Exploring SAP LeanIX

SAP LeanIX is a licensed software-as-a-service subscription. It helps optimize and streamline IT architecture for enhanced efficiency and performance. SAP LeanIX provides a 360° overview of all your applications, business capabilities, and IT components so you can gain control of your expanding IT landscape and create roadmaps for major transformation initiatives.

SAP LeanIX serves as an integrated platform offering a single source of truth for an organization's IT landscape, ensuring architectural transparency, data-driven decision-making, and collaborative actions across business and IT departments. By providing better insights, SAP LeanIX enables immediate and informed decision-making, supporting enterprises to efficiently manage and modernize their Application Portfolio while optimizing IT budgets to act as a business enabler. Suitable for Enterprise Architects, CIOs, Solution Architects, IT security managers, Transformation Managers, and Application and Business Owners, SAP LeanIX equips these roles with guidance, enables effective management of tech hygiene, informs CIOs for future infrastructure and tech planning, and assists business owners in maintaining their responsibilities.

Customers use SAP LeanIX for more use cases which require data-driven decisions based on transparency of their IT landscape​

• Comprehensive assessment of current landscape to understand the impact and requirements of ERP transformation.
• Clear definition and documentation of the target architecture for effective planning.
• Enhanced collaboration across complex and diverse organizations.
• Support for critical decision-making through real-time data and visualizations.
• Continuous monitoring and execution of transformation changes, integrating with tools like Jira for improved project management capabilities.
• Improved transparency and risk reduction, aiding program and project managers in navigating technological risks and preparing decisions effectively.

Customers use SAP LeanIX for usecases, which require data-driven decisions based on transparency of their IT landscape. SAP LeanIX offers following products for enterprise architecture management:

• SAP LeanIX Application Portfolio Management: It facilitates a detailed assessment of your current application landscape by building a portfolio repository, collecting survey data, utilizing predefined reports, and evaluating using frameworks such as TIME, 6R, and Pace Layering.
• SAP LeanIX Architecture and Road Map Planning: SAP LeanIX helps plan future architecture, execute and monitor transformation projects, visualize dependencies, and support ongoing changes. Key features include milestone planning, transformation management, and differential reports to assess transformation impacts.
• SAP LeanIX Technology Risk and Compliance: This product extends the capabilities of SAP LeanIX Application Portfolio Management. It facilitates the discovery of the infrastructure layer in your application landscape and enables you to manage obsolescence risks and technology standards. This ensures operational stability and relevance of your technology stack.

SAP LeanIX aids organizations throughout their multi-year RISE with SAP transformation journey, aligning with the 6-phase SAP Activate framework.

It is particularly effective in the following four phases—Discover, Explore, Realize, and Run —helping organizations maximize transformation benefits.