SAP LeanIX
SAP LeanIX roles are organized around fact sheet types and aligned with different user needs in the organization. Key roles, such as domain architect, enterprise architect, business analyst, and application owner, have defined responsibilities that enable effective supervision of architectural components across the enterprise.
SAP LeanIX Roles and Responsibilities:
| SAP LeanIX Fact Sheet | Responsible Role | Role Description | Subscription Roles |
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| Business Capability | Domain architect | The domain architect is responsible for the full architecture stack within a defined domain (for example, the business capability 'CRM'). They maintain a holistic view of all architecture information in the domain, ensure its accuracy, involve domain initiatives, and approve major architecture decisions that affect the domain. |
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| Organization | Enterprise architect | The enterprise architect ensures the organizational model is kept up to date and that major contracts are maintained. They add new user groups as needed, such as 'Dev/Ops,' which are becoming increasingly important in business integration discussions within SAP LeanIX. |
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| Business Context | Business analyst | The business analyst analyzes the company’s business context and derives process-driven requirements for IT to better shape the business. Business context modeling and maintenance often take place in tools such as SAP Signavio, which integrate with SAP LeanIX. |
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| Application | Application owner | The application owner is responsible for ensuring the delivery, operation, and ongoing development of an application to meet user needs. They also oversee content processing and data input. |
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| Data Object | Data architect | The data architect defines and maintains the data model used for enterprise architecture. Because the level of detail depends on the use case, they collaborate with key stakeholders, such as the data protection officer, to define and monitor requirements. They ensure clarity on what data is mastered and processed in which systems and define related operations. |
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| Initiative | Enterprise architect | The enterprise architect ensures that the initiative roadmap is closely aligned with the target architecture. They make sure individual projects are linked to the relevant capabilities, applications, and IT components affected by the initiative. |
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| IT Component | Technology Architect | The technology architect ensures that IT components for each application are properly defined, categorized, maintained, and planned. Their role is to ensure IT aligns with the technology strategy to secure application provider services, including SaaS models |
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| Provider | Enterprise architect | In line with the technology architecture, the enterprise architect ensures that provider information is always up to date. They provide IT procurement with a sufficient baseline to define and assess provider strategy and manage providers effectively. |
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| Tech Category | Technology architect | The technology architect defines and maintains a stable technology category model, ensuring that its relationships to IT components are complete and consistent. |
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| Objective | Enterprise architect | Objectives describe what an organization aims to achieve. They drive initiatives to improve business capabilities and transform IT over the mid- to long-term. The objectives fact sheet defines the key performance indicators used to measure success. Objectives are linked to business capabilities and initiatives, enabling progress tracking over time |
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SAP Signavio
SAP Signavio roles can be organized into foundational and incremental categories for different use cases.
Foundational roles, such as the process architect, establish essential competencies for effective process management and governance.
Incremental roles, like the process analyst and BPM project management, focus on advanced capabilities, including process mining and continuous improvement.
SAP Signavio Roles and Responsibilities:
| Role | Location | Role Category | Service/Function |
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| BPM CoE lead | CoE | Foundational |
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| Process modeler | CoE | Foundational |
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| Tool administrator | CoE | Foundational |
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| Process owner | Business | Foundational |
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| Process lead/expert | CoE | Incremental - Continuous improvement |
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SAP Cloud ALM
Key roles in SAP Cloud ALM are organized by functional area to support user management and application lifecycle tasks. It uses predefined authorization roles to simplify access control. The following roles apply to the areas of administration and implementation in SAP Cloud ALM:
| Capability | Role | Description |
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| Change and deployment management | Change manager | Approve features for production deployment |
| Deployment manager | Deploy transports into test and production systems | |
| Project management | Project lead | Edit projects and all associated tasks, scopes, requirements, documents, and test cases. View the landscape |
| Project member | View projects and deployment plans. Manage tasks, scopes, requirements, features (with restrictions), documents, test cases, and defects | |
| SAP readiness check | Readiness Check analysis administrator | Create, edit, and delete SAP Readiness Check analyses |
Lesson Summary
- SAP LeanIX Roles: Domain architects, enterprise architects, and application owners manage architectural components and ensure data accuracy.
- SAP Signavio Roles: BPM CoE leads, process modelers, and process owners establish process management and governance.
- SAP Cloud ALM Roles: Change managers, deployment managers, and project leads support user management and application lifecycle tasks.
- Role Alignment: Aligning roles with specific responsibilities enhances governance and streamlines processes.
- Tool Utilization: Understanding roles optimizes the use of each tool, improving efficiency and alignment with business goals.