Enterprise architecture management

Get a holistic view of your IT landscape to manage it more effectively and create road maps for transformation.
BTM Enterprise Architecture Management

Gain the clarity you need to drive smarter transformation decisions

Enterprise architecture management

Unify data to establish a single source of truth

Enterprise architecture software from SAP helps you understand your current IT state so you can plan complex transformations and drive continuous improvement for the future.

Accelerate transformation execution

Quickly evaluate, rationalize, and modernize your IT landscape based on reliable, shared insight.

Optimize IT spend

Ensure that your technology investment supports and advances your business strategy.

Drive successful transformation

Develop and maintain a clear understanding of the dependencies and interconnections in your software landscape.

Enterprise architecture assistant

Use AI agents focused on your enterprise architecture to automate daily tasks, understand context, and guide decision-making.

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Get assistance where enterprise architects need it

  • Ensure inventory data stays current by connecting agents to multiple systems and repositories. 

  • Enrich fact sheets with live web research. 

  • Make better decisions by pulling structured insight from unstructured documents. 

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Explore enterprise architecture capabilities

Gain transparency into the current state of your IT landscape and drive modernization of your enterprise architecture for continuous business transformation.

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Evaluate your current software landscape

Reduce complexity, manage costs, and align applications for a more effective and competitive organization.

Build and maintain a smart application inventory

Catalog your applications through seamless imports, automated discovery, and best-practice models.

Create a single source of truth​

Help ensure that shared data is accurate and up to date through owner accountability, linked capabilities, and collaboration. 

Align IT architecture and business goals

Facilitate strategic alignment with insights, visualized dependencies, and dashboards that track trends and data quality.

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See how customers are succeeding with enterprise architecture management solutions from SAP

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Creating a single source of truth for cloud migration

MediaMarktSaturn used SAP LeanIX to gain full visibility into its IT landscape, rationalize its app portfolio, and track progress.

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Enhancing decision-making across the organization

Deutsche Bahn enabled over 27,000 users to get enterprise architecture–driven information, reports, and insights supported by data visualization.

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Supporting business risk programs

SEEK is using enterprise architecture to drive resilience, security, and privacy with SAP LeanIX.

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Improving AI adoption and governance

CapitalLand is expanding AI capabilities and ensuring AI governance with reusable enterprise architecture frameworks from SAP LeanIX.

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See what analysts are saying about SAP LeanIX

SAP LeanIX is a Leader for the fifth consecutive year

SAP LeanIX was again named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Architecture Tools.

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The Business Value of SAP LeanIX

Read the IDC white paper to discover how SAP LeanIX helps your business save money and improve performance.

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The Real ROI: IDC Insights on SAP LeanIX Success

Watch an on-demand webinar to explore IDC’s findings on the business value of enterprise architecture and hear real-world success stories.

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Resources

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Enterprise architecture success kit: Everything you need to drive impact with EA

Discover how to build a modern EA practice that drives visibility, optimizes applications, and accelerates business transformation.

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SAP LeanIX EA Insights 2025

SAP LeanIX surveyed 360 enterprise architects about their priorities, challenges, and perception of enterprise architecture within their organizations.

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The definitive guide to business capabilities

Create a business capability map to align technology with strategy, optimize costs, and mitigate obsolescence risks.

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Applying the Gartner TIME Framework for application rationalization

Maximize application portfolio value by categorizing systems with Gartner’s TIME framework to guide rationalization decisions.

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5 steps to application modernization

Download a poster outlining the five steps customers need to conduct before starting the application modernization journey.

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The application rationalization framework

Streamline your application landscape using a structured framework to cut costs, reduce complexity, and enhance efficiency.

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Frequently asked questions

SAP LeanIX is a cloud-based enterprise architecture management platform that helps organizations visualize, analyze, and manage their IT landscapes. It provides a centralized source of truth for applications, technology components, risks, and roadmaps, enabling faster decisions, improved transparency, and more effective digital transformation.

Enterprise architecture is a strategic framework that aligns an organization’s business strategy, processes, information, and technology to achieve its goals. It consists of all the technology a company relies on along with relevant dependencies and interconnections. Enterprise architecture transformation starts with creating a business capability model and mapping applications to it. This allows companies to ensure that technology supports the business while also enabling the rationalization and modernization of the application and broader IT landscape.

SAP LeanIX features base AI capabilities including AI-powered inventory prompts, AI-assisted text creation, AI-generated context, and AI-supported translation. SAP LeanIX also offers an inventory builder driven by AI that automatically extracts architecture elements from diagrams and images.

No. SAP LeanIX is a standalone solution that helps map, model, and manage any enterprise architecture. However, when used in conjunction with SAP Signavio, WalkMe, and other SAP solutions, it becomes an integral part of an effective transformation strategy.

Yes, SAP LeanIX works with any technology landscape, and our product road map focuses on continuing to develop system-agnostic capabilities.  However, integrations with SAP solutions make SAP LeanIX particularly well-suited for discovery and management of your SAP landscape.

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