WALLDORF, Germany and BONN, Germany, Sept. 7,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) and
LeanIX GmbH today announced that SAP has entered into an agreement
to acquire LeanIX, a leader in enterprise architecture management
(EAM) software. The planned acquisition helps SAP 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 SAP and for
SAP® Signavio® solutions for 10 years. Many CIOs rely on LeanIX's
offerings as part of their digital transformation with the RISE
with SAP 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, SAP 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
SAP Signavio solutions and will give SAP 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's 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.
"Systems and processes go hand in hand," said Christian Klein, CEO and Member of the Executive
Board of SAP SE. "Together 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'll 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."
SAP's 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's IT landscape transformation capabilities – together with
SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite, RISE with SAP, and SAP
Business Technology Platform – will enable SAP customers to create
a culture of continuous adaptability and improvement. In addition,
LeanIX will continue to serve non-SAP landscapes.
"For 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 André Christ,
CEO and co-founder, LeanIX. "Our 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."
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About SAP
SAP's 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: SAP customers generate 87% of total
global commerce. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT),
and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers' businesses
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difference. With a global network of customers, partners,
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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 www.leanix.net.
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