Empower Your IT Landscape:

SAP LeanIX streamlines ERP transformations such as S/4HANA by providing tools for collaboration, planning, and architecture visualisation, delivering significant benefits:

• Informed Decision-Making: Conducts an as-is assessment to understand the current landscape and impact of ERP transformations, enabling data-driven decisions and a strong foundation for the journey.
• Clear Target Architecture: Defines and documents the desired changes, timelines, and affected architecture components, ensuring clarity and direction.
• Enhanced Collaboration: Serves as a central platform for collaboration, allowing stakeholders to engage, update, and contribute to the transformation roadmap effectively.
• Data-Driven Support: Offers real-time data and visualisations within SAP LeanIX, facilitating tracking of transformation progress and adjustments, and providing stakeholders with current information and insights.
• Ongoing Transformation Monitoring: Continues to offer visibility and insights into the application portfolio, supporting effective monitoring and execution of changes throughout and beyond the ERP transformation.

Business capabilities are essential tools that align what a business must do to execute its defined strategy effectively. They serve as a bridge between strategy and execution by organising activities and resources strategically. 

• Link Strategy to Execution: Aligns key performance indicators and funding with strategic pillars, ensuring activities support overarching goals.
• Competitive Advantage: Focuses on core capabilities, allowing standardisation of supporting activities and outsourcing of non-critical functions.
• Comprehensive Understanding: Provides a 360-degree view of the enterprise, enhancing insights into business motivations, capabilities, processes, data, and resources.
• Common Language: Establishes a clear, actionable framework for business and IT, facilitating communication across the organisation without technical jargon.
• Efficient Solutions: Leads to more accurate architectural definitions that drive effective and efficient technology solutions.
• Cost Efficiency: Promotes the reuse of IT assets, reducing unnecessary expenditures on software and hardware and speeding up time to market.
• Organisational Cohesion: Helps break down silos within IT and business, fostering a capability-centric organisation design that accelerates project delivery.

Define the future state of your enterprise architecture, assess the effects of your transformations, and develop actionable technology roadmaps to confidently guide your business transformation.

• Visualise Future Architecture: Model and report on the target state of your enterprise architecture to secure stakeholder buy-in before starting.
• Enhance Transformation Planning: Use predefined and configurable transformations to understand their impact on your current state and outline the necessary roadmap for implementation.
• Document and Execute Transformations: Track and record your progress during the transformation process, keeping your current state information updated and primed for subsequent changes.

Manage technology risks by pinpointing, evaluating, and addressing risks in IT systems and processes. Safeguard critical assets, maintain business continuity, and adhere to regulatory and standard requirements.

• Integrate with CMDB: Identify IT components by connecting with your Configuration Management Database (CMDB), using out-of-the-box integration like ServiceNow.
• Information: Keep lifecycle data for your IT components current.
• Address Obsolescence Risk: Proactively manage risks related to technology obsolescence and set technology standards.

The SAP LeanIX Meta Model allows organisations to realise value by rapidly transforming enterprise architecture data into actionable insights. This facilitates swift, informed decision-making and leading to accelerated end-to-end business transformations.

• Comprehensive Coverage: Provides an overarching view and encompasses all layers of Enterprise Architecture.
• Structured Dimensions: Organises data within four crucial dimensions:
  • Strategy & Transformation
  • Business Architecture
  • Application & Data Architecture
  • Technical Architecture

• Pre-defined Meta Model: Allows organisations to swiftly extract value by converting data into insights, these insights into actionable steps, and these actions into quantifiable outcomes.