What is LeanIX?

What does LeanIX do?

LeanIX is a software-as-a-service solution for the management of enterprise architecture (EA) and multi-cloud environments and has been part of SAP SE since the end of 2023.

LeanIX helps companies with software solutions to visualize, document and optimize their IT landscapes - thus ensuring greater transparency and faster data-driven decisions.

LeanIX supports companies' decision-making based on data by providing solutions that ensure greater transparency of IT assets.

The main use cases include

• Application Portfolio Assessment (application inventory),
• rationalization (optimization of the application portfolio),
• the modernization of applications based on best practices,
• technology risk assessment and
• ERP transformation and
• post-merger integration.

What can LeanIX do?

SAP LeanIX ensures transparency across a company's entire IT landscape - in other words, across the entire software portfolio.

All applications, technologies and business processes are mapped in a central repository. With the help of LeanIX software solutions, the dependencies between the individual applications can be recognized and risks and opportunities identified.

Companies can use data to make better and faster decisions about which systems they want to modernize or shut down. In this way, the SaaS software from LeanIX helps to reduce IT costs.

Some advantages of the solution at a glance:

• Gain a complete overview of your own software inventory and thus greater transparency
• Modernize application landscapes based on best practices and reduce technical debt
• Identify and minimize the risks of outdated software and discontinued components
• Better plan and implement ERP transformations, such as the switch to SAP S/4HANA

What is LeanIX EAM?

LeanIX EAM is the solution with which companies can gain an overview of their software inventory and document, analyze, evaluate, optimize and redesign their landscape on this basis. EAM stands for Enterprise Architecture Management.

With LeanIX EAM, a target landscape can be designed, a corresponding roadmap can be drawn up and this roadmap can also be executed (implementation).

The predefined LeanIX metamodel can be used to categorize and display connections between the most important components of Enterprise Architecture (EA). The metamodel is based on best practices, but can be adapted to your own requirements.

The new actual state of the IT system and application landscape can be operated and monitored with LeanIX EAM in order to recognize new risks in good time and keep the application landscape up to date at all times.

Why LeanIX?

SAP LeanIX offers a solution for IT architecture management (EAM). The cloud-based SaaS solution helps companies to manage their IT landscape efficiently and accelerate digitalization.

LeanIX provides companies with real-time transparency across their entire system and application landscape, enabling them to make better decisions and avoid and reduce risks - for example due to outdated software components.

The LeanIX platform is cloud-based and can be easily integrated into existing systems. Among other things, this enables rapid adaptation to changes and simple collaboration between IT and business.

What does LeanIX cost?

The pricing of LeanIX is based on the number of applications. The number of users for LeanIX EAM is therefore unlimited.

What functions does LeanIX offer?

SAP LeanIX is a software solution for Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) and IT portfolio management. Here are 5 of the solution's main functions and use cases:

1. Application Portfolio Assessment: Companies use LeanIX to create an up-to-date and clear application inventory. With the help of this inventory, they can better manage their applications, coordinate them optimally, reduce the complexity of the landscape and lower IT costs.
   
2. Application Rationalization: By continuously rationalizing the application landscape, companies can better control and continuously optimize their costs. Applications can be evaluated and redundant apps removed.
   
3. Application Modernization: Modernizing the application landscape based on best practices increases efficiency, performance and IT security.
   
4. ERP transformation: SAP LeanIX gives companies an overview of their current landscape and the interdependencies between systems, enabling them to align their transformation initiatives with their goals and create suitable roadmaps for a new IT architecture.
5. Obsolescence risk management: LeanIX offers functions for assessing and monitoring risks caused by technologies, such as outdated systems or missing security updates.

For which companies is LeanIX particularly suitable?

LeanIX is particularly suitable for medium-sized and large companies that have a complex IT architecture and require transparency across their applications and technologies.

Companies in highly regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare and manufacturing that have high compliance and security requirements will also benefit from the solution.

In addition, the SaaS solution is ideal for companies that rely on a cloud-first strategy or are planning to migrate to the cloud.

LeanIX has over 1,300 customers from a wide range of industries and of varying sizes - from SMEs to corporations such as Volkswagen, Adidas, Telekom, Lufthansa, Santander, DHL and Bosch.

Who owns LeanIX?

LeanIX has been part of SAP SE since November 2023. The company was founded in 2012 as a start-up in Bonn. The two founders of LeanIX were André Christ (now General Manager of LeanIX) and Jörg Beyer (left the company in 2019).

LeanIX GmbH is still headquartered in Bonn. The company is represented internationally with offices in the USA, Great Britain, France, the Netherlands and Slovenia and has a partner network for support in America, Europe and Australia.