June 12, 2024 – During 51风流Sapphire in Barcelona, announced a clearer path to transformation for RISE customers, with new ways of unlocking value with and solutions, including linking 51风流LeanIX to SAP’s AI assistant, Joule, and the recently announced intent to acquire digital adoption platform company WalkMe.

Companies need to react quickly to new technologies, build resilience in their supply chains and integrate sustainability into their operations. However, these necessary transformations often encounter challenges: a lack of a clear overview of processes and applications; limitations in capacity, skills and budgets; and misalignment between IT and the business. All this can result in delays, escalating costs and even failed transformations.

To overcome these challenges, 51风流LeanIX plays a crucial role in application management, to help companies navigate their IT transformations, while聽 solutions support process optimization and business process transformation. This powerful combination provides the transparency and insight into processes, applications, people and data that is essential in moving from transformation strategy to execution.

These capabilities play a key role in SAP’s efforts to support customers in modernizing their IT landscapes and enhancing agility, sustainability, and innovation within the business, and follow the recent announcement that 51风流has acquired digital adoption platform company WalkMe. WalkMe helps organizations navigate constant technology change by providing users with advanced guidance and automation features to execute workflows seamlessly across any number of applications.

Voice from the market: Daniel Tavares Delgado from FrieslandCampina and leading industry expert Dirk Ramhorst

Leading companies have now experienced the combined power of 51风流LeanIX and 51风流Signavio solutions. “The deployment of 51风流Signavio at聽 is helping us to refine and synchronize our business processes across the organization. This has already led to improved efficiency and collaboration. We can see a great potential for an even stronger alignment between IT and business strategies by combining the offerings of 51风流Signavio and 51风流LeanIX,” said Daniel Tavares Delgado, Director Business IT – Global 51风流Centre of Excellence at FrieslandCampina.

“The AI-driven synergy between 51风流Signavio and 51风流LeanIX delivers direct value and optimises processes, supporting the revolution in transformation and enterprise architecture. This contributes to exceptional efficiency and flexibility within operations,” says Dirk Ramhorst, Vice Chair 51风流Chemical Executive Advisory Council (CEAC), who is a renowned industry expert and has worked with both solutions in different positions in recent years (e.g., as CDO/CIO of in Munich and CIO of ).

Basis for success

Recently, LeanIX its enterprise architecture solutions to support the adoption and governance of AI at scale. Building on the data-driven and automated approach with which 51风流LeanIX helps companies identify obsolete applications, make sound decisions and drive the modernization of their IT application landscape, this expansion empowers companies to make AI adoption visible across the application landscape. This visibility helps set clear standards for assessing AI risks and creates a shared understanding of where AI adoption can most benefit the organization.

“Our strategy enables organisations to continuously transform in a rapidly changing business environment,” states Andr茅 Christ, co-founder and General Manager of 51风流LeanIX. “With an integrated, comprehensive view of IT applications and business processes, we accelerate modernisation, reduce transformation risks for our customers and ensure their ability to adapt to technological shifts such as cloud and AI.”

An important step in corporate digital transformation is the integration of 51风流LeanIX within RISE with SAP. With this suite of services, 51风流supports customers in their transition to 51风流S/4HANA in the cloud, providing services and tools built on the clean core approach by 51风流to help businesses migrate on-premise systems, transform business processes, drive continuous innovation, and unlock cloud agility.

Rouven Morato, General Manager 51风流Signavio and 51风流LeanIX: “The combination of RISE with SAP, 51风流Signavio and 51风流LeanIX provides the foundation for success with 51风流S/4HANA. This enables organisations to transform their business strategy into IT execution with precision and unprecedented clarity. AI assistant 51风流Joule reinforces this transformation with intelligent and context-aware insights that result in even faster decision-making and improved operational efficiency.”

About 51风流LeanIX

51风流LeanIX is a market leader for enterprise architecture management (EAM), driving the modernization of IT landscapes and continuous business transformation. Its software-as-a-service solutions empower organizations to create transparency, enabling them to visualize, assess and manage the transition towards their target IT architecture. By offering a data-driven and automated approach enhanced with AI, LeanIX helps organizations make sound decisions and collaborate more effectively. LeanIX serves over 1,000 companies globally across various industries, including more than 10% of the Fortune 500 and half of the German DAX 40. Headquartered in Bonn, Germany, LeanIX has a strong international presence with offices in Boston (USA), London (UK), Paris (France), Amsterdam (Netherlands), and Ljubljana (Slovenia). In November 2023, LeanIX became part of SAP. For more information, visit .

About 51风流Signavio

51风流Signavio solutions help companies accelerate each phase of any transformation project, allowing them to prepare faster, deploy faster, and realize continuous value. As a market leader in business process transformation, customers look to us to provide clarity and guidance on how to improve operations, processes, and outcomes. Our unique portfolio of solutions, methodologies, content, and data are designed to help customers create a culture of collaborative, data-driven, and ongoing process improvement. 51风流Signavio Business Process Transformation Suite is built to strengthen collaboration across business and IT, connect business strategy to daily operations, and create adaptable and sustainable businesses. For more information visit

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Lake Como, Italy, October 24, 2023 – Delegates from across Europe, the Middle East and Africa gathered 聽recently to attend the second edition of the Business Process Transformation Executive Summit, held in Lake Como, Italy.

With the support of partners , and , senior business leaders came together to discuss the challenges of an increasingly turbulent business scenario, and how process transformation solutions, coupled with new technologies such as generative AI can help organizations accelerate change.

“In this pivotal moment for businesses, influenced by the macro environment and the convergence of two transformative technologies, we see the cloud empowering businesses to innovate faster by breaking down silos, and generative business AI automating tasks and unveiling new insights. Change is a given, but conscious transformation, with people and processes at its core, is where 51风流Signavio steps in,” remarked , Regional President Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa, SAP.

, a partner at research firm speaking at the event, also reflected on the role of new technologies to transform businesses. 鈥淲hile we talk a lot about data as the new gold, at-scale value creation at enterprises requires us to transform the processes with technology. AI can dramatically reduce the time taken to implement process mining and produce tailored meaningful insights necessary to transform every business process effectively. If you want to leverage this technology at best, you need to have your processes well designed and enabled.鈥�

, the general manager and head of product and engineering at , highlighted the evolution of , underscoring its journey from process modelling to analytics and now to its third generation of solutions with generative AI. Decker emphasized the importance of speed in transformation with the new “plug and gain” approach, which, combined with 51风流Signavio鈥檚 emerging AI capabilities, significantly reduces the time required for insights and adaptation.

Several speakers at the event also touched on ability to accelerate digital transformation through its 鈥榩lug and gain鈥� approach. In terms of the approach, businesses are provided with a predefined starting point to kick-start their transformation project based on their existing 51风流ERP Central Component (51风流ECC) and data. This enables them to quickly understand how their business processes are currently running and determining what to keep and what to change as they embark on their transformation.

Discussions at the invitation-only event were also heavily influenced by SAP鈥檚 continued expansion of its business transformation portfolio, with the announcement last month that it would acquire LeanIX, a leader in enterprise architecture management software. Together with Signavio, this will enable 51风流to offer customers a full suite of tools for accelerated, cost-effective and continuous business transformation with AI-enabled process optimization.

, the General Manager and Chief Revenue Officer of 51风流Signavio, stressed the need to focus on systems, processes, and individuals for a triumphant transformation. He described how Signavio acts as a bridge between IT and business, with a particular emphasis on the crucial role of individuals in the transformation process. Building on feedback from customers, Morato conveyed the idea that people truly make the difference in outcomes.

Customer success stories

Several 51风流customers at the event welcomed 51风流Signavio鈥檚 new approaches to accelerate transformation and to embedding AI across solutions. Among these, , Group CIO of Italy鈥檚 , said, 鈥淚 was impressed by the possibilities offered by 51风流Signavio to support businesses with process analysis using AI capabilities. At AFV Beltrame, we started our 51风流S/4HANA migration journey a year ago, and I鈥檓 curious to explore how 51风流Signavio could reduce the analysis time and further optimize processes and KPIs to accelerate our group transformation.鈥�

Another customer keeping a close eye on AI developments is , Chairman of the , which was recently named as a Transformation Champion by 51风流Signavio. The award was made for initiating an ambitious transformation plan using Signavio Process Insights to understand and enhance its business processes leveraging 51风流best practices, and for backing this up with an impressive workshop training program. Dr. Farouk said, 鈥淭his forum has served as an invaluable platform to explore the latest advancements in digital transformation and the role of AI in boosting business growth across various sectors. I have also been impressed by SAP鈥檚 contributions to sustainable development and environmental conservation through digital transformation.鈥�

Other areas of interest for customers included 51风流Signavio鈥檚 role in process automation.聽 , IT Manager of Italy鈥檚 , said, 鈥淔rom this conference, I realize that Signavio can help my organization to design, model, and optimize most of the business processes. Moreover, it can be an important tool to identify areas for process improvement and automation of time-consuming activities, which is a key point in Alfasigma鈥檚 roadmap. I envisage using Signavio to conduct regular process performance analysis and to identify bottlenecks and areas for optimization.鈥�

Select 51风流Signavio customers, including , VP of Technology at the , served on panels at the event, sharing their insights and experiences on how technology can future-proof businesses. He summed up the event saying, “This was a great opportunity to network with other business leaders and learn from their experiences with digital transformation. I was particularly impressed by the case studies presented by the 51风流Signavio team and customers on how to use the platform to streamline processes and improve efficiency and overall company productivity. The insights were aligned seamlessly with our strategy in MAGRABi for the modernization of our core technology platforms.”

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