Enterprise architecture data quality is key for achieving data-driven insight into your IT landscape. Leverage the new calculations feature in SAP LeanIX to spare manual effort and improve data consistency.
Enterprise architecture data quality is a key concern for IT leaders. Without accurate information about your IT landscape, you can’t align it with your business strategy or confirm your return on investment.
Yet, manual error and simple organic growth will always create inconsistencies in your data. Equally, the progress of time will leave your information falling behind the current reality of your architecture.
Few organizations can spare the resources to continually audit their enterprise architecture information to root out errors and keep things up-to-date. That’s why automated data population is becoming a vital capability.
Automating your data calculations can dramatically reduce the possibility of user error and regularly check for outdated or inconsistent information. All this can be accomplished without having to expand your team to allow for the additional workload.
There are, of course, various third-party tools that can make different calculations for you. Using those, however, involves sharing your data with external applications, taking both manual effort and adding security risk.
This is why we’ve added the capability to perform advanced calculations directly within SAP LeanIX, without the need for external software. Let’s explore the ways you can leverage this new capability to improve your enterprise architecture insights without spending more budget.
Achieve enterprise architecture data quality without spending more using automated calculations within SAP LeanIX. To find out more, book a demo.
The new calculations feature within SAP LeanIX allows you to automatically populate and update fields within SAP LeanIX fact sheets based on other data stored within the fact sheet. When something about your application changes, your fact sheet will be automatically updated to reflect the new status.
This eliminates the need to rely on external software to complete complex calculations, saving expenditure and reducing security risk. Not to mention, automating this process frees your experts from becoming a bottleneck to maintaining complex data.
This new capability has tremendous value in increasing data consistency, as well as reducing manual effort. In addition, there are a range of use cases that calculations in SAP LeanIX can support, from determining how much you're spending on a project to generating URLs.
The new calculations feature can be used to keep a running total of your current and planned budget expenditure for any initiative. This includes both capital expenditure (capex) and operational expenditure (opex).
Calculations in SAP LeanIX can score your applications based on fields in the fact sheets. For example you could calculate the technical fit of an application based on its stability, maintainability,and security ratings.
Calculations can also assess your applications against your target maturity level based on set criteria within SAP LeanIX fact sheets. This immediately identifies where your architecture needs work.
Improving your enterprise architecture data quality with calculations is quick and easy. Simply apply a template calculation to a fact sheet in your SAP LeanIX repository.
First among these will be a ready-made calculation to perform an automatic Gartner® TIME analysis of your application portfolio based on the information stored in your SAP LeanIX application fact sheets. This will automatically recommend which applications should be preserved, invested in, replaced, or retired.
There will soon be a range of other, equally useful calculations available within SAP LeanIX. We plan to add new calculations over time, according to your needs.
The real power of calculations, however, will be in creating your own. You can now build your own calculations within the platform to keep oversight on any data within our solution that you need to.
Enterprise architecture data quality is vital, but it isn’t worth opening your organization up to security risk. By performing calculations directly within SAP LeanIX, you can reduce the risk of it being intercepted while being migrated or accessed by third-party systems.
All calculations within SAP LeanIX use JavaScript code un in a secure code execution environment within our solution. This means that your enterprise architecture data doesn’t need to leave the system for you to complete calculations with it, and you don’t need to give other applications access.
This allows you to leverage automated calculations without the risk. Soon, your dashboards will be able to update themselves with live data to provide you with vital intelligence on your IT landscape, without the need to go outside SAP LeanIX.
Our customers are already telling us that their stakeholders prefer to see live data from within our solution than slide decks or external charts. Now, the views on your information that you share with them can update themselves and provide live data at a glance.
Enterprise architecture data quality is now at the fingertips of SAP LeanIX users, without the need for third-party tools. Calculations are now available with our solution.
To find out more about leveraging our templated calculations and getting started with creating your own, book a demo