Limited IT landscape transparency
Incomplete visibility into applications, technologies, and dependencies hinders informed decision-making.
Application sprawl and high IT costs
Redundant and outdated applications increase complexity and total cost of ownership.
Technology obsolescence and security risk
Unsupported technologies create security, compliance, and operational risks.
Complex transformation execution
Poor visibility into impacts and dependencies slows modernization and ERP transformations.
SAP LeanIX helps organisations understand and transform their IT landscapes through Application Portfolio Management, Architecture & Road Map Planning, and Technology Risk & Compliance—providing clarity, reducing complexity, and enabling confident decision-making.
Provides transparency into the application landscape, including lifecycle, costs, and business criticality. Enables data-driven application rationalization and modernisation decisions.
Supports designing target architectures and modelling transformation scenarios over time. Helps organisations plan, track, and communicate complex initiatives such as cloud and ERP transformations.
Identifies technology obsolescence, security, and compliance risks across the IT landscape. Enables proactive risk mitigation through lifecycle data, standards, and impact analysis.
Single source of truth for IT – Gain end-to-end visibility across applications, technologies, and business capabilities.
Reduce IT complexity and cost – Identify redundancies and rationalize applications to lower total cost of ownership.
Support strategic decision-making – Link business strategy to IT execution with data-driven insights.
Enable successful transformations – Plan and track cloud, ERP (SAP S/4HANA), and modernization initiatives with confidence.
Proactively manage technology risk – Detect obsolescence, security, and compliance risks before they impact the business.
Improve stakeholder alignment – Provide a shared view for business and IT leaders using clear reports and roadmaps.
Integrates with the SAP and IT ecosystem – Seamlessly connects with tools like SAP Signavio, ServiceNow, Jira, and CMDBs.
Emphasys provided expert advice and technical solution optimization that helped us align global systems, streamline processes, and reduce sales order processing time by 69%—a significant efficiency gain. Their contribution was vital to the success of FOCUS and to advancing Shiseido’s ambition to become a truly data-driven, globally connected organization.”
François Keet
Vice President, Head of Global Business Transformation
Shiseido Co., Ltd.
For CIOs, Emphasys ensures SAP LeanIX delivers executive-level value, not just architectural documentation. As a certified SAP LeanIX partner, we accelerate time to value by aligning LeanIX to your SAP landscape, transformation priorities (including S/4HANA), and governance model. Emphasys focuses on data quality, integration, and adoption—so LeanIX becomes a trusted platform for cost reduction, risk management, and confident decision-making.
Get a clear, structured view of how business and IT connect.
The LeanIX Meta Model graphic maps strategy, capabilities, applications, data, and technology in one simple framework.
Use it to understand and simplify complex architectures.
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