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

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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.

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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. 

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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

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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 organisation

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

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.

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.

Read the report on LeanIX.net
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.

Watch the replay on LeanIX.net

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, optimises 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 organisations.

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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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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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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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The application rationalization framework

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

Frequently asked questions

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.

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 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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