Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Matthew Grant At the SAP Transformation Excellence Summit this week in Austin, TX, SAP LeanIX introduced a number of product innovations aimed at helping companies optimize IT costs, standardize and modernize their enterprise architecture, and adopt and gov…
Investment in enterprise architecture (EA) has increased over the last two years. That’s what 64% of respondents to a recently published survey by SAP LeanIX–EA Insights 2025–found. That’s good news and suggests that more and more companies ha…
Enterprise architects have a key role to play in strategic business transformation, including application modernization, cloud migration, and generative AI adoption. Discover how LeanIX CEO André Christ explained this role at a recent SAP Sign…
SAP LeanIX plays a critical role in enterprise architecture, ERP transformation, and SaaS management at over 1,000 companies. Based on conversations with our customers, IDC has written a report clearly quantifying the value SAP LeanIX delivers…
Continuous transformation refers to the ongoing process of change and evolution in an organization or system. This could include changes to processes, technology, culture, or strategy, and is often driven by the need to adapt to new market con…
Bosch, one of the world’s largest engineering and technology companies, has used LeanIX to map its IT landscape since 2016. At the 2021 LeanIX Connect Summit, Bosch’s Markus Haeberle (Head of Department, Enterprise Architecture) and Daniela We…
A primary goal of enterprise architecture is to power more data-driven organizations. But do decision makers really know where the data they’re leveraging comes from? For example, can they answer the following questions for any given piece of …
Managing a modern, enterprise-level IT infrastructure is no small undertaking. LeanIX has found that most large companies now operate 650+ applications, and the largest 10% have more than 3400 — and that’s just software.
The enterprise architect role is unique — it typically lives in IT, but it directly supports critical functions and strategies across the enterprise. Gartner reports that by next year, 60% of companies will depend on EAs to lead their overall …
Which came first — the chicken or the egg? The seed or the plant? Enterprise architecture (EA) or the enterprise architecture tool?
Cyber criminals have been a top-level business risk for decades, but the post-2020 business world has seen a resurgence in security incidents and the emergence of new kinds of threats, no doubt due to the fast and widespread surge in decentral…
According to Glassdoor, if you’re a new enterprise architect, you’ve got the #1 job in America. The EA role scores high for salary, opportunities, and satisfaction. What’s more, EAs get to work on a variety of strategic projects and initiative…