Our service offers a robust foundation for establishing Enterprise Architecture (EA) with LeanIX as a central tool. We begin by forming the EA core team and integrating LeanIX to provide a structured approach for managing your inventory of applications, data, integrations, and IT components. Additionally, we focus on creating a strong organizational foundation by defining the business context and mapping application relationships. Through close collaboration with subject matter experts (SMEs) from each domain, we develop an organization's structure, value chains, and a comprehensive capability model spanning multiple levels (L1 to L3). This approach ensures that applications are precisely aligned with the organizational structure, value streams, and capabilities, offering a transparent view of the application landscape and its alignment with business objectives. We categorize applications into relevant domains using software classifications to enable Portfolio Management. Our ultimate goal is to achieve complete information accuracy in LeanIX by thoroughly representing all organizational structures, business contexts, application relationships, and integrations.

• Establish a core team and integrate LeanIX as the foundational tool for managing IT components and applications.
• Involve stakeholders from IT, business, security, compliance, and infrastructure to ensure organization-wide alignment and support.
• Import existing data from spreadsheets, classify applications and IT components, and perform data cleanup to create a structured inventory.
• Update and enrich application information, gather necessary details, and improve IT component data to ensure all critical fields are complete.
• Leverage AI to gather and integrate publicly available information to supplement the existing data set.Engage with owners, leads, and SMEs to verify and enhance collected information, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
• Add and import integration interfaces and data objects, streamlining data flow across applications.
• Work closely with subject matter experts to define organizational structures, value chains, and capability models across levels (L1-L3).
• Create a comprehensive understanding of the organization by developing structures and value chains, and modeling business capabilities.
• Ensure all applications are mapped to the organizational structure, value streams, and capabilities for better alignment and visibility.
• Utilize software categories to effectively group applications into relevant domains and portfolios.
• Enhance business process optimization by integrating LeanIX with process mining tools like SAP Signavio where applicable.
• Achieve full information completeness in LeanIX by covering all aspects, including organization structure, business context, application relationships, and integrations.

Effective Technology Risk Management is essential for maintaining the stability and security of your IT environment. By proactively identifying, assessing, and mitigating potential risks, the EA Team can protect your technology landscape from disruptions caused by outdated systems, technical debt, or emerging threats. A well-defined risk management strategy helps ensure business continuity, enhance compliance, and maintain the integrity of critical business operations. This approach reduces vulnerabilities and safeguards your organization's assets, enabling a resilient and secure IT infrastructure.

This service focuses on creating a portfolio strategy and conducting T.I.M.E analysis to prioritize applications for rationalization and modernization. We help you establish an Architecture Review Board and involve key stakeholders from IT and business to ensure a comprehensive evaluation. Each application is assessed for business criticality, functional and technical fit, and cost, leveraging insights from SMEs. We refine IT standards, perform a 6R analysis to determine the optimal future state of applications, evaluate integration impacts, and develop a detailed roadmap for implementation. Our goal is to provide a clear path to achieve your target state through effective rationalization and modernization.

• Establish a review board to guide strategy and decision-making.
• Engage IT and business leadership, value stream leads, process leads, and application leads for a holistic evaluation.
• T.I.M.E Survey: Assess each application’s suitability for tolerating, investing, migrating, or eliminating.
• Analyze each application's business criticality, functional fit, technical fit, and cost, leveraging insights from business and IT SMEs.
• Prioritize applications for rationalization and modernization based on evaluation findings.
• Develop standards to guide application management and integration.
• Conduct 6R Analysis: Determine the optimal future state for each application (Retire, Retain, Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Replace).
• Evaluate how integration interfaces affect the application portfolio.
• Outline a clear, actionable roadmap for application modernization and integration.
• Regularly review plans and progress with key stakeholders to ensure alignment and buy-in.

Creating tailored technology roadmaps for each business unit is essential to ensure alignment with overall strategic objectives and support digital transformation efforts. These roadmaps provide a clear path for technology adoption, upgrades, and integrations, empowering each business units to achieve their specific goals while staying in sync with the organization's vision. By outlining a step-by-step approach to technology investments and development, these roadmaps help optimize resources, enhance operational efficiency, and drive innovation across the enterprise.

• Develop customized technology roadmaps aligned with strategic objectives.
• Identify key technology investments and upgrades needed for each unit.
• Plan and coordinate technology adoption and integration efforts.
• Ensure business unit initiatives support overall organizational goals.
• Optimize resources and streamline processes for greater efficiency.
• Foster innovation and agility within each business unit through targeted strategies.

Solution Architecture focuses on designing and implementing custom and or Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) technology solutions meet your business needs and integrate into existing IT environments. It involves creating a comprehensive blueprint for business process, application systems, data flows, and technology infrastructure, ensuring all components work together effectively. By addressing both current needs and future growth, solution architecture helps organizations build scalable, flexible, and efficient technology solutions that drive innovation and support strategic goals.

Optimizing enterprise integrations is crucial for ensuring seamless communication and data exchange across various systems and applications within an organization. By enhancing integration strategies, EA teams can help eliminate data silos, improve operational efficiency, and enable real-time decision-making. A well-optimized integration approach ensures that all systems work harmoniously, reducing redundancies and enhancing the overall performance of the IT landscape, ultimately supporting business agility and growth.

• Improve integration strategies, technology choices and tools used
• Eliminate data silos and ensure seamless data exchange across applications.
• Streamline communication between disparate systems for better efficiency.
• Enable real-time data access to support informed decision-making.
• Reduce redundancies and improve overall IT landscape performance.
• Support business agility and scalability through optimized integrations.

Optimizing data management, analytics, and AI is crucial for using data as a strategic asset. By implementing robust data governance practices and advanced analytics, organizations can gain deeper insights, make data-driven decisions, and drive innovation. Utilizing AI and machine learning technologies further enhances predictive capabilities and operational efficiency, enabling businesses to anticipate market trends, optimize processes, and achieve a competitive edge in their industry.

Research and innovation are at the core of staying ahead in today's competitive landscape. By continually exploring new technologies, methodologies, and best practices, the EA team can drive growth and foster a culture of continuous improvement. Investing in research initiatives not only keeps the business abreast of industry trends but also enables the development of innovative solutions that differentiate the organization from competitors. This approach ensures sustainable growth and positions the organization as a leader in its field.