This beginner training introduces you to Application Rationalization with SAP LeanIX—a key practice to reduce IT complexity, optimize costs, and accelerate transformation. You will learn how to assess and streamline application portfolios, identify redundancy, and gain actionable cost insights with automated TCO calculations. Through demos, guided exercises, and hands-on challenges, you’ll practice structuring your application landscape, prioritizing candidates for rationalization, and aligning spend with business strategy. By the end of the course, you will understand how SAP LeanIX supports data-driven decisions from as-is transparency to to-be planning, enabling CIOs, architects, and application owners to drive efficiency, resiliency, and innovation.
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Syllabus
- Introducing the Strategy & Cost Awareness
- Welcome
- Introducing the Application Rationalization
- Getting to Know Business Drivers, Benefits & Cost Levers
- Identifying Key Stakeholders & Governance Roles
- Setting Goals, KPIs & Cost Targets
- Experiencing SAP LeanIX Demo: Foundations & Cost Insights
- Downloads
- Introducing the Strategy & Cost Awareness
- Scoping & Data Enrichment
- Getting to Know Strategy in Practice (Global Bike)
- Scoping Applications & Cost-Relevant Groups
- Designing and Sending Surveys
- Capturing Functional Fit, Technical Fit & TCO Data
- Applying TIME & Cost Impact Analysis
- Downloads
- Scoping & Data Enrichment
- Evaluating & Prioritizing
- Evaluating the Portfolio in SAP LeanIX Reports
- Exploring Matrix & Portfolio Views
- Identifying Top Eliminate Candidates & Cost Impact
- Prioritizing Strategies: Cost, Risk & Value
- Making Informed Decision
- Communicating Results
- Downloads
- Evaluating & Prioritizing
- Executing & Cost Tracking
- Creating a Project Roadmap in SAP LeanIX
- Building Dashboards for Progress & TCO Tracking
- Preparing CIO Summary
- Summarizing & Outlook
- Downloads
- Executing & Cost Tracking