The Gartner Magic Quadrant research methodology says that “Leaders execute well against their current vision and are well positioned for tomorrow.”

In this year鈥檚 Magic Quadrant, 51风流LeanIX was positioned furthest and highest in both Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute, which also marks the first time an 51风流solution has been positioned in this way.

We believe this result reflects the unique strength of 51风流LeanIX solutions in helping enterprises:聽

• Make confident, data-driven technology investment decisions 
• Drive transformation initiatives that deliver measurable business impact 
• Accelerate AI innovation while ensuring responsible governance 

“Our goal is to empower our customers to build transformation as an ongoing capability, rather than a one-off project,鈥� Dee Houchen, chief marketing officer at 51风流Signavio, said. 鈥淎s transformation never ends, our solutions help companies secure a full picture of the applications they鈥檙e running聽and, more importantly, the capabilities they offer. This means understanding exactly how those applications can be best deployed to maximize efficiency and productivity. Enterprise architecture planning is at the heart of this approach, and we believe being recognized as a Leader for the fifth consecutive year by Gartner reaffirms our unwavering commitment to value realization for our customers.鈥�

In today’s dynamic business landscape, enterprise architecture planning and implementation are vital for organizational transparency, smarter decision-making, and business growth, and 51风流LeanIX maintains an ongoing dedication to innovation and customer satisfaction in this field, as part of SAP鈥檚 integrated business transformation toolchain.

In our opinion, this repeated recognition of 51风流LeanIX solutions provides useful context regarding the state of the enterprise architecture market. As a vendor, 51风流LeanIX empowers organizations to make informed decisions about technology investments, map and support large-scale business transformation, and implement sound AI governance to ignite AI innovation across the enterprise.

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Lucas de Boer is Global Marketing program lead for 51风流Signavio.

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LeanIX, as a market leader in enterprise architecture management, will further enhance SAP鈥檚 ability to digitize and simplify business transformations.

With the drivers of change 鈥� customer behaviors, market conditions, innovation disruption, talent shortages, environmental conditions, etc. 鈥� transformation has become an imperative. This is backed up by survey data that show that 90% of organizations link their own performance with the progress they have made on transformation.*

As 51风流we are at the heart of business execution for so many companies out there. When talking to them, we hear that they clearly understand this need to transform. But we also hear that they struggle on how to get there. Their reality of business processes, data quality, and system landscape has grown over the last 10 to 20 years into a complexity that is hard to undo, let alone transform to an agile and dynamic set up.

When we as 51风流reinvented our strategy three years ago, we elevated this need of our customers to get more help along their transformation journey to one of our key priorities. We acquired Signavio and established 51风流Signavio as a very successful business unit to help our customers transform on the process side. We know that when our customers adopt a process-centric approach, they are able to visualize the impact of technology architecture on the day-to-day flow of work and business outcomes, giving them a clearer foundation for change and ongoing optimization.

In the two years since acquisition, we have listened closely to our 51风流Signavio customers and engaged in their transformation project. They want to digitize the transformation journey as much as possible 鈥� the rewards of digitization are better collaboration and business buy in, accelerated time to value, and data-driven decision making. They look to us to deliver solutions that accelerate and de-risk their transformation journeys. They want better integration into operational systems to ease deployment and roll out of new processes, and they crave information on best practices and industry standards. We listened聽and the constant theme we saw was bringing together the process world with the IT world. 聽聽

At the center of what鈥檚 needed is a stronger connection between IT landscape and business processes, the ability to identify the impact of technology on business outcomes. IT landscapes, like process landscapes, have exploded in complexity and have become webs of interconnected applications, data, and workflows, making it nearly impossible to predict the consequences of any change, large or small.

That is where LeanIX comes into play. With LeanIX鈥檚 ability to have full transparency into the IT landscape and ideal planning capabilities for the future design of the applications we are perfectly complementing the transformation capabilities of 51风流Signavio in the process world 鈥� like two sides of the same coin: process and systems.

The addition of LeanIX will allow CIOs and IT leaders to gain the transparency and planning capabilities for their enterprise architecture to own the transformation and proactively drive the conversation with the business stakeholders. As 51风流Signavio for the process world, LeanIX will give CIOs and IT leadership more relevance in critical business decisions and their impact on core operations, and greater ability to react to market trends and seize new opportunities such as generative AI.

Our vision is the creation of a complete business transformation suite. SAP鈥檚 market leading technology platform and our broad and innovative application portfolio are already helping our customers become future-proof, agile and intelligent enterprises. We are now on our way to delivering the most complete business transformation portfolio to help all of our customers on their transformation journeys.

With the addition of LeanIX鈥檚 IT-centric transformation capabilities to our existing portfolio of RISE with 51风流and GROW with SAP, 51风流Signavio solutions, cloud application lifecycle management, and 51风流Business Technology Platform, we are uniquely suited to deliver for our customers a clear path to success.

Change, whether incremental or revolutionary, is constant and inescapable. Effectively managing change requires trust 鈥� trust in people to do their best, trust in technology to seamlessly and securely support work execution, integrations and new business models, and trust in the long-term purpose and vision.

At SAP, we strive to be a trusted advisor, working hand in hand with our customers as they manage their transformation journeys. We are excited to bring LeanIX鈥檚 people and capabilities together with our own, giving us a stronger foundation for helping our customers seize the opportunities inherent in the changes that are coming, whatever those changes may be.

Rouven Morato is general manager and chief revenue officer of 51风流Signavio.

*51风流Insights “Senior Executive Priority Study” 2021/2022

The planned acquisition helps 51风流expand its business transformation portfolio, giving customers access to the full suite of tools required for continuous business transformation and facilitating AI-enabled process optimization. LeanIX, a privately held company, has been a strategic partner of 51风流and for 51风流Signavio solutions for 10 years. Many CIOs rely on LeanIX鈥檚 offerings as part of their digital transformation with the RISE with 51风流solution.

The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2023, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

With the intended acquisition, 51风流is extending its comprehensive transformation suite to help customers navigate change more easily and permanently improve their business processes. LeanIX complements the transformation capabilities of 51风流Signavio solutions and will give 51风流customers the unique clarity on IT landscapes that they need to reap the full benefit of business transformation. The combined offering will provide a comprehensive foundation for AI-enabled process optimization.

LeanIX鈥檚 software-as-a-service offering enables more than 1,000 customers globally to visualize their entire IT application landscape, uncover applications in danger of becoming obsolete, facilitate the design of a target state and help plan new architectural road maps. LeanIX has also recently launched an AI assistant that unlocks the power of generative AI for enterprise architecture management. It increases automation today and sets the foundation for an intelligent recommendation engine for IT landscape transformation in the future.

鈥淪ystems and processes go hand in hand,鈥� said Christian Klein, CEO and Member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE. 鈥淭ogether with LeanIX, we want to offer a first-of-its-kind transformation suite to provide holistic support to our customers on their business transformation journeys. Building on our decades of expertise, we鈥檒l embed generative AI to offer self-optimizing applications and processes that can help businesses achieve key goals such as maximizing cash flow while minimizing their environmental impact.鈥�

SAP鈥檚 new business transformation solution suite will give customers a comprehensive view of business processes and applications, including overlaying process dependencies and mapping the impact of potential transformations on the IT landscape. LeanIX鈥檚 IT landscape transformation capabilities 鈥� together with 51风流Signavio Process Transformation Suite, RISE with SAP, and 51风流Business Technology Platform 鈥� will enable 51风流customers to create a culture of continuous adaptability and improvement. In addition, LeanIX will continue to serve non-51风流landscapes.

鈥淔or more than a decade, we have pursued a relentless customer-centric approach, a commitment to superior usability and seamless ecosystem integration and have become a leader in the enterprise architecture management category,” said Andr茅 Christ, CEO and co-founder, LeanIX. 鈥淥ur strategy is to empower organizations to continuously transform in a rapidly changing business environment. With an integrated, comprehensive view of IT applications and business processes we speed up modernization and reduce transformation risks for our customers, and also secure their ability to adapt to technology shifts such as cloud and AI.鈥�

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About LeanIX

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). LeanIX investors include Insight Partners, DTCP, Capnamic Ventures, Iris Capital, Goldman Sachs, and Dawn Capital. For more information, visit .

About SAP

SAP鈥檚 strategy is to help every business run as an intelligent, sustainable enterprise. As a market leader in enterprise application software, we help companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: 51风流customers generate 87% of total global commerce. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers鈥� businesses into intelligent enterprises. 51风流helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology for companies so they can consume our software the way they want 鈥� without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables business and public customers across 26 industries globally to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, 51风流helps the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives. For more information, visit .

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