Enterprise architecture management
Gain the clarity you need to drive smarter transformation decisions
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 modernise your IT landscape based on reliable, shared insight.
Optimise 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.
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.
Explore enterprise architecture capabilities
Gain transparency into the current state of your IT landscape and drive modernisation of your enterprise architecture for continuous business transformation.
Evaluate your current software landscape
Reduce complexity, manage costs, and align applications for a more effective and competitive organisation.
Build and maintain a smart application inventory
Catalogue 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, visualised dependencies, and dashboards that track trends and data quality.
Right-size your application footprint
Confidently optimise application spend, control costs, and promote organisational agility.
Easily scope applications
Manage applications with advanced filters, owner surveys, and cost data from integrated tools.
Evaluate applications
Continuously optimise your portfolio using reports, cost analysis, dependency checks, and automated lifecycle categorization.
Create a road map
Steer rationalization projects with prioritised 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
Help ensure that your application landscape keeps pace with the rapid evolution of technology and your organisation’s needs.
Assess your application portfolio
Make strategic decisions based on owner details, surveys, and time series classification.
Evaluate modernisation candidates
Use dependency insights, 6R planning, and prioritised transformation waves to make the best selection.
Model your target architecture
Build a modernisation road map with predefined transformations and impact visualisations.
Easily execute and document changes
Make portfolio changes with filters, one-click updates, and comprehensive progress tracking.
Offer insights and track your progress
Use dashboards to keep stakeholders aligned, track modernisation progress, and ensure KPIs stay on target.
Guide and manage AI adoption
Gain visibility and control for comprehensive AI governance and adoption with the SAP LeanIX meta model.
Plan AI initiatives
Map AI usage to business capabilities to monitor impact and identify opportunities for adoption.
Manage AI risk
Identify risk across apps, assess risk in the context of usage and business impact, and flag highest-risk apps to inform mitigation.
Track AI approval and standardisation
Identify candidates for standardisation and supplement governance with lifecycle insights.
Map AI-related transformations
Plan and track AI initiatives with detailed road maps, stakeholder alignment, 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 realise your target state
Bring stakeholders into alignment, minimise risk, and accelerate success with a clear transformation road map.
Evolve while maintaining standards
Strengthen governance with clear standards, enhance visibility, and continuously optimise 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 pre-built dashboards.
See how customers are succeeding with enterprise architecture management solutions from SAP
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.
Enhancing decision-making across the organisation
Deutsche Bahn enabled over 27,000 users to get enterprise architecture–driven information, reports, and insights supported by data visualisation.
Supporting business risk programmes
SEEK is using enterprise architecture to drive resilience, security, and privacy with SAP LeanIX.
Improving AI adoption and governance
CapitalLand is expanding AI capabilities and ensuring AI governance with reusable enterprise architecture frameworks from SAP LeanIX.
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.
The Business Value of SAP LeanIX
Read the IDC white paper to discover how SAP LeanIX helps your business save money and improve performance.
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.
Resources
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.
SAP LeanIX EA Insights 2025
SAP LeanIX surveyed 360 enterprise architects about their priorities, challenges, and perception of enterprise architecture within their organisations.
The definitive guide to business capabilities
Create a business capability map to align technology with strategy, optimise costs, and mitigate obsolescence risks.
Applying the Gartner TIME Framework for application rationalization
Maximise application portfolio value by categorizing systems with Gartner’s TIME framework to guide rationalization decisions.
5 steps to application modernisation
Download a poster outlining the five steps customers need to conduct before starting the application modernisation journey.
The application rationalization framework
Streamline your application landscape using a structured framework to cut costs, reduce complexity, and enhance efficiency.