LeanIX
Enterprise Architecture & Application Portfolio Intelligence
Discover. Rationalize. Transform.
Gain full visibility into your application landscape and make informed decisions about modernization, cloud migration, and digital transformation.
APPLICATION LANDSCAPE VISIBILITY
LeanIX delivers 100% visibility into your application landscape, connecting business capabilities, applications, and technologies in a single enterprise architecture platform. This unified view enables organizations to rationalize application portfolios, identify technology risks, and guide modernization and cloud transformation initiatives with confidence.
Application Portfolio Management
Create a centralized inventory of applications, interfaces, technologies, and business capabilities to understand the entire IT landscape.
Enterprise Architecture Governance
Standardize enterprise architecture models and enable collaboration across IT and business teams using a single source of truth.
Technology Risk Analysis
Identify technical debt, obsolete technologies, and critical dependencies that may impact modernization and cloud migration.
Cloud Transformation Planning
Support cloud journey planning by identifying migration candidates, prioritizing initiatives, and reducing transformation risk.
TIME Framework Analysis
Evaluate applications using the Gartner TIME model to determine whether systems should be invested in, migrated, tolerated, or eliminated.
Executive Decision Dashboards
Provide clear visualizations and architecture insights that support strategic decision-making for technology and business leaders.
Single source of truth for enterprise architecture.
FEATURES
LeanIX enables organizations to maintain a collaborative and continuously updated view of their application landscape. By consolidating architecture data into a centralized repository, teams can understand dependencies, identify risks, and plan modernization initiatives with confidence.
Core capabilities include:
Application Portfolio Management – Maintain a structured inventory of applications, interfaces, and technologies.
Architecture Visualization – Map relationships between business capabilities, applications, and technologies.
Transformation Planning – Support modernization and cloud migration strategies using real architectural data.
Risk Identification – Detect obsolete technologies, redundant systems, and architectural complexity.
LeanIX acts as a strategic foundation for enterprise architecture governance and digital transformation programs.
Modern architecture platform for digital transformation.
TECHNOLOGY
LeanIX provides a modern SaaS-based platform designed to manage enterprise architecture and application portfolios at scale.
The platform includes:
Centralized architecture repository with standardized data models
Visual dashboards for application landscape analysis
Integration with enterprise tools such as Jira, ServiceNow, and SAP Cloud ALM
Preconfigured reference catalogs covering SAP applications, SaaS solutions, and technologies
LeanIX also enables architecture governance through collaborative workflows, automated data quality checks, and standardized fact sheets that maintain consistent architectural documentation across teams.
Why LeanIX alone is not enough
LeanIX provides the platform, the models, and the visibility.
Governance & Operating Model
Link designs and operationalizes governance models that transform LeanIX into a living and collaborative platform.
Frameworks & Standardization
Link accelerates the adoption of recognized frameworks such as BIAN, TBM, TOGAF, IT4IT
Data Quality & Portfolio Intelligence
Link ensures that the portfolio continuously reflects the organization’s reality through governance, validation, and data normalization mechanisms.
SAP Transformation
Link positions LeanIX as an accelerator for S/4HANA initiatives, SAP Clean Core programs, customization rationalization, and alignment between architecture and SAP roadmaps.
AI Governance
Link uses LeanIX as a foundation for AI inventory, risk classification, traceability, and EU AI Act compliance.
Case
Case Studies
Regaining IP Control from a 3rd‑Party Platform
The organization relied on a dependency-heavy third-party platform, limiting control over intellectual property, increasing operational costs, and constraining scalability across critical workloads.The team replaced the…
Transforming Operational Data into Strategic Decisions
A leading European private bank faced a fragmented operational data landscape across multiple systems. Manual reporting, inconsistent metrics, and siloed information limited visibility and slowed…
CGD adopts the BIAN framework and implements the SAP LeanIX Enterprise Architecture solution with Link Consulting
Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD), Portugal’s largest bank, faced the challenge of managing a complex legacy landscape with over 700 applications. This fragmented environment increased…
