Calling all SAP enterprise architects-the strategy guide you need is here! See how the SAP EA Framework and SAP LeanIX support your enterprise architecture with methodology, reference content, tools, and services. Explore examples of architecture design pattern implementation for real-world use cases, including business model transformation, TCO reduction, sustainability, and more. Follow SAP's blueprint to set up your own enterprise architecture practice. Get best practices, expert tips, full-color architecture diagrams, and more!
In this book, you'll learn about:
a. Fundamentals
Learn the basics of enterprise architecture within SAP landscapes. Walk through SAP EA Framework and understand its integration with ancillary business functions such as process, portfolio, and application management.
b. Use Cases
See enterprise architecture transformation at work! Practical use cases showcase how architecture patterns can be used to solve design problems in various business scenarios: cloud transformation, sustainability, automation, and more.
c. Implementation
Launch your own enterprise architecture transformation. Following guidance from the experts, create or improve your practice by setting up roles, processes, and deliverables. Use tools such as SAP LeanIX and SAP Signavio to support your transformation.
Highlights include:
- 1) SAP EA Framework
- 2) SAP EA Methodology
- 3) SAP EA Designer
- 4) SAP LeanIX
- 5) Business function integration
- 6) Reference content
- 7) Enterprise architecture practices
- 8) Cloud transformation
- 9) Business process transformation
- 10) Sustainability
- 11) Mergers, acquisitions, and divestures
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Höhe: 253 mm
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978-1-4932-2573-6 (9781493225736)
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Anup Das is a chief enterprise architect and the regional delivery head for the SAP Transformation Hub in North America. He leads a team of enterprise architects and is responsible for accelerating business transformations for strategic customers using SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework and SAP MaxAttention architecture planning services.
Anup is a graduate of mechanical engineering and post-graduate of marketing management. He has more than 23 years of professional experience in SAP consulting, SAP premium engagement, people management, project management, sales and sales support, and as head of SAP S/4HANA and supply chain practice. Anup is also an experienced trainer and coach.
Peter Klee leads the SAP Transformation Hub within SAP's Adoption Services Center. The SAP Transformation Hub is a global group of enterprise architects supporting SAP MaxAttention customers in their transformation programs by providing architecture planning services.
Besides working directly with customers, the SAP Transformation Hub constantly improves services, methodology and tools working closely with architecture teams in development. In this capacity, Peter co-leads SAP's overall enterprise architecture methodology as part of the cross-architecture program at SAP.
Prior to joining SAP in 2011 Peter led global enterprise architecture teams at Procter & Gamble. He has more than 30 years of professional IT experience.
Peter is based at SAP's corporate headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. He holds a degree in computer sciences from the University of Karlsruhe and is a passionate long-distance runner in his spare time.
Johannes Reichel is a principal enterprise architect for the SAP Transformation Hub EMEA, delivering enterprise architecture planning services to strategic SAP customers, and at the same time contributing to the development of SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework.
Johannes holds a degree in computational linguistics and sustainable development cooperation from the University of Heidelberg and University of Kaiserslautern. Johannes has more than 10 years of professional experience in international digital transformation programs, sustainability, and enterprise architecture.
... Foreword by Thomas Saueressig ... 17
... Foreword by André Christ ... 19
... Preface ... 21
... Who This Book Is For ... 22
... How to Read This Book: The Reading Metro Map ... 23
... Acknowledgments ... 25
... Tell Us What You Think! ... 26
PART I ... SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework ... 27
1 ... Introduction to Enterprise Architecture with SAP ... 29
1.1 ... What Is Enterprise Architecture? ... 30
1.2 ... How Is Enterprise Architecture Relevant in SAP Landscapes? ... 33
1.3 ... Evolution of Enterprise Architecture and the Enterprise Architect Role ... 35
1.4 ... Challenges and Obstacles When Implementing Enterprise Architecture ... 38
1.5 ... Summary ... 40
2 ... The SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework ... 43
2.1 ... Overview of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks ... 44
2.2 ... Enterprise Architecture Methodology ... 46
2.3 ... SAP's Reference Content ... 89
2.4 ... Preview of Tools and Practice ... 100
2.5 ... SAP's Enterprise Architecture Services ... 102
2.6 ... Summary ... 107
3 ... Functional Integration of Enterprise Architecture ... 109
3.1 ... Business Process Management ... 110
3.2 ... Data Management ... 115
3.3 ... Application Management ... 119
3.4 ... System versus Enterprise Architecture ... 120
3.5 ... Additional Functions and Practices ... 122
3.6 ... Isolated versus Integrated Functions ... 130
3.7 ... Summary ... 131
4 ... Tool Capabilities for Enterprise Architecture ... 133
4.1 ... Generic Reference Architecture ... 134
4.2 ... Architecture Model ... 135
4.3 ... Architecture Artifacts ... 135
4.4 ... Features and Capabilities ... 139
4.5 ... Integrations ... 140
4.6 ... Comparing Different Types of Enterprise Architecture Tools ... 141
4.7 ... Summary ... 143
PART II ... SAP Enterprise Architecture Use Cases and Patterns ... 145
5 ... Cloud Transformation ... 147
5.1 ... Business and IT Context ... 148
5.2 ... Problem Statement ... 160
5.3 ... Applying the Enterprise Architecture Transformation Approach ... 166
5.4 ... Key Deliverables and Outcomes ... 171
5.5 ... Summary ... 210
6 ... Business Transformation ... 211
6.1 ... Business and IT Context ... 211
6.2 ... Problem Statement ... 216
6.3 ... Applying the Enterprise Architecture Transformation Approach ... 220
6.4 ... Key Deliverables and Outcomes ... 222
6.5 ... Summary ... 245
7 ... Sustainability ... 247
7.1 ... Business and IT Context ... 248
7.2 ... Problem Statement ... 253
7.3 ... Applying the Enterprise Architecture Transformation Approach ... 256
7.4 ... Key Deliverables and Outcomes ... 260
7.5 ... Summary ... 269
8 ... Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures ... 271
8.1 ... Business and IT Context ... 272
8.2 ... Problem Statement ... 277
8.3 ... Applying the Enterprise Architecture Transformation Approach ... 280
8.4 ... Key Deliverables and Outcomes ... 283
8.5 ... Summary ... 292
9 ... Reducing Total Cost of Ownership ... 293
9.1 ... Understanding Total Cost of Ownership ... 293
9.2 ... Business and IT Context ... 298
9.3 ... Problem Statement ... 306
9.4 ... Applying the Enterprise Architecture Transformation Approach ... 309
9.5 ... Key Deliverables and Outcomes ... 313
9.6 ... Summary ... 326
10 ... Patterns for Additional Use Cases ... 329
10.1 ... Rollout Strategy Assessment ... 330
10.2 ... Two-Tier Architecture ... 334
10.3 ... Split Architecture ... 339
10.4 ... Summary ... 342
PART III ... SAP LeanIX ... 343
11 ... SAP LeanIX Overview ... 345
11.1 ... SAP LeanIX as Part of an End-to-End Toolchain ... 345
11.2 ... Fact Sheets and Meta Model ... 347
11.3 ... The SAP LeanIX Application ... 351
11.4 ... The Time Dimension: Lifecycles and Transformations ... 354
11.5 ... Workspace Setup ... 357
11.6 ... Summary ... 358
12 ... Working with SAP LeanIX ... 361
12.1 ... Dashboards ... 361
12.2 ... Common Tasks ... 362
12.3 ... Inventory ... 366
12.4 ... Tagging ... 367
12.5 ... Reports ... 370
12.6 ... Diagrams ... 381
12.7 ... Artificial Intelligence ... 387
12.8 ... Presentations ... 388
12.9 ... Subscriptions, User Roles, and Authorizations ... 390
12.10 ... Collaboration ... 391
12.11 ... Quality Management and Governance ... 396
12.12 ... Summary ... 398
13 ... Integration and Extensibility with SAP LeanIX ... 399
13.1 ... Export and Import ... 399
13.2 ... Reference Catalogs ... 402
13.3 ... Extending the Meta Model ... 406
13.4 ... Integrations ... 408
13.5 ... Advanced Customization ... 413
13.6 ... Summary ... 417
14 ... SAP LeanIX in Practice ... 419
14.1 ... Application Portfolio Management ... 419
14.2 ... Roadmap and Transformation Management ... 423
14.3 ... Clean Core Modeling ... 435
14.4 ... Summary ... 437
PART IV ... Enterprise Architecture Practice ... 439
15 ... Setting Up an Enterprise Architecture Practice ... 441
15.1 ... Enterprise Architecture Practice Overview ... 442
15.2 ... Enterprise Architecture Maturity ... 445
15.3 ... Organizational Setup ... 448
15.4 ... Enterprise Architecture Processes ... 455
15.5 ... Enterprise Architecture Governance ... 461
15.6 ... Enterprise Architecture Skills and Enablement ... 469
15.7 ... Hiring an Enterprise Architecture Team ... 476
15.8 ... Enterprise Architecture Communication and Communities ... 477
15.9 ... Use Cases for Practice Evolution ... 480
15.10 ... Summary ... 484
16 ... Enterprise Architecture at SAP ... 487
16.1 ... Overview of Enterprise Architecture Practices at SAP ... 487
16.2 ... Enterprise Architecture in Advisory and Services ... 490
16.3 ... Enterprise Architecture in SAP Product Development ... 495
16.4 ... Enterprise Architecture in Internal IT at SAP ... 498
16.5 ... Summary ... 507
PART V ... Outlook and Conclusion ... 509
17 ... Next Big Trends in Architecture ... 511
17.1 ... AI-Supported Enterprise Architecture Transformation ... 512
17.2 ... The Enterprise Architecture Network ... 517
17.3 ... Enterprise Architecture-Driven Innovation ... 520
17.4 ... Continuous Clean Architecture ... 521
17.5 ... Global Networks for Enterprise Architecture ... 524
17.6 ... Agile and Iterative Architecture ... 526
17.7 ... Quantum Computing ... 529
17.8 ... Summary ... 534
18 ... Conclusion, Summary, and Key Takeaways ... 535
... Appendices ... 545
A ... Abbreviations and Glossary ... 545
B ... The Authors ... 551
... Index ... 553
