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LeanIX - What is it ?

July 17, 2026 · 21 min

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In this episode of the SAP Learning Insights Podcast, David Chaviano speaks with Anna-Lena Zhou about LeanIX as an enterprise architecture tool for mapping and managing application and technology landscapes. She explains how it helps to create transparency across business and IT, supports target-state planning and roadmaps, and provides a single source of truth through reporting, diagrams, and dashboards. Anna Lena and David also cover how LeanIX differs from andcomplements SAP Signavio, with LeanIX focused on enterprise architecture and Signavio on process transformation, modeling, and mining. Anna-Lena also gives some insights on how LeanIX collects information through integrations, supports collaboration and decision-making, and is used by enterprise architects, CIOs, business users, application owners, and solution architects.Finally, the conversation turns to AI governance, including the discovery and management of AI agents through integrations with major AI studios and the use of an MCP server for custom agents and automations. She closes with some words of wisdom by encouraging an AI-first or agent-first approach when exploring new topics.


SAP LeanIX - https://www.leanix.net/en/

Course - Stay Certified – Enterprise Architecture with SAP LeanIX: https://learning.sap.com/courses/enterprise-architecture-with-sap-leanix

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