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Introduction How does the integration
work?
Process management for
a successful strategic IT
alignment
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Business process About LeanIX and
transformation and EAM SAP Signavio
complement one another

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SAP Signavio and LeanIX
integration ties enterprise
architecture more closely to
business objectives
Integrate enterprise architecture management and business process transformation

Introduction business process owners (who ensure processes are

Business growth is fraught with pitfalls. When product optimally executed and utilized with the right resources).
lines become increasingly complex and organizational
structures change, tasks are likely to be completed In particular, through improved connectivity between the
in duplicate or, even worse, missed altogether. two disciplines of Enterprise Architecture Management
Responsibilities within teams cannot be entirely defined (EAM) and business process transformation, IT teams
if companies fail to standardize procedures for recurring promote the goals of their business while likewise helping
corporate processes. Such environments also make it business teams identify available technological support.
especially difficult for employees to realize the extent of
their roles inside a company—an obstacle thus limiting
their potential to contribute to its success. Business process transformation and
EAM complement one another
A successful business process transformation initiative
Process management for a successful requires information from other views such as business
strategic IT alignment capabilities, IT components, data, and other relevant KPIs
Sustainable approaches to the alignment of business to design, optimize, and automate processes for better
functions and IT operations require an integration of the business results. A similar approach is also valid for EAM,
very tools already helping employees in many workplaces which needs to have an understanding of the business
connect to one another, and their business. There is context to translate the business strategy into IT strategy
perhaps no better way of doing so than by sharing the and plan architectural changes. Getting better clarity of
foremost tools of enterprise architects (who align IT the business is often assessed through BPM artifacts and
architecture in ways that better support business) and metrics (see Figure 1).

Figure 1
Complementary Processes

Business process
SAP architecture
Process
Signavio
Business capabilities
architecture

Application Integration
architecture architecture

Software technology
architecture

Productized infrastructure
services
Enterprise architecture and business process
transformation complement each other at
Hardware technology an architectural level to support business
architecture goals. While process transformation focuses
on business process architecture, EA leverages
underlying architectural types such as
business capabilities architecture, application
architecture, and software technology
architecture to strengthen business process
Source: LeanIX management, and vice versa.

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Both fields complement one another and in turn, augment effectiveness too, as seen in Benefits of business process
transformation and enterprise architecture management (Table 1).

Table 1
Benefits of business process transformation and enterprise architecture management

BUSINESS PROCESS TRANSFORMATION BENEFITS ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE BENEFITS

• Apply architectural considerations to business process • Use business processes for enterprise architectural analysis
transformation solution delivery, enable re-use and IT and blueprint design
governance
• Analyze business processes to verify optimal IT infrastructure
• Provide corporate-approved templates and blueprints to implementation (applications, processes, and IT components)
govern and facilitate business processes
• Examine the impact of utilizing processes across silos in an
• Optimize and deploy process models for maximized enterprise
business outcome
• Validate against other corporate solution delivery
• Publish updated processes for corporate re-use and IT approaches
governance

Source: Combining Business Process Management and Enterprise Architecture for Better Business Outcomes, IBM, March 2011

SAP Signavio and LeanIX integration ties enterprise Integration with LeanIX Enterprise Architecture
architecture more closely to business objectives Management and SAP Signavio Process Manager
IT support for corporate processes is crucial in enabling enables closer ties between enterprise architects and
businesses to detect improvements or the effects business stakeholders (see Figure 2). If applications are
of changes in their environment. It’s necessary to decommissioned, this requires an understanding of the
associate IT applications with corporate processes to process and its effects both in IT and in the business
identify how well (and how extensively) a process is departments—all of which are essential in executing
enabled by the company’s IT department. Detailed IT use cases critical to an enterprise’s overall health, such
applications, for example, allow technological risks to as technology risk management.
be assigned directly to a process.

Figure 2
SAP Signavio Process Manager

Source: SAP Signavio

SAP Signavio Process Manager associates IT applications with business processes. LeanIX applications are
provided in the SAP Signavio Glossary for modeling purposes.

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Whether using SAP Signavio or LeanIX, the integration application portfolio management to hand. LeanIX
allows business and IT personnel to use the tools of offers user-friendly editing functions and shareable
their choice while maintaining one shared view of the reporting to evaluate IT application portfolios from
company’s processes and all available IT support. All multiple dimensions efficiently. The derived insights can
of which ensures each operates in a unified language be applied directly to reinforce processes in LeanIX
with more effective collaboration. (see Figure 3). Furthermore, in addition to assessments
of criticality and suitability, LeanIX applications can
Process transparency and well-defined IT applications be assigned a lifecycle and a successor system to
are conducive for minimizing manners of risk and guarantee business continuation.
enable enterprise architects to have the most current

Figure 3
SAP Signavio Diagrams Stored in LeanIX

Source: LeanIX

LeanIX visualizes the relationship between IT applications

and processes. Images of process diagrams and links to
SAP Signavio diagrams are stored within the LeanIX Process
Fact Sheet document.

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How does the integration work? Pre-existing access to both SAP Signavio and LeanIX
Connecting business process transformation and EAM is all that’s required to take advantage of the features
benefits organizations of all shapes and sizes. Easy-to- listed in the table above. Simply use your SAP Signavio
configure and with synchronously linked data, LeanIX user data to connect to the SAP Signavio workspace
users can take advantage of SAP Signavio’s next-gen in LeanIX and update your data by synchronizing all
technology to redirect fully realized company processes available information. If you already have processes
back to their IT inventory and enrich its content (see stored in SAP Signavio, and IT applications associated
Table 2). with them, these are transferred to the LeanIX
repository (and vice versa). IT applications in LeanIX
are automatically made available in the SAP Signavio
workspace.

Table 2
Summary of Features

• SAP Signavio Business Transformation • Intuitive platform for managing

Suite helps customers understand, IT portfolios to make data-driven
improve, and transform their business analysis
processes — fast and at scale
• Enterprise architecture and
• Collaborative capabilities for end- application portfolio management
to-end transparency and customer to quickly see application
excellence strategies redundancies and lifecycle

• QuickModel Editor for speed, • Collaboration across the enterprise

efficiency, and business impact to ensure business needs are
reflected in IT initiatives
• Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
accessibility to optimize business • Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for
processes and drive intelligent optimizing business process and
advantage agility

Source: LeanIX

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Here’s how the SAP Signavio-LeanIX integration works. The results of integrating business process
transformation, mining, and enterprise architecture will
1. The SAP Signavio integration automatically creates enable enterprise architects to better strategically align
all Process Fact Sheets in LeanIX. their IT architecture landscape. Key benefits include:

2. Applications captured in LeanIX can be linked to • Consistency of managed information across two
processes in LeanIX. different application types.

3. Once a process is linked to an application, its • Reduced costs of manual data management.
definition is displayed directly on the Fact Sheet.
• Improved alignment of process and IT systems
4. The documents section allows you to jump directly across silos.
to the SAP Signavio process.
• Greater transparency when decommissioning
5. In SAP Signavio, you can include LeanIX applications processes and systems to minimize errors.
from the dictionary to your process definition.

6. Process documentation updates are automatically Learn more about how to integrate the SAP
shown in LeanIX. Signavio Process Transformation Suite and LeanIX
Enterprise Architecture Management by reading the
7. The Process Fact Sheet is also automatically updated.
documentation.
8. LeanIX and SAP Signavio reporting allows you to
display the relationship between processes and
applications.

9. By adapting the view, you can directly relate your

processes to data classification and other aspects.

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