Enterprise architecture management

Get complete visibility into your application landscape to design your target architecture, plan migrations, and govern transformation.​
SAP LeanIX

Gain the clarity you need to drive smarter transformation decisions

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One source of truth for your enterprise architecture

Know exactly what applications your business runs on so you can reduce IT spend, prioritise modernisation, and drive transformation with confidence.

Accelerate execution

Use continuous visibility into your application landscape to plan transformation, prioritise initiatives, and monitor progress.

Optimise 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, modelling the impact of transformation, and maintaining a comprehensive overview of current architecture.

Explore enterprise architecture capabilities

Drive rationalization, modernisation, and transformation of your enterprise architecture with reliable, shared transparency and insight.​

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Build and maintain an application inventory

Catalogue your applications through seamless imports, automated discovery, and best-practice models to create a single source of truth for the entire organisation.

 

Evaluate your current software landscape

Analyse the landscape through a lens of technical and functional fit to reduce complexity and align applications for a more effective and competitive organisation.

 

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, visualised dependencies, and dashboards tracking trends and data quality.

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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.

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Enhancing decision-making across the organisation

Discover how Deutsche Bahn enabled over 27,000 users to get enterprise architecture-driven information, reports, and insights supported by data visualisation.

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Supporting business risk programmes

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

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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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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 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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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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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, optimises applications, and accelerates business transformation.

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REPORT

SAP LeanIX EA Insights 2025

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

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WHITE PAPER

The definitive guide to business capabilities

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

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EXPERT GUIDE

Applying the Gartner TIME Framework for application rationalization

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

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POSTER

5 steps to application modernisation

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

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ONE-PAGER

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

Enterprise architecture is a strategic framework that aligns an organisation’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 modernisation of the application and broader IT landscape.

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

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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