Step 1: Understand your IT and business strategy:
Begin by understanding your current IT landscape, future goals, and the roadmap to achieve them: For example, if the goal is a 10% IT cost reduction in 2 years, you need to clarify who is involved:
- What qualifies as IT cost?
- What is the timeline scope?
To answer those questions, you should review IT and business strategy documents and define what success looks like, identify major strategy pillars, and engage relevant stakeholders.
This foundational clarity ensures a focused and effective application rationalization process
Step 2: Scope applications
With numerous applications in your IT landscape, assessing rationalization potential can be time-consuming. Streamline the process by grouping applications, such as by business capability to demonstrate benefits early. Exclude applications set for sunset or outside the target domain. Strategic grouping and focused assessments ensure a more efficient rationalization process.
Step 3: Enrich the workspace data
Examine and enhance your data in SAP LeanIX with key attributes:
This step, often the most time intensive, requires collaboration with business and technical experts. Streamline the process using surveys to automate data collection, ensuring all necessary details are efficiently captured.