Describing SAP LeanIX Within Business Transformation.

SAP LeanIX is a paid software-as-a-service subscription. It helps optimize and streamline IT architecture for enhanced efficiency and performance.

This lesson provides an overview of how customers leverage SAP LeanIX for data-driven decision-making, ensuring transparency across their IT landscape. It also highlights the SAP LeanIX products and outlines the key organizational roles involved in utilizing these tools.

• Accelerate decisions with insightful, accurate data.
• Identify areas with the highest potential for improvement.
• Align initiatives with top line, bottom line and green line goals for the transparent communication of targets.

• Remain prepared for the next transformation.
• Collaborate to create insightful and accurate analysis for all stakeholders.
• Explore ways to reduce costs and risks, or to improve support of the business.

• Maintain a holistic view of your enterprise architecture through continuous transformation.
• Monitor your improvements on predefined, custom KPIs.
• Share information about improvements with powerful reporting and diagramming capabilities.

SAP LeanIX can support the entire journey from strategy definition to successful execution.

With SAP LeanIX, you can approach the uncertainty that comes with ERP transformation with confidence.

We’ll demonstrate how SAP LeanIX empowers organizations to:

• Determine the right transformation approach (greenfield versus brownfield)
• Plan and navigate the transformation with less risk
• Document the implementation of the new ERP and track the value realization

Set transformation objectives

• Get visibility into your as-is application landscape
• Set and prioritize transformation objectives based on business need

Define your scope and what to reuse or change

• Determine whether a greenfield or brownfield approach is best
• Understand application dependencies and interfaces
• Decide if a rationalization exercise make sense first

Secure management buy-in

• Generate visualization of the as-is landscape and what can be improved

It’s about deeply understanding how things work and how they’re all connected today so that you know where to start. To overcome that transformation inertia. Without this foundational visibility, it’s impossible to set meaningful objectives, let alone gain the buy in to accomplish them.

It’s about being able to define your transformation scope – exploring what should be reused or what should change completely. Maybe there are applications you no longer need? Maybe there are certain parts of your landscape that are particularly sensitive?

Either way, this is empowering you to decide with confidence and at pace on why, what and how to change.

Gain a holistic view of the applications that support your business with full transparency into the business, data and technology layers, including their relationships to each other.

• Get a high-level overview of your SAP and non-SAP systems
• Explore the applications that support your business capabilities
• Filter the report as needed to get a variety of views on your applications and their status

With LeanIX, you can assess your application portfolio in as much depth as needed to fully understand your as-is landscape.

1. Clear the fog and shine a light on your entire application landscape with the Application Landscape report
2. This helps to understand your applications like never before. For example, you can quickly identify your SAP and non-SAP applications and how they support your business capabilities
3. .Additional insight includes; lifecycle stage, hosting type, technical fit, functional fit, and business criticality

Assess dependencies that potentially impact improvement planning with pre-defined matrix and interface reports,

customizable and filterable for a variety of views.

• Understand dependencies between applications
• Reduce risks when planning improvements
• View impacted interfaces before and after improvements

You can then drill into your landscape and further understand the dependencies. This will answer key questions like:

1. Which applications depend on one another?
2. How do the interfaces work together?
3. How will changes to one application affect the connected systems?

This offers a level of insight that helps further remove risk and uncertainty as you make the right transformation decision.

Synchronize business architecture information from SAP Signavio, like customer journeys and business processes, to LeanIX using a seamless, out-of-the-box integration between the solutions.

• Ensure business continuity by visualizing connections between application, capability and process.
• Avoid misaligned views via a single source of the truth for applications, processes and experience journeys.

And importantly, with a single source of truth, understand how applications are connected to business processes and vice versa.

This is made possible by an out-of-the-box integration with SAP Signavio.

• Leverage SAP reference architecture to efficiently design the to-be state.

• Simulate the impact of changes before executing them.
• Visualize the delta between the as-is and potential to-be state.

• Collaborate on the future state design and build a detailed roadmap.

SAP LeanIX empowers organizations by providing a structured, secure approach to go live using SAP reference architecture, ensuring a smooth transition towards a fit-to-standard transformation. This approach helps businesses become more agile and adaptable.

By leveraging SAP LeanIX, companies can avoid unexpected challenges during major transitions. The tool allows organizations to analyze the impact of changes on their application landscape and determine whether these changes align with business objectives.

What’s more, SAP LeanIX fosters collaboration between IT and business by offering a single, open source of truth. This unified platform not only aids in designing the target state—considering applications and their impacted processes—but also guides the organization through the transition with a detailed technology roadmap.

Visualize the impact of the planned improvements on your application landscape with various reports, like the Impact Report, which highlights the technical and functional fit delta of your landscape

• Determine the impact of change on your landscape
• Leverage visualizations to design the to-be state
• Provide clarity to both business and IT leaders

With LeanIX, you can leverage pre-defined Transformation templates to quickly build out plans for transformation and scenario modelling.

Here, you can compare the impact of planned Transformations on your as-is landscape with dynamic visualizations. For example, an Impact report.

Leverage a detailed landscape report that enables you to visualize and manage the expected changes between your as-is and to-be state, and secure essential input to align on the design of your to-be state.

• View the expected impact of transformation
• Understand how the changes will impact applications and the business capabilities they support
• Communicate the expected changes with business leaders and agree on your final approach

You can also visualize the delta between the as-is and the potential to-be state with time-machine-like projections.

This ensures that as you design the target state, it effectively meets and addresses your key objectives – helping to communicate the impact of change to the organizational leadership and secure buy in for the plans.

Develop a detailed and sequential roadmap

(including Initiatives and sub-projects) to visualize, track and monitor the progress of your planned technology improvements , impacts and important milestones.

• Keep all stakeholders informed and on the same page
• Visualize progress and value as the plan progresses
• Understand the sequence and timeline of initiatives

Build a technology roadmap that includes your planned transformations to ensure that there is visibility across all stakeholders. This helps to keep everyone informed and on the same page as the initiatives progress – highlighting what's coming next and how it might impact different resources and/or departments.

• Track implementation progress and value realization against objectives

• Identify and fix bottlenecks before issues arise
• Keep transparency with rapid insights and out-of-the-box dashboards

• Monitor the application landscape in its new state and continuously identify further optimization potential or vulnerabilities

Finally, on the way to implementing the Cloud ERP, it’s essential for organizations to document the change and track their value realization every step of the way.

This enables EAs and their partners to visualize progress and manage any potential issues before they become disruptions. It also visualizes the gains the organization has made against their objectives – and records the newly transformed state in real time.

This not only sets the tone for this transformation, but any continuous improvement that may be made in this new agile and flexible state.

Keep different stakeholder groups informed with customized dashboards that maintain alignment through the transformation and ensure that progress is tracked and documented as initiatives are completed.

• Gain a consolidated view of the transformation
• Maintain alignment and buy-in each step of the way
• Understand what needs to happen next

Keep track of the progress of your transformation, while providing an overview of what's still ahead.

Dashboards provide a summarized view of the important data that all stakeholders should have access to – both business and IT – to show the value and adjustments that have been realized through the transformation.

Apply recognized and standardized methodology, like the TIME and 6R frameworks, to strategically guide continuous improvement planning and ensure the most vital business capabilities are prioritized.

• Get an instant view of the best modernization candidates
• Understand which capabilities will be impacted most
• Prioritize candidates based on business strategy

When operating the organization on this new level, you’re enabled to instantly evaluate optimization candidates on a regular basis.

For example, you could leverage SAP LeanIX to:

1. Apply the TIME framework (Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, Eliminate) to quickly view the applications or areas to invest in or eliminate
2. Apply the 6R methodology (Rehost, Replatform, Rearchitect, Replace, Retain, Retire) to understand and guide how you may approach each application
3. Prioritize applications into improvement waves based on the business criticality and urgency

While the major ERP transformation has been completed, now is the time to ensure the business stays on the front foot and realizes continuous value. This helps you stay prepared for whatever comes next.