Map Your SAP: Leverage Our New SAP Landscape Discovery

SAP Landscape Discovery is now available in SAP LeanIX. Let’s explore how this new feature will provide clarity on your SAP landscape to help accelerate transformations and keep your landscape updated as it evolves. 

SAP Landscape Discovery is an exciting new integration in SAP LeanIX. It allows our users to surface and map the use of SAP products across their organization.

This, of course, enables enterprise architects to better understand their IT landscape and application portfolio. What will be key in the future, however, is empowering EAs to create a clean core for their SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) tools and enable ERP transformation.

Understanding, not just the SAP applications in use across your organization, but the customizations and integrations that your people have built, enables you to understand your SAP landscape. With that clarity, you can ensure your SAP estate is optimized.

To find out more about leveraging SAP LeanIX for ERP transformation, book a demo:

What Is Your SAP Landscape?

Your SAP landscape is the network of SAP applications and integrations that support your organization across every facet of its operations. Everything your business does is driven by some aspect of your SAP system, from logistics to human resources fueling continuous transformation and enabling innovation across all business operations.

Those interconnected elements form an ecosystem that supports your business processes, and changing any aspect of it could impact the entire system. This is why we refer to it as a "landscape", and it's vital for you to have oversight of all of it.

Mapping this landscape is key for enterprise architects to gain clarity on their as-is state. This allows you to remove inefficiencies and plan a road map for transformation as the market calls on your landscape to evolve.

Without a clear and comprehensive picture of your SAP landscape, you can't make sweeping changes across your organization. Your enhancements will, instead, be small, incohesive, and disorganized.

Imagine being a town planner, but trying to do your work by walking around at street level without a map or viewpoint on the entire town. To succeed, you need to work from a map of the landscape in order to see what you're doing.

The Journey To Transformation Starts With Discovery

Like the town planner from the above example, organizations need full transparency and visibility into their SAP landscape to effectively prepare and execute transformation initiatives. Our new SAP Landscape Discovery feature is an integration that provides an automated method for gathering data about your organization’s SAP systems and services directly from SAP. It helps you build a comprehensive view of your as-is SAP landscape by automatically drawing information about your SAP applications from your SAP instance into your SAP LeanIX application fact sheets. 

You can then use the powerful reports and visualization within SAP LeanIX to build a map of your SAP landscape that will offer the clarity you need. This will immediately empower your business transformation efforts. 

This visibility enables in-depth analysis of inefficiencies and redundancies, providing data-driven insights that guide strategic decision-making. With a clear understanding of the imperfections in your SAP landscape, you can further use SAP LeanIX Architecture and Road map Planning to plan and design a tailored transformation road map to optimize the systems and move to your ideal target architecture. As transformation initiatives are executed, SAP LeanIX supports the process by offering valuable insights and facilitating the tracking of changes. 

Moreover, the value of SAP Landscape Discovery’s extends beyond managing transformations. It maintains transparency into your transformed landscape, offering stakeholders clear insights into the context, ownership, and overall health of SAP systems. This continuous visibility is essential for fostering an organized and efficient environment, both during transitions and in day-to-day operations.  

Get Automated Transparency On Your SAP Landscape

SAP Landscape Discovery is a new out-of-the-box integration in SAP LeanIX to accelerate the discovery of SAP applications, and exploration phases for transformations and enable a smoother, more automated way to update the landscape as it changes.

With SAP LeanIX, you can:

1 Automatically Discover Your SAP Landscape

Use SAP LeanIX to maintain an up-to-date inventory of your landscape through automated discovery. You can then contextualize and model your discoveries to align them with best practices.

2 Eliminate The Blind Spots In Your SAP Landscape

Discover your complete SAP landscape, cloud, and SaaS. Leverage catalogs to enrich your fact sheets and complete your date. Currently, discovery focuses on cloud-based systems and services, with plans to include on-premises systems in the future. Check our product roadmap for more detail.

3 Complete Business Transformations With Confidence

Evaluate and compare your SAP architecture based on business capabilities and criticality to effectively pinpoint your starting point for transformation. Knowing your current SAP landscape, helps in confidently planning your transformation roadmap, ensuring you move to your desired target architecture future without any surprises. 

Leveraging LeanIX SAP Landscape Discovery

All the discovered services and systems from your SAP landscape will be listed in the SAP landscape discovery inbox. In this inbox, you’ll find a comprehensive list of services and systems identified which you can then easily review and connect them to existing fact sheets, or create new ones as needed. Any services and systems that do not meet our application best practices will be automatically excluded from the inbox. This ensures your inventory remains consistent, streamlined and aligned with our established modeling standards. 

SAP LeanIX has everything you need for continuous SAP landscape discovery:

1. Connect to SAP landscape discovery
2. Review and approve or reject discovered SAP services and systems using our discovery inbox
3. Link your SAP applications to existing fact sheets in SAP LeanIX or create new ones  
4. Monitor and govern your SAP landscape using reports, for example: application landscape report 
5. Repeat steps 2-4 to achieve continuous SAP landscape discovery

Existing SAP LeanIX users can access SAP Landscape Discovery now. In the future, we will continue to provide complete transparency on the as-is landscape, leveraging data from BTP to discover services and all the running extensions in SAP landscape.

Enterprise architects not yet leveraging the power of SAP LeanIX, should get in touch.

To find out more about leveraging SAP LeanIX for ERP transformation, book a demo: