Statkraft: Visualizing a dynamic IT landscape overview for instant clarity on the impact of transformation
Statkraft’s IT landscape transformation
Renewable energy giant Statkraft AS transformed its approach to enterprise architecture management over time by first creating a capability model of the entire company and then digitalizing it using the SAP LeanIX portfolio. The company now has a common, single source of accessible data across its IT and business areas. This provides a live digital blueprint that allows it to reduce risk and enables real-time collaboration and transparency across its global architecture.
| Industry | Region | Company Size |
| Oil, gas, and energy | Oslo, Norway | ~7,000 employees |
users onboarded within six months.
applications mapped to capabilities.
applications connected through interfaces.
Enterprise Architect, Statkraft AS
Positioning enterprise architecture as a strategic enabler
Statkraft AS is a leading hydropower company in Norway and Europe’s largest generator of renewable energy through hydro, wind, and solar power. With operations in almost 20 countries, the company develops and operates renewable energy assets across Europe and South America and is a major trader of energy-related financial contracts.
Making clean energy possible for over a century, Statkraft continues to lead the way toward a carbon-free future, producing approximately 66 terawatt-hours in 2024.
The company’s operations are built on a robust energy management and production planning environment, supported by maintenance capabilities and a trading infrastructure. Statkraft’s team of enterprise architects works across the entire landscape, managing about 500 capabilities and maintaining approximately 500 applications that enable the business to deliver on those capabilities.
As a first foray into making enterprise architecture a strategic conversation within the business, the architecture team created a capability map using a diagramming tool. The capability diagram was printed on multiple sheets of paper, taped together, and pinned to a wall. Business and IT users were then invited to comment on the capabilities and applications assigned to their respective areas, with new printouts being made every other week.
While this system provided insight across the organization, there was no simple way to automatically keep the information up to date or to dynamically collaborate around information collection, as it was manual and paper based.
Digitalizing and sharing Statkraft’s capability and IT landscape
Wanting to digitalize this process, Statkraft sought a specialized, model-based enterprise architecture tool that would suit both business and IT needs and connect diagrams to a central data repository to help ensure they remained current. The enterprise architecture team drew up a list of key criteria for the new tool, which included the ability to provide broad insights and expose information, making it accessible for everyone. Other key criteria included an intuitive interface and a smooth learning curve.
Discovering that the SAP LeanIX portfolio met these needs, Statkraft implemented the solutions over a three-month period. It then focused on integrating SAP LeanIX with sources in its third-party configuration management database and business process management tool.
Following the implementation, the company assigned criticality ratings to applications and business capabilities. It also set up a shared governance model where the enterprise architecture team is responsible for the model and for awarding access rights. Meanwhile, the IT teams, product managers, and other users on the business side are responsible for the actual information in the model.
In addition, Statkraft ran an informal road show to capture feedback and demonstrate how modeling adjustments could be made in real time.
Enabling real-time enterprise architecture collaboration and transparency
This shared governance approach hit all the right notes, with the company rapidly onboarding stakeholders across all IT and business areas. Since the company launched the tool, it has amassed around 150 unique users each month.
Statkraft has also overlaid metadata on data flow diagrams. This visualization simplifies scoping and impact mapping on projects that affect Statkraft’s systems. Visualizations are also proving valuable for planning future road maps and technology budgets.
Furthermore, with SAP LeanIX redefining Statkraft’s approach to capability mapping, the company’s enterprise architecture team is better positioned to support strategic transformations.
Creating a definitive view of future-state architecture models
Statkraft is looking to increase its user base of SAP LeanIX and create target architecture to support operational goals and harmonize future business requirements with best-fit technology. It also wants to improve metadata management. The company’s initial focus will be on producing reports and communicating the value of what has been achieved to date.