In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, businesses face the challenge of creating IT architectures that align with their strategic goals and drive desired outcomes. Welcome to today’s blog post, where we emphasize on the joint forces of LeanIX and SAP Signavio, who have been working together for nearly a decade to address this very problem.
The shared vision of bridging business and IT has guided the product integration between LeanIX and SAP Signavio. Their goal? To create a common language that fosters transparency and collaboration. After all, effective communication between IT and business stakeholders is essential for successful transformations such as SAP S/4HANA migrations
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- LeanIX for enterprise architecture: LeanIX provides visibility into enterprise architecture, a critical ingredient at any stage of a transformation journey. When paired with visibility into end-to-end business processes, LeanIX ensures that everyone at the table understands the feedback loop between operational systems and business outcomes, ultimately providing greater process transparency and control.
- SAP Signavio for process excellence: Known for its business process transformation solutions, SAP Signavio equips you with actionable insights and best practices – among others. By combining SAP Signavio’s capabilities with LeanIX
, you can gain an extra layer of insight that spans your present and future software landscape. For example, you can directly relate technology investments to business processes, accelerating your specific transformation agendas.
- Out-of-the-box integration: LeanIX offers an out-of-the-box integration with SAP Signavio Process Manager. This integration allows you to leverage data from SAP Signavio for better IT and business alignment, informed decisions, and driving transformation agendas.
- Shared product roadmap: The joint roadmap includes improved integration between LeanIX EAM and SAP Signavio Process Manager. In this context, they are continuously working on also enhancing the features, as presented during the LeanIX Roadshows in Q1 of this year
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- Strategic alignment: By combining LeanIX and SAP Signavio, you can achieve strategic alignment between your business processes and IT architecture, as LeanIX provides visibility into enterprise architecture, while SAP Signavio focuses on business process management. Together, they bridge the gap, ensuring that your IT decisions align with your business goals.
- Reduced manual effort: The out-of-the-box integration between LeanIX and SAP Signavio eliminates manual data management. Business process data automatically syncs between the two platforms, resulting in efficient collaboration across your business operations and IT. You can analyze processes, verify optimal IT infrastructure implementation, and standardize modeling seamlessly.
- Enhanced visibility: LeanIX and SAP Signavio provide complementary views. Process Fact Sheets in LeanIX are automatically created from Signavio applications, linking processes to IT components. Users can navigate directly between LeanIX and Signavio, gaining insights into both process definitions and application details. Process documentation updates are reflected in real-time.
- Strategic decision support: The heightened integration facilitates more effective cooperation among business architects, transformation managers, and enterprise architects. It empowers you to make informed decisions, reduce uncertainty, and pursue ERP transformations confidently.
The collaboration between SAP Signavio and LeanIX enables you to achieve even better business and IT alignment, reduce uncertainty, make data-driven decisions, and ultimately accelerate your transformation journeys. As technology continues to evolve, this joint endeavor remains at the forefront of enabling enterprises of all industries to thrive in a dynamic business landscape.
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