SOLUTIONS

Digital Transformation

PRODUCTS

How LeanIX helps you modernise and migrate applications to the cloud

Deploying the latest versions of critical applications according to established best practices improves business performance, ensures IT security, and enables organisational agility.

Migrating applications to the cloud remains a leading modernisation approach worldwide. To maximise the benefits of moving to the cloud, migrations require proper planning, management, and tracking.

Accelerate SAP S/4HANA transformation with LeanIX

SAP S/4HANA transformation is a critical piece of an enterprise’s broader business and technology strategy. It’s a key aspect of digital transformation journeys yet also one of the biggest challenges within the SAP environment.

Due to the complexity and the high level of integration of SAP environments, the key success factors for a successful SAP S/4HANA journey are transparency of current SAP and non-SAP landscape and proper milestone planning.

Speed up preparation and swiftly align corporate objectives with SAP S/4HANA capabilities for a seamless transformation

Combat the challenges

Get complete transparency on As-Is landscape and To-Be scenarios

Migration with Success

Collaborate and align transformation initiatives with business capabilities and objectives

Take the path

Build effective architectural roadmaps to accelerate SAP S/4HANA transformation

Explore As-Is architecture and classify business capabilities

Capture and model Business Capabilities of the acquired organization
Map them to existing capabilities and derive a joint Business Capability map
Classify Business Capabilities with the Gartner Pace Layer method to align investments and resources

Model and compare migration scenarios

Create a complete view of all applications from both companies and analyze them by usage and cost metrics
Collect feedback from business stakeholders on the functional and technical fit of applications (i.e., application owners)
Gain understandings of application integrations and dependencies to evaluate change efforts

Use data to decide the right transformation strategy

Leverage LeanIX reports evaluating the applications by technical fit, functional fit, and lifecycle
Align on overall IT merging strategy: e.g., “best of both worlds” vs. “align on major platforms” vs. “the winner takes it all”
Apply the TIME model to define if applications should be tolerated (T), invested in (I), migrated (M), or eliminated (E)

Leverage SAP Signavio integration for process mapping

Identify successors for elimination and migration candidates
Document the future of Applications as impacts and set lifecycle dates accordingly
Compare different rationalization scenarios based on the modelled impacts

Create an execution roadmap

Create a transformation roadmap based on the chosen migration strategy and easily identify dependencies or conflicts
Communicate project milestones for main and sub-projects (e.g., roll-out plan, start dates, testing & validation timelines, test cut-overs, and go lives)
Track transformation progress to measure stages of completion and cost savings
Keep EA documentation up-to-date and automatically execute impacts after the completion of a project or plan