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Application Portfolio Management

Gain continuous visibility of your application landscape, connect it to business context, and turn insights into fast, confident decisions

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5 months

average time to value ¹

$422 k

average IT budget reduction ¹

80 %

increase in transparency in 12 weeks ²

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Learn more about the capabilities of SAP LeanIX and how they can deliver real impact for your enterprise architecture

Build a trustworthy inventory

Stop manually collecting data in spreadsheets, and move to a continuously updated view of your IT landscape through automated discovery, best-practice reference content, and digital collaboration:

Discover applications across your landscape using integrations and AI assistance
Crowdsource data from stakeholders to enrich your inventory and maintain accuracy
Maintain data accuracy with guided best-practice templates and quality seals that keep your inventory current

Understand dependencies and impact

See how applications, interfaces, and IT components connect across your IT landscape to understand the impact before decisions are made:

Map applications to business context to gain visibility into dependencies and risks
Establish clear ownership to strengthen governance, and reduce security risks
Give AI agents governed access to your enterprise architecture data to generate faster, deeper insights

Optimize application spend

Enable data-driven application rationalization with shared views and standard criteria that help stakeholders align faster:

Use predefined reports to evaluate applications based on total cost of ownership, usage, and other criteria
Apply the Gartner TIME[R] framework to categorize each application and standardize rationalization decisions
Understand the full impact of retiring an application before you make a final decision

Build a trustworthy inventory

Understand dependencies and impact

Optimize application spend

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SAP LeanIX Application Portfolio Management features

Everything you need to ensure data quality and encourage collaboration as you build an EA repository to meet the needs of all stakeholders across the business

Data import and automated discovery

Create a constantly updated inventory of your IT landscape built from imported data, a rich ecosystem of integrations, open APIs, and even AI-support
- Import data from Excel spreadsheets, open APIs, and a rich ecosystem of integrations to build your application inventory
- Automatically discover SaaS applications and SAP systems, services, and custom-built extensions
- Extract architectural elements and relationships from diagrams and images with our AI-assisted inventory builder
Data import and automated discovery

Create a constantly updated inventory of your IT landscape built from imported data, a rich ecosystem of integrations, open APIs, and even AI-support
Import data from Excel spreadsheets, open APIs, and a rich ecosystem of integrations to build your application inventory

Automatically discover SaaS applications and SAP systems, services, and custom-built extensions

Extract architectural elements and relationships from diagrams and images with our AI-assisted inventory builder
Best-practice meta model

Leverage our proven, best-practice meta model template to capture and standardize architecture data across your organization
- Accelerate time-to-value with a best-practice foundation
- Configure the meta model so that it grows with your organization, without limits or custom development
- Scale your EA practice with confidence by standardizing how information is captured and stored
Best-practice meta model

Leverage our proven, best-practice meta model template to capture and standardize architecture data across your organization
Accelerate time-to-value with a best-practice foundation

Configure the meta model so that it grows with your organization, without limits or custom development

Scale your EA practice with confidence by standardizing how information is captured and stored
Reference catalog

Access our ready-to-use reference catalog, including industry-specific business capability maps you can import and adapt
- Enrich your portfolio with standardized reference data for business capabilities, applications, IT components, and tech categories
- Improve data quality and standardization, reducing manual effort for data entry and naming conventions
- Speed up business capability mapping with best-practice, ready-to-use models tailored to different industries
Reference catalog

Access our ready-to-use reference catalog, including industry-specific business capability maps you can import and adapt
Enrich your portfolio with standardized reference data for business capabilities, applications, IT components, and tech categories

Improve data quality and standardization, reducing manual effort for data entry and naming conventions

Speed up business capability mapping with best-practice, ready-to-use models tailored to different industries
Collaboration features

Reduce co-ordination effort by bringing stakeholders together in SAP LeanIX for updates and validation
- Enable organization-wide collaboration with an unlimited number of users
- Gain input from application owners through configurable surveys, to-dos, and quality seals
- Engage with your stakeholders outside of your IT team by offering them access to customized dashboards hosting curated information, resources, reports, and diagrams
Collaboration features

Reduce co-ordination effort by bringing stakeholders together in SAP LeanIX for updates and validation
Enable organization-wide collaboration with an unlimited number of users

Gain input from application owners through configurable surveys, to-dos, and quality seals

Engage with your stakeholders outside of your IT team by offering them access to customized dashboards hosting curated information, resources, reports, and diagrams
Calculations and automations

Use our built-in automations and calculations to reduce manual effort and save time on repetitive tasks
- Automatically populate and update attributes based on other data in your inventory, or computing metrics like cost, risk, and complexity
- Ensure data consistency by standardizing how data is calculated across your inventory
- Trigger no-code, rule-based workflows to keep data accurate without manual intervention
Calculations and automations

Use our built-in automations and calculations to reduce manual effort and save time on repetitive tasks
Automatically populate and update attributes based on other data in your inventory, or computing metrics like cost, risk, and complexity

Ensure data consistency by standardizing how data is calculated across your inventory

Trigger no-code, rule-based workflows to keep data accurate without manual intervention
Decisions

Capture, structure, and document your architectural decisions across domains and initiatives using standardized templates
- Improve transparency and visibility by making architectural intent and trade-offs explicit
- Enable faster strategic alignment by directly supporting business strategy and transformational goals
- Mitigate risk early by ensuring changes follow agreed standards and guardrails
Decisions

Capture, structure, and document your architectural decisions across domains and initiatives using standardized templates
Improve transparency and visibility by making architectural intent and trade-offs explicit

Enable faster strategic alignment by directly supporting business strategy and transformational goals

Mitigate risk early by ensuring changes follow agreed standards and guardrails
Dashboards

Bring portfolio insights together in customizable views that present trends across your application landscape
- Track data quality, functional and technical fit, total cost of ownership and other metrics through pre-defined KPIs with color-coded indicators and historical trends
- Enable faster data-driven decisions by giving stakeholders direct access to key portfolio insights
- Reduce manual reporting and highlight where executive attention is required to measure progress
Dashboards

Bring portfolio insights together in customizable views that present trends across your application landscape
Track data quality, functional and technical fit, total cost of ownership and other metrics through pre-defined KPIs with color-coded indicators and historical trends

Enable faster data-driven decisions by giving stakeholders direct access to key portfolio insights

Reduce manual reporting and highlight where executive attention is required to measure progress
Reports and diagrams

Gain a real-time overview of your IT landscape with automated reports and diagrams to visualize applications based on key criteria
- Assess applications based on functional fit, technical fit, cost, lifecycle status, and many other categories
- Visualize your architecture landscape with diagrams connected to inventory data showing dependencies and relationships across the portfolio
- Help stakeholders understand complex information quickly and collaborate on informed decision-making
Reports and diagrams

Gain a real-time overview of your IT landscape with automated reports and diagrams to visualize applications based on key criteria
Assess applications based on functional fit, technical fit, cost, lifecycle status, and many other categories

Visualize your architecture landscape with diagrams connected to inventory data showing dependencies and relationships across the portfolio

Help stakeholders understand complex information quickly and collaborate on informed decision-making

Elevate your enterprise architecture practice with AI

Leverage AI throughout SAP LeanIX and move from documentation to decision-making. Less manual effort. More strategic impact.

Embedded AI

Spend less time searching,  more time deciding.

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Architecture Guidance

Move from insight to action without the guesswork.

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Inventory Builder

Build a complete, accurate  repository in a fraction of the time.

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AI Copilot

Make architecture data accessible to everyone.

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Ai agent hub

Discover, manage, and govern AI agents across the organization

AI agent hub is your central location for discovering, managing, and governing AI agents across the organization.

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Use Cases

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Application Portfolio Management to drive strategic initiatives

Solve today's problems and get ready for tomorrow's challenges

Application Portfolio Assessment

Have a consistent overview of your application landscape, IT components, and business capabilities

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Application Rationalization

Continuous application rationalization allows you to confidently optimize IT costs and promote operational agility

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AI Governance

A robust framework for supporting AI governance and tracking initiatives

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Application Modernization

Future-proof your IT landscape with proper modernization planning, management, and tracking

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ERP Transformation

Accelerate and de-risk your ERP modernization

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Obsolescence Risk Management

Pro-actively identify and manage obsolete technology in your IT landsacpe

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Leverage the complete SAP LeanIX solution

Gain visibility, plan your future architecture, and reduce risk—all in one approach.