From a technical standpoint, it is critical to understand how these solutions integrate to enable a seamless data flow across the transformation lifecycle. Let's explore the interplay between them.
- As-Is Assessment: Establishing the Baseline
The transformation begins with a comprehensive As-Is Assessment to establish a clear baseline of the current environment. This involves two parallel streams:
- Application Architecture: We start in SAP LeanIX to model the current enterprise architecture. Through an integration with SAP Cloud ALM, which provides authentication and access to the Landscape Information Service, the existing SAP landscape can be imported into SAP LeanIX automatically. This automated process supports on-premise, SaaS, private, and public cloud SAP systems.
- Business Processes: In parallel, the process architecture is documented in SAP Signavio. This provides stakeholders with transparent, end-to-end visibility of both business processes and the supporting IT architecture. To accelerate this, teams can use prebuilt content from Value Accelerators and use process mining to gain data-driven insights into current process performance.
- Integration: Both the IT Application Architecture and the Business Process Architecture are connected and aligned via an out of the box integration between SAP LeanIX and SAP Signavio. It allows you to analyze dependencies, understanding which applications support specific processes and vice versa.
- To-Be Design: Mapping the Future State
With the As-Is baseline established, the focus shifts to designing the To-Be Architecture.
The bidirectional integration between SAP LeanIX and SAP Signavio is also crucial at the design stage. The insights at the intersection of IT and business are essential for designing the target state, as it allows you to map future-state processes designed in SAP Signavio to the target application architecture modeled in SAP LeanIX. This alignment clarifies which applications will support future processes and is supported by best practice reference architectures and content catalogues.
- Transformation Planning and Execution
Once the To-Be Architecture is defined, the project moves into Transformation Planning and Execution.
- High-level transformation initiatives and roadmaps are planned in SAP LeanIX. These are then synchronized with SAP Cloud ALM. In SAP Cloud ALM, these high-level roadmaps are translated into detailed project plans, tasks, and test cases for the implementation teams to execute.
- Similarly, once target process designs (BPMN diagrams) are finalized in SAP Signavio, they are handed over to SAP Cloud ALM for implementation. This ensures that the execution teams have the precise models needed to manage documentation, testing, and task creation.
This seamless interplay across SAP LeanIX, SAP Signavio, and SAP Cloud ALM ensures that strategy, design, and execution remain connected throughout the transformation journey.