A key challenge for enterprise architects has always been achieving alignment between their business leaders and the aims, priorities, and progress of their work. To support you with this, we're introducing Architecture Executive Dashboards directly within SAP LeanIX.
Enterprise architecture is a complicated practice. Understanding vast amounts of data from across an organization's entire IT landscape is challenging enough, but relaying your findings to your colleagues can be just as time-consuming.
Creating summary slide decks and diagrams to convey complex data to leaders can take enterprise architect's focus away from their work optimizing their IT landscape. Reducing this effort is one of the key benefits of SAP LeanIX.
We often hear that the visualizations and dashboards within our interface are so user-friendly that IT leaders ask their enterprise architects to skip the presentation and show them the data directly in SAP LeanIX. As such, we've added the ability to create Architecture Executive Dashboards to offer exactly the information you need to share with your leaders.
To get hands-on with our new Architecture Executive Dashboards yourself, book a demo:
A Brief History Of Enterprise Architecture
"[Enterprise Architecture is] the set of descriptive representations (i.e., models) that are relevant for describing an enterprise such that it can be produced to management's requirements (quality) and maintained over the period of its useful life."
Enterprise architecture has always been about aligning an organization's technology with its business strategy. That means explaining the complex architecture of your IT landscape to your leadership in the context of that strategy without wasting their time with unnecessary technical details.
Technical enterprise architecture concepts aren't as important to leadership as what that technology can do to help the organization achieve its goals. As such, a large part of the work of an enterprise architect is explaining the value of technology to non-technical stakeholders.
This becomes even more challenging when bandwith becomes a factor. We all know how busy leaders are and just how many areas of a business they need to oversee, so there's a need to provide them with just the information they need to make a confident decision quickly.
Thankfully, modern digital tools allow you to show them the exact relevant information they need to see to make those choices, without having to create illustrations and representations that they have to trust align with the real data. To support you with this, you can new create a dashboard within SAP LeanIX that constantly provides live data relevant to business leaders.
Aligning IT With Business Strategy
With all the work of presenting data to leadership automated within a dashboard, enterprise architects can focus on data quality for their EA data repository. They can then act as consultants to discuss action to take as a result of the data, rather than having to spend their time preparing slide decks about the data.
Meanwhile, business leaders can access relevant data about their IT landscape, 24 hours a day. This allows them to make rapid decisions on their IT operations without having to wait for a meeting to be put together.
Accessible, live data allows SAP LeanIX to act as a single source of truth. Rather than spending time communicating and aligning on the current state of your application portfolio, both EA and leadership can start conversations already familiar with the situation, so everyone can focus on solving problems instead of just discussing them.
This mutual understanding based on objective data builds trust and enhances collaboration between IT and the rest of the business, allowing everyone to work together more productively. We feel this alignment is the key to successfully optimizing your IT landscape.
Gain Visibility With Architecture Executive Dashboard
Our new Architecture Executive Dashboard within SAP LeanIX provides a friendly dashboard that showcases real-time,. executive-relevant information about your application portfolio. This allows IT leaders to gain an understanding of their IT landscape without having to wait for enterprise architects to put the information together in a presenation.
The dashboard provides application data in context through a predefined set of key performance indicators (KPIs), filtered views, and historical trends. This allows executives to track data quality, technical and functional fit, iapplication rationalization status, and other information about each application.
SAP LeanIX Architecture Executive Dashboards
With the incredible pace of the modern market, making rapid, informed decisions is vital. This is particularly the case when it comes to the ever-evolving technology of enterprise IT.
Business leaders need up-to-date intelligence to make the right decisions when it comes to business strategy. This can be challenging with vast amounts of complex IT data, and putting together the right information leaders need is a time-consuming process.
Rather than manually putting together presentations, the SAP LeanIX Architecture Executive Dashboard allows enterprise architects to put relevant, live data directly into the hands of business leaders. This empowers them to make decisions.
On the other hand, enterprise architects will find it far easier to align with leadership once executives have access to curated views of the same data they're seeing. Rather than explaining the current state of their IT landscape, they can focus on working with aligned leaders to improve it.
To get hands-on with our new Architecture Executive Dashboards yourself, book a demo:
