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Integrating Business Reference Architecture using SAP LeanIX

<div id="content"><p tabindex="0">In the update, with the next level RBA, you receive two use cases to leverage the previous RBA, in order to review suggested SAP solutions.</p><div class="kalturaVideoLessonWrapper"><div aria-label="" class="kalturaVideoLessonContainer" data-testid="video" id="1_1kvqk2sl"></div></div><div class="parentsection"><div class="section"><div tabindex="0"><h3>Key Points to Remember</h3></div><div tabindex="0"><h3>Integration with Business Capabilities</h3></div><div class="formalblock"></div><ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li tabindex="0">Users can link or import business capabilities, focus on specific areas like asset management, and drill down to detailed levels (e.g., level 3 of asset data and information management).</li></ul><div tabindex="0"><h3>Suggested SAP Solutions</h3></div><div class="formalblock"></div><ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li tabindex="0">For a chosen business capability, the software suggests applicable SAP solutions, such as SAP S/4HANA Cloud, highlighting deployment models (cloud or hybrid), and distinguishing between mandatory and optional applications.</li></ul><div tabindex="0"><h3>Transformation Planning</h3></div><div class="formalblock"></div><ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li tabindex="0">Users can plan transformations by selecting the appropriate options, such as combining SAP S/4HANA with the SAP Business Network, for asset collaboration. They can also set timelines and milestones for implementation.</li></ul><div tabindex="0"><h3>Creation of Initiatives</h3></div><div class="formalblock"></div><ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li tabindex="0">Initiatives can be established directly in the software, linked to business capabilities, and filled with the necessary application fact sheets. These initiatives help to organize and track the deployment of new solutions.</li></ul><div tabindex="0"><h3>Workflow</h3></div><div class="formalblock"></div><ol><li tabindex="0">Selection of Business Capability: Choose a specific business capability to explore.</li><li tabindex="0">Review Suggested Solutions: Examine suggested solutions and deployment options, consulting with subject matter experts as needed.</li><li tabindex="0">Plan Transformation: Select the preferred solutions and plan the transformation, setting goals and timelines.</li><li tabindex="0">Initiate Transformation Project: Create and define transformation initiatives, marking them with associated applications and deployment details.</li></ol><p tabindex="0">The featured SAP software provides an integrated and structured approach to managing business capabilities and planning their transformations, bridging the gap between capability planning, and actual application deployment, thus facilitating effective strategic implementations in the business landscape.</p></div></div></div>

Next Level: Business Reference Architecture

Discovering SAP Enterprise Architecture

<div><div>Discover a powerful feature that links business capabilities to suggested SAP solutions and enables planning of transformations and initiatives. Learn how to derive architectural insights and drive efficient decision-making.<br><br># This description was auto-generated #</div></div>

SAP_LeanIX_-_Next_Level_SAP_Reference_Solution_Architecture.mp4

Now I want to show you a very powerful feature. We have now either imported the business capabilities or we have linked them. I'm filtering here on level 3 and now we want to see what is the suggestion in terms of applications for specific or for a specific business capability. Let's assume I take here the asset management one, in particular asset information management and then the asset data and information management on level 3. I open up here the business capability like you know it and now under transformations you see here a new feature. You see there are suggested SAP solutions and later I can also plan some transformations. You have different options here. So the first one is saying that you can have your asset data and information management on S4HANA Cloud, for example. We have also chosen here the cloud deployment. You see we have some fact sheets which are maybe already in the workspace like S4HANA Cloud. Others are not yet there. I can also see here that we have some mandatory applications and then optional ones. And if I choose now here, instead of cloud, a hybrid deployment model, you would even find here three different options, which you of course have then to discuss with some subject matter experts to know, okay, what are the right ones in context of the requirements. But more important than here from the architectural planning point of view, once you know where to go, you can then also derive this information, the suggestions, in terms of a transformation. So what we can do here, we can now plan the transformation. Let's assume we go here for the options three that we have here as a master data management with S4 and the SAP Business Network asset collaboration. So I just click here on plan transformations. will actually open up here a fact sheet type initiative. I say this is a project. I just keep here the name like we have it in the capability. You can also link it to a parent. I will show you now what's coming next. We say, okay, we want to implement this either by milestone or certain date. Let's just take some end of the year, just some mock up here. And then we say, OK, let's take this into account. And what you see now here is that we have the two suggested applications. They are both new. As for HANA, this is the on-premise version. It does not exist in the workspace, in the repository inventory yet. But that would then be created accordingly. And I can start now here to say, OK, create transformation. And this would be then linked to the initiative, which I just defined. And I would then see it here under plan transformation for the capability that we are introducing. These two new applications based on the suggestion we have seen as part of the reference architecture. So you see, this is very powerful. So we are now linking the reference business capability with the respective solution components, which are then application fact sheets. And we can all derive it here with the help of the transformations. And we can also plan and initiate the creation of initiatives with the respective application effect sheet in it.