LeanIX: Regain control over your Enterprise Architecture
Today’s IT landscapes are complex, consisting of hundreds – if not thousands – of loosely connected applications. As these systems evolve organically, across departments, IT teams often lose sight of the bigger picture and struggle to align the IT infrastructure with business strategy and goals. Enter SAP’s LeanIX: an intuitive SaaS platform built to help organizations regain control over their enterprise architecture and bring order to the chaos.
Enterprise architecture management has been around for decades, but it’s traditionally been handled by IT experts who use complex tools to map applications and connections. Business users are hardly ever involved, while they play an ever bigger role in digitization. As a result, every department keeps building, adding, and connecting tools, turning the enterprise architecture into a tangled web of systems.
Lowering the threshold to enterprise architecture
SAP LeanIX was designed to untangle this complexity. It offers an intuitive toolkit that guides users through key steps to manage and optimize enterprise architectures:
- Enlist and visualize the IT landscape
- Map and then align the applications to the business objectives
- Design the ideal IT architecture
- Create roadmaps for IT transformation
- Share the insights and updates throughout the organisation, so that also business users can gain insight into the landscape and its components
"Think big, start small" with you enterprise architecture tool
The very first step in every enterprise architecture journey, is assessing the existing IT stack.
After completing the assessment, you can:
- spot and clean up obsolete systems and realign them to business objectives (Application realization)
- identify technical obsolescence and end-of-life risks
- analyse existing applications for gaps and much-needed improvements
- start or support your Cloud ERP transformation journey
Tip: note that EA is not an exact science and there’s no need to perfect everything from the beginning. We recommend starting small, with a set of pilot case applications, and sharing the initial results with business users to gain their buy-in. Once they see the value LeanIX brings, they will be more inclined to help map system and application data and keep it up to date.
A vital step in your Cloud ERP transformation journey
Assessing and visualizing your current enterprise architecture is a crucial first step in any ERP transformation journey. By understanding your IT landscape and its interdependencies, you can effectively plan and manage both the technical and business aspects of the transformation – ultimately accelerating the initial phase of your application and system inventory.
LeanIX is fully equipped to this process, helping you to automatically map SAP SaaS products, on-premise ERP systems and soon also Business Technology Platform landscapes.
4 reasons to invest in LeanIX
By mapping your IT landscape, you gain a clear understanding of how all your organization’s software applications are interconnected. This reveals opportunities to consolidate, standardize, and optimize your systems. As a result, you benefit from:
- Improved IT architecture management:
SAP LeanIX offers powerful tools to map and manage your IT architecture. This helps align IT with your business strategy, simplify integrations, and increase overall efficiency. - Cost savings:
LeanIX identifies duplicate or unnecessary systems and applications, allowing you to streamline your IT landscape and reduce costs by lowering complexity and improving efficiency. - Data-driven decisions:
The platform provides real-time data and insights, helping you make smarter, well-informed decisions about technology investments and resource allocation. - Supports digital transformation:
With strong capabilities to analyze and visualize your IT landscape, SAP LeanIX helps you manage digital transformation smoothly—reducing risks and keeping your organization in control during change.
Kickstart your LeanIX project with Flexso
Not sure where to start your transformation or enterprise architecture journey? To lower the threshold to LeanIX and ensure short time to value, Flexso created the LeanIX HealthCheck Package: a practical, hands-on approach to identify your way of working and needs, tailor the tool, implement it and train your users to assess your processes. Read more on our dedicated approach.
