Use Case

Obsolescence risk management

Proactively identify and manage obsolete technology in your IT landscape.

Obsolescence risk management

Applications running on outdated infrastructure create risks that can pose significant financial, reputational, and regulatory consequences.
Knowing which components are reaching their end of life/end of support – and when – is crucial in addressing risks before they become threats.
Leverage SAP LeanIX to proactively manage obsolescence for a more resilient IT landscape.

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Customer Story

Reduce IT costs and tech debt by managing end-of-life components

“Today, every leader in the organization knows which applications require rationalization or can be considered as candidates for cloud modernization.”

Chandra Venkat, Associate Director Enterprise Architecture, Carrier

Customer Story

Meet regulatory requirements by proactively managing obsolescence

"LeanIX has become our system of record for data classification. We used innovation with LeanIX to help support our GRC, compliance, and legal discovery initiatives."
          
Tim Terry, Enterprise Architect, Sargento Foods Inc.

Proactively manage obsolescence risk in your IT landscape

Identify and remove infrastructure components that are reaching their end-of-life/end-of-support to ensure resilient IT portfolios in the future.

Discover your infrastructure

Discover your infrastructure

  • Automate inventory building with the out-of-the-box ServiceNow integration or your custom integration to any other CMDB 

  • Connect your application portfolio to the infrastructure layer  

  • Streamline your inventory by eliminating duplicates and consolidating versions 

Track your progress

  • Link fact sheets to the reference catalog to enrich them with up-to-date lifecycle data.  

  • Reduce manual effort by offloading lifecycle data maintenance to the reference catalog.  

  • Monitor coverage of lifecycle data for accurate risk assessments.

Application Landscape

  • Accelerate obsolescence risk assessments using built-in reports.

  • Evaluate how outdated IT components impact critical applications.

  • Identify urgency by pinpointing unaddressed obsolescence risk, now and in the future.

  • Prioritize unaddressed obsolescence risks based on business criticality.

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  • Surface risk to application owners and make collaborative remediation decisions: accept or address.

  • Make risk dispersion programs transparent by documenting reasons for acceptance.

  • Plan revisions by setting up automated alerts.

Roadmap risk mitigation initiatives and track progress

Roadmap risk mitigation initiatives and track progress

  • Proactively reduce obsolescence with technology upgrade road maps.

  • Prioritise risk mitigation initiatives to allocate resources effectively.  

  • Monitor obsolescence risk levels continuously with pre-built dashboards.