User Role

Enterprise Architect

LeanIX is a collaborative and data-driven solution to organize and manage
as-is IT landscapes and plan future architectures.

"Unlike other products, LeanIX gives our stakeholders the reports and configurable views they need to visualize their precise architectural targets. We can address IT complexity, redundancy, and non-standardized technology faster than ever before."

Ralf Lübben, Enterprise Architect
BENTELER Business Services GmbH

1.2 million

Remove redundant applications and save $1.2 million in yearly application costs

1 million

Avoid over $1 million in additional support costs due to technical debt

20 %

Complete 20% more IT transformation projects on time

Take inventory and manage your application portfolio

Model and prioritize business capabilities using our best-practice business capability maps
Document the application landscape with all its dependencies, starting with user groups and business capabilities
Leverage in-tool data surveys and out-of-the-box integrations to enhance your data quality

Efficiently identify and rationalize redundant applications

Leverage a broad variety out-of-the-box reports to evaluate applications by technical fit, functional fit, and lifecycle
Utilize the TIME model to determine whether applications should be tolerated (T), invested in (I), migrated (M), or eliminated (E)
Start initiatives to phase out elimination candidates and keep track of your rationalization progress

Be proactive in tackling your technical debt

Gain transparency into your applications' underlying IT components, lifecycles, and providers
Identify and assess risks due to obsolete technologies
Use LeanIX's Lifecycle Catalog to obtain up-to-date lifecycle information on software and hardware
Automate data collection by synchronizing with your ITSM solution

Drive transformations with IT strategies aligned to business goals

Utilize the gained transparency of the as-is landscape to develop business strategy and transformation programs (e.g., IT modernization, SAP S/4HANA migrations, post-merger IT integrations)
Reconcile IT initiatives with strategic business objectives
Plan scenarios and model the impacts to your current architecture
Build, visualize and communicate transformation roadmaps and your future IT landscape

Customer Quotes

Why Enterprise Architects 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 enterprise architecture.

"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."

Enterprise Architect

"Overall good experience
I like the product itself as much as the community and LeanIX Support. Changes and improvements are deployed on a regular basis. I particularly like the support of surveys and collaboration features. The overall application is collaborating with business purposes and leaders so you mostly face relevant updates and features."

Enterprise IT Architect (> 1000 emp.)

"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."

"Great product on an upward trajectory
Easy to use. Simple to understand. Easy to get started. Powerful reporting."

Enterprise Architect

"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!"

Pharmaceuticals

"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"

"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."

Building Materials

"I'm using LeanIX more years in two different companies.
It is very easy to use. The onboarding works very well and is super fast."

"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."

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LeanIX Enterprise Architecture

Build technology landscapes to power outstanding customer experiences and transform your IT

Effortlessly involve everyone and all existing sources in your organization to build an EA repository for all stakeholders.

Start connecting the dots that identify opportunities in your use case to sustain continuous transformation journeys.

Gain real-time overviews of your IT landscape and business capabilities to transform productivity and accelerate your business transformation.