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Use Case

Application Rationalization

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

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Optimizing your application portfolio is key to controlling costs and driving agility.

Continuous rationalization makes it possible, but only with complete visibility, strong data quality, and a solution that deliver value fast

Benefits Reported by SAP LeanIX Customers

5 months

average payback period

25  %

application reduction opportunity identified

10  %

of applications decommissioned within 12 months

Estée Lauder

Application Portfolio Optimization

"The first step in doing the Application Portfolio Optimization is acquiring the entire landscape of applications."

Dawitt Lessanu, Executive Director of EA - Estée Lauder

HOW IT WORKS

Control complexity and costs with SAP LeanIX

Easily scope applications

  • Filter the applications based on their lifecycle, business capability, functional and technical fit, and more
  • Use customizable surveys to gather application details and cost information from responsible owners
  • Import inventory data and costs through out-of-the-box integrations with cost management tools.
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Evaluate applications

  • Use predefined reports to identify low-value, high-cost applications and savings opportunities
  • Assess applications with TIME framework and keep categories up-to date with automated calculations
  • Automatically aggregate total cost of ownership and allocate costs to business capabilities, organizations, regions, or business units
  • Review dependencies before retiring or consolidating, and document decisions in structured templates with owner, due date, impact, and rationale

Create your rationalization roadmap

  • Prioritize quick wins and create a series of initiatives for your application rationalization effort, linking them to strategic objectives
  • Use predefined roadmap reports to visualize initiative timelines, their statuses and dependencies.
  • Use transformation templates to design the future state and see the impact on your architecture before execution
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Track status and report progress

  • Leverage pre-defined Dashboards for tracking, reporting, and sharing the progress of your application rationalization initiative
  • Share executive-ready views to highlight savings and strategic impact
  • Implement regular application review cycles to stay on top of your evolving application portfolio
Chandra Venkat

“Today, every business 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

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CUSTOMER QUOTES

Why customers choose SAP LeanIX

Don't just take our word for it - read about how our customers have experienced SAP LeanIX to get on top of their application rationalization.

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"User friendly and best in class EA tool

Very easy to use, very user friendly and a great and easy UI. Enables collaboration with many users of different backgrounds. The provided services like Reference Catalogues are very valuable. Customer Success Managers are great!"

Verified User
Pharmaceuticals Industry - Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
May 09, 2023

"LeanIX Forever

An organised space. Practical. Reports designation. Intuitive platform."

Vikram T.
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
May 08, 2023

"Great tool, focusing on impact, evolving rapidly.

Modern and ergonomic UI, great standard integrations, constantly getting better and expanding features. Easy to understand and to explain Data Model ready for use. Focused approached on outcome and reports. LeanIX company culture is open, modern, agile. This is a really good partner with good influence, especially for us as a public company.

Henry N.
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
May 09, 2023

"A pragmatic approach to EAM

Simple interface, pragmatic approach to Enterprise Architecture, no fee for additional user lisences"

Kenneth R.
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jun 08, 2023

"Very professional, context bases

Modern UI, professional project support by LeanIX, valuable customer community"

Thorsten L.
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
May 07, 2023

"That's all about people - good connection with the LeanIX Team

Connection with Customer Success Manager. Performance of the tool is really good"

Zofia D.
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jun 23, 2023

"Informative & Worth your time

The simplicity of the concept and the initial configuration for your 1st model"

Randy V.
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jun 07, 2023

"Great development since my first touch point in 2013. Lot‘s of functionalities, intuitive...

Diagrams, structure, flexibility, new concepts ,..."

Verified User
Utilities Industry - Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
May 08, 2023

"Great EA start, that last long

LeanIX offers a low learning curve for staters but still is very powerful laterwards. Therefore it offers a good starting point in the EA discipline without all of the theoretical background which ist also there if you need it."

Bela B.
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
May 08, 2023

"Maturing from application inventory to application management is significantly easier with LeanIX

Best practices metamodel to serve as a starting point for our implementation and the success managers"

Verified User
Financial Services Industry - Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jun 08, 2023
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