Enterprise architecture management
Gain the clarity you need to drive smarter transformation decisions
One source of truth for your enterprise architecture
Know exactly what applications your business runs on so you can reduce IT spend, prioritize modernization, and drive transformation with confidence.
Accelerate execution
Use continuous visibility into your application landscape to plan transformation, prioritize initiatives, and monitor progress.
Optimize IT spend
Connect technology investment with business impact, eliminate redundancies to unlock budget, and improve planning with clearer insight into complexity and dependency.
Reduce risk
Ensure governance of your IT landscape – including AI and microservices – while monitoring technology lifecycles, modeling the impact of transformation, and maintaining a comprehensive overview of current architecture.
Explore enterprise architecture capabilities
Drive rationalization, modernization, and transformation of your enterprise architecture with reliable, shared transparency and insight.
Build and maintain an application inventory
Catalog your applications through seamless imports, automated discovery, and best-practice models to create a single source of truth for the entire organization.
Evaluate your current software landscape
Analyze the landscape through a lens of technical and functional fit to reduce complexity and align applications for a more effective and competitive organization.
Continuously update and verify architecture data
Ensure that shared data is accurate and up to date through owner accountability, automated discovery, and surveys.
Align IT architecture and business goals
Facilitate strategic alignment with insights, visualized dependencies, and dashboards tracking trends and data quality.
Right-size your application footprint
Confidently optimize application spend, control costs, and promote organizational agility.
Easily scope applications
Manage applications with advanced filters, owner surveys, and cost data from integrated tools.
Evaluate applications
Continuously optimize your portfolio using reports, cost analysis, dependency checks, and automated lifecycle categorization.
Create a road map
Steer rationalization projects with prioritized initiatives, visual timelines, and future-state impact analysis.
Track status and report progress
Monitor rationalization progress through dashboards, executive views, and regular portfolio reviews.
Become future-ready
Keep pace with the rapid evolution of technology and your organization’s needs by identifying opportunities to modernize your application landscape.
Evaluate and prioritize modernization candidates
Use dependency insights, 6R planning, and planned transformation waves to make the best selection.
Easily execute transformations and document changes
View all planned changes across your portfolio, filter to focus on specific transformations, execute them with automated progress tracking, and sync updates back to your IT repository with one click.
Offer insights and track your progress
Use dashboards to keep stakeholders aligned, track modernization progress, and ensure KPIs stay on target.
Build an inventory of AI technologies
Gain reliable visibility into AI technologies across the organization, from AI-enabled applications to AI agents.
Evaluate AI potential
Identify new opportunities for AI-led innovation by mapping AI usage to business capabilities.
Track AI approval and adoption
Visualize where AI technologies are across governance and approval processes.
Manage AI risk
Identify, evaluate, and address risk across applications and AI agents and flag for mitigation.
Plan AI transformation
Create stakeholder alignment in AI initiatives with detailed roadmaps and automated impact updates.
Move to a modern ERP with confidence
Facilitate a successful ERP transformation with an integrated toolchain that enables full visibility into your application landscape.
Align strategy and goals
Develop your target architecture, eliminate blind spots, and unlock growth with high‑impact initiatives.
Plan and realize your target state
Bring stakeholders into alignment, minimize risk, and accelerate success with a clear transformation road map.
Evolve while maintaining standards
Strengthen governance with clear standards, enhance visibility, and continuously optimize your IT landscape.
Monitor application lifecycles
Track IT components nearing end-of-life to address risks and manage emerging vulnerabilities before they become threats.
Maintain a resilient portfolio
Identify and remove infrastructure components that are reaching their end-of-life or end-of-support.
Discover and address risk
Automate inventory building and surface risk to make collaborative remediation decisions with application owners.
Mitigate risk and track progress
Proactively reduce risk with upgrade road maps and monitor risk levels with prebuilt dashboards.
See how customers are succeeding with enterprise architecture management solutions from SAP
Creating a single source of truth for cloud migration
Learn how MediaMarktSaturn used SAP LeanIX to gain full visibility into their IT landscape, rationalize their application portfolio, and track progress of cloud initiatives.
Enhancing decision-making across the organization
Discover how Deutsche Bahn enabled over 27,000 users to get enterprise architecture-driven information, reports, and insights supported by data visualization.
Supporting business risk programs
Learn how SEEK is using enterprise architecture to drive resilience, security, and privacy with SAP LeanIX.
Improving AI adoption and governance
Find out how CapitalLand is expanding AI capabilities and ensuring AI governance with reusable enterprise architecture frameworks from SAP LeanIX.
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Resources
WHITE PAPER
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.
REPORT
SAP LeanIX EA Insights 2025
SAP LeanIX surveyed 360 enterprise architects about their priorities, challenges, and perception of enterprise architecture within their organizations.
WHITE PAPER
The definitive guide to business capabilities
Create a business capability map to align technology with strategy, optimize costs, and mitigate obsolescence risks.
EXPERT GUIDE
Applying the Gartner TIME Framework for application rationalization
Maximize application portfolio value by categorizing systems with Gartner’s TIME framework to guide rationalization decisions.
POSTER
5 steps to application modernization
Download a poster outlining the five steps customers need to conduct before starting the application modernization journey.
ONE-PAGER
The application rationalization framework
Streamline your application landscape using a structured framework to cut costs, reduce complexity, and enhance efficiency.