SAP LeanIX
More than an EAM tool
Optimize Your Enterprise Architecture with SAP LeanIX
In a dynamic business world, it is crucial to maintain an overview of your own IT landscape to meet complex challenges successfully. SAP LeanIX enables you to do just that. SAP LeanIX is a holistic solution for your Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM). It goes far beyond classic EAM. SAP LeanIX shows you the (IT) systems used by your organization and supports you in the future-proof design and optimization of your enterprise architecture. SAP LeanIX also offers interfaces to your process and data management tools, such as SAP Signavio or BIC from GBTec. Information is automatically transferred from one system to the other, increasing the efficiency and accuracy of your IT management.
SAP LeanIX integrates seamlessly into your existing software - whether purchased or developed in-house - and includes planned IT systems that are not yet used. This gives you maximum transparency about the interaction of your existing and planned systems right from the start and allows you to recognize the effects of changes and potential risks at an early stage.
The collaborative approach of SAP LeanIX also encourages your teams to work together and creates a shared knowledge base for your business transformation.
Flexibility and Adaptability with SAP LeanIX
Today, software is business-critical. For many companies, however, the application landscape is a black box that continues to grow. With the help of SAP LeanIX, you can not only capture the business criticality of your systems from the outset. You can also create transparency for change projects at an early stage by planning the introduction of new software and the end-of-life of existing software. As SAP LeanIX maps the interrelationships between your systems, you can recognize the effects of your project before you start operational implementation. With Enterprise Architecture Management, you can minimize your risks, identify weaknesses at an early stage and exploit optimization potential.
A common database is more important than ever before in order to make well-founded decisions that have a lasting positive impact on your company's success. With SAP LeanIX, you can do just that. An unlimited number of users allows you to use SAP LeanIX as a single source of truth for your company. You shorten communication channels by making responsibilities and interrelationships clear and creating maximum transparency. The option of having the up-to-dateness of your systems checked regularly and automatically means that you are always up to date. This collaborative approach minimizes the effort required to keep your IT landscape and business processes up to date enormously and at the same time provides a better information basis for your employees.
The core of SAP LeanIX is a metamodel. It describes the basic components and shows the relationships between the individual elements. Each component in the metamodel has a dedicated factsheet type. Factsheets are profiles of your IT systems, processes and projects. These factsheets can be easily linked together in SAP LeanIX so that you can see at a glance which processes use which resources or which IT systems are being modernized in which project. It is not only your systems that play a role here, but also the areas in which they are used or the corporate goals to which they contribute. The metamodel is the basis that we also use for our consulting approach. In order to best meet your requirements, the metamodel can be customized by removing, adapting or adding elements.
Business Process Management and SAP LeanIX
In particular, the combination of SAP LeanIX and your tool for Business Process Management (BPM) enables you to work more efficiently. While Business Process Management provides detailed process analyses, SAP LeanIX gives a comprehensive overview of your company's application landscape. Together, they enable seamless integration and improved transparency across all business and IT areas. As SAP LeanIX is part of SAP, there is a direct interface to SAP Signavio. However, other business process applications, such as BIC, can be easily linked to SAP LeanIX. Direct factsheet integration of your business processes into your application landscape gives you more detailed insights.
You can benefit from SAP LeanIX and map your enterprise architecture without an existing business process management system. However, the full potential of SAP LeanIX only unfolds with targeted business process management. An effective way to do this is to combine the implementation of SAP LeanIX with developing or revising your business processes. Our experts will also be happy to support you here and can advise you on various BPM tools such as SAP Signavio, BIC, or others.
Advantages of SAP LeanIX
Your Possible Areas of Application for SAP LeanIX
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SAP S/4HANA Transformation
With SAP LeanIX, you can successfully implement your SAP S/4HANA transformation more effectively and sustainably. As part of SAP, SAP LeanIX offers optimal conditions to significantly support your transformation.
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Digitization
Is your company still in the midst of digital transformation? Plan the use of future applications and align them with your corporate goals and vision.
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Restructuring and mergers
SAP LeanIX can be used to record existing IT systems and analyze their benefits. This allows data-based decisions to be made when selecting tools and responsibilities to be defined.
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LeanIX in combination with SAP Signavio
Our Approach to Your SAP LeanIX Implementation
Strategy development
Together, we lay the foundation of your strategy, identify your business goals and evaluate how SAP LeanIX can support them. Our experts conduct a comprehensive consultation to develop a customized solution for your needs.
Preparation
We analyze your existing IT infrastructure and data landscape and develop a plan for transferring it to SAP LeanIX.
Implementation
Your IT systems can be entered into SAP LeanIX as an import, from the cloud or manually. We take a holistic view of your systems to identify connections, benefits and responsibilities and present them accordingly. In this way, we ensure that you receive the greatest possible degree of transparency and insightful analyses.
Enablement or full service
We offer targeted training for your team according to their needs to ensure that all users can use the functions of SAP LeanIX effectively. We strengthen the skills of your employees to use SAP LeanIX independently.
Support
Even after the successful implementation of SAP LeanIX, we remain at your side as your partner. We offer ongoing application management, support with the expansion of your IT landscape to SAP LeanIX and rapid assistance with technical questions or challenges.
Frequently Asked Questions About SAP LeanIX
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What is SAP LeanIX?
SAP LeanIX is an enterprise architecture management solution that goes beyond the actual EAM and takes a more holistic approach. SAP LeanIX not only enables you to map your entire IT landscape, but also links your applications, data and processes with your business objectives. This gives you an overview of all IT systems, their interrelationships and dependencies, which IT system is used how and where there is a need for action.
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When does it make sense to use SAP LeanIX?
In principle, using SAP LeanIX always makes sense, as Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) maps your IT landscape and helps you to maintain an overview. However, SAP LeanIX can be particularly useful in transformation projects in order to drive them forward more effectively and integrate IT systems even better into the implementation. You can also use the roadmap to plan the phasing out and future use of new systems and thus integrate them more seamlessly.
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To what extent is SAP LeanIX suitable for non-SAP applications?
Even if you use no or only a few SAP products, SAP LeanIX can be used without any restrictions. You will not notice any disadvantages in its use, and interfaces to other IT systems are also fully possible.
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Can SAP LeanIX also be introduced during an ongoing transformation?
The introduction of SAP LeanIX can also make sense during an ongoing transformation. SAP LeanIX can, for example, provide you with more structure and transparency in your transformation project. We will be happy to advise you on your individual project and requirements.
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Do I have to use SAP LeanIX for all IT systems in the entire company?
No, you can decide individually how and to what extent you use SAP LeanIX. The level of detail that makes sense here depends entirely on your objectives. We would be happy to advise you here too.
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