model configuration. This enables you to ensure that labels and help texts for fact sheet attributes are accessible in multiple languages, facilitating a more inclusive and comprehensible user experience for all users, regardless of language preference.

Benefits:

• Save time and effort while also ensuring consistency across the translated content
• Expanded product accessibility

• More than 70% reduction in time required to translate necessary information
• Up to 30% improved translation accuracy of enterprise architecture terms

Next, let’s have a quick look at SAP LeanIX and its AI features in the context of Cloud ERP Transformation. SAP LeanIX helps you monitor and understand your IT landscape. The AI features on top that to mention are first Inventory Builder. So, this is an upcoming feature that will come up later this year. It will help you accelerate building your IT landscape inventory. You can imagine an image, an architecture diagram that you've quickly mocked up, a text document, an architecture overview PDF, any of those items will be able to be turned into the inventory items that appear in the uploaded media. The other one, the existing feature, the inventory AI prompt.

This one gives you several out-of-the-box prompts that you can query the LLM with, such as asking for five possible replacements for an application or IT component or filling the description of an application or related integration. The prompts can help architects be more productive, reducing the time spent on manual tasks and data entry. Last one is on the roadmap is an AI copilot that leverages Joule in SAP LeanIX With Joule, architects will find it easier to find and navigate to the inventory item, report, or diagram through natural language queries from anywhere within the solution.

See the following video to learn more about Inventory AI prompt to query AI based on fact sheet data.

See the following video to learn more about Efficient documentation with AI-assisted text