Use Case

ERP Transformation

Accelerate and de-risk your ERP modernization

ERP transformation is a critical piece of an enterprise’s broader business and technology strategy. It also represents a major project that impacts every part of the business.

Given the complexity of ERP systems, a successful transformation requires a thorough understanding of your current IT landscape, careful planning with well-defined milestones, and collaboration between business and IT.

With SAP LeanIX, you can obtain clear visibility into your current ERP and non-ERP landscape, allowing you to properly plan and guide your ERP transformation journey.

Customer Story

Making “impossible” transformations possible

"Without the support of LeanIX, a cost-efficient and smooth transition from our old landscape to the new SAP S/4HANA software landscape would not have been possible."

Oliver Dawid, IT Enterprise Architect

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Customer Story

Driving modernization with a single source of truth

"It’s hard to move to a better operating model if you don’t know what you’re actually doing or how things work today.
By establishing systems of record around process, technology, and business capabilities, Travis Perkins has laid the groundwork for true IT modernization."

David Crooks,
Enterprise Architect

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Your guide to navigating transformations

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Your guide to navigating transformations

Every transformation is driven by a strategic approach, and yours deserves the right one

Enable a successful ERP transformation with full visibility into your current IT landscape and a road map towards the target state, aligning strategy with execution for sustainable business growth

Strategize and get to a decision

Align strategy and decisions to scope target architecture and deliver tangible, measurable value
Eliminate blind spots in applications and their dependencies as the basis for simplifying and streamlining your IT landscape
Drive growth and innovation by unlocking new opportunities and high-impact initiatives

Plan and realize your target state

Align stakeholders for success with clear roles from strategy to execution
Minimize risks, maximize value by preventing disruptions and tracking impact
Speed up success with a transformation road map to achieve your target architecture

Evolve while maintaining standards

Drive innovation and control with strong governance using clearly defined frameworks and standards
Enhance visibility across systems, extensions and dependencies
Continuously optimize IT landscape by reducing complexity and managing risks proactively

Confidently navigate your ERP transformation using RISE with SAP Methodology

SAP LeanIX is a key part of the integrated toolchain from SAP, helping you drive success throughout your SAP S/4HANA journey and map perfectly against the framework provided by RISE with SAP methodology.

Gain visibility and transparency into your as-is architecture

Get started by importing application data from Excel or through our well-documented open APIs
Leverage automated SaaS, SAP landscape and SAP extension discovery feature for continuous, automated visibility into your SaaS, SAP applications (cloud and on-prem) and extensions
Document interfaces to understand dependencies between different applications and assess your current and future integration architecture
Foster collaboration between stakeholders and efficiently gather important data through surveys

Support the business case by aligning initiatives with strategic goals

Understand the strategic relevance of business capabilities to scope and guide target architecture decisions
Align transformation initiatives with key objectives and requirements
Enable alignment between business and IT with frictionless integration between SAP LeanIX and SAP Signavio solutions, syncing business context and applications

Explore gaps between your as-is and to-be architectures

Define your target state using reference catalogs and document your architecture decisions
Model different architectures using Free Draw capabilities (e.g., one global ERP or multiple systems by region or business unit)
Understand the impact of change with delta views in both SAP Signavio and SAP LeanIX

Define and visualize your transformation road map

Visualize the impact of your transformation approach on your IT landscape at defined milestones
Create a detailed transformation road map including Initiatives and subprojects
Track progress and gain visibility into progress by syncing projects across SAP Cloud ALM solution and SAP LeanIX

Document and communicate architectural changes

Keep enterprise architecture documentation up-to-date and automatically execute impacts after the completion of a project
Track transformation progress to measure stages of completion and quantify cost savings
Communicate the impact of transformation on Business and IT architecture to stakeholders

Stay ready for continuous transformation

Regularly evaluate your core system’s compliance, including applications and possible extensions, using the radar report
Assess the functional and technical fit of architecture elements over time and drive continuous improvement
Identify vulnerabilities and uncover optimization opportunities through ongoing assessment of your IT landscape

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 ERP Transformation.

"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

Enterprise (>1000 emp.)

May 09, 2023

"Awesome EAM Tool, that uses collaboration to achieve EAM goals

LeanIX does provide a simple and easy way to get an overview over the current in the company used applications and its connecting Technologies. It achieves this via giving everyone in th ecompany the opportunity to fill and assist with getting information where it needs to be. The Reports are making it easy to get an overview and also provide the executive level with the needed data for making decisions."

Verified User - Renewables & Environment

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 Architect - Enterprise (>1000 emp.)

May 09, 2023

"Flexibility Configurability Simplicity

Flexible to use its components *factsheets for a variety of purposes. Highly cofigurable to accomodate needs. Simple to intuitive to use. A tool not just for architects, but for a broader technical and even functional (business arch) community."

Verified User in Government Administration

Enterprise (>1000 emp.)

Jun 07, 2023

"LeanIX - An Essential Tool Every Enterprise Organization Must Have

Ease of implementation and speed of discovery. Porta user interface is friendly and easy to use"

William C.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

Jun 07, 2023

"One of the most worthful applications we introduced in my former company

It creates the transparency over IT landscape that we did not had before and to speed up decision making"

Verified User in Automotive

Enterprise (>1000 emp.)

May 09, 2023

"Lean EAM Tool with easy to understand user interface

Collaboration, Easy Configuration, Simple User Interface, everybody can participate to feed in architecture content and also receive the content; Integrations are easy to set up."

Verified User in Automotive

Enterprise (>1000 emp.)

May 09, 2023

"unlock exciting opportunities

The LeanIX EA tool provides exxciting opportunities by e.g. introducing ESG matters in the portfolio. I highly value the PwC ESG tool as it unlocks necessary developments for now and the future."

Verified User in Food Production

Enterprise (>1000 emp.)

May 09, 2023

"Great Usability. Open Integration. Good company and continuous improvement of the product.

The lean UI and intuitive usage. Lots of integration and Report functions. Active Community and feedback driven development of the product."