LeanIX
Enterprise Architecture & Application Portfolio MANAGEMENT
Discover. Rationalize. Transform.
Gain full visibility into your application landscape and make informed decisions about modernization, cloud migration, digital transformation and AI adoption.
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. It also provides the transparency and governance foundation required to scale AI adoption, helping organizations understand where AI capabilities can be leveraged, assess associated risks, and ensure alignment with enterprise standards and compliance requirements.
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.
- AI Readiness & Governance – Establish visibility into systems, data flows, and technology dependencies to support responsible AI adoption, assess risks, and ensure alignment with governance, security, and compliance requirements.
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.
LeanIX, Signavio & SAP Transformation
Connect business processes, capabilities, applications, and technologies to accelerate SAP S/4HANA transformations, Clean Core programs, customization rationalization, and enterprise-wide modernization initiatives.
AI Governance
Link uses LeanIX as a foundation for AI inventory, risk classification, traceability, and EU AI Act compliance.
Agentic Enterprise Architecture
Transform Enterprise Architecture into a governance operating system with AI-driven decision support, governance-as-code, and continuous compliance.
Case
Case Studies
Global pharmaceutical company integrates SAP Signavio and SAP LeanIX to unify process governance and enterprise architecture
A global pharmaceutical company faced the challenge of governing business processes distributed across multiple teams and systems without a unified governance model. The lack of…
Leading European Financial Institution modernizes application governance with SAP LeanIX
A leading European financial institution faced the challenge of managing fragmented architectural information across multiple repositories, teams, and systems. This lack of an integrated application…
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…
