Today’s business transformations are diverse, ranging from creating new products or services and entering new markets to adopting cybersecurity frameworks and transitioning to net-neutral carbon emissions. However, these transformations are neither swift nor inexpensive, and sometimes the costs can be hidden.

That is why 麻豆原创 has partnered with Oxford Economics on a new and comprehensive survey of large organizations, providing an exclusive look at the current global state of business transformation.

鈥溾�� reveals the true cost of business transformation, with the data aimed at helping organizations maximize transformation success and take the guesswork out of transformation budgeting.

Spanning a range of industries and focusing on companies with a minimum revenue of $500 million, the report provides insights from a balanced audience of 800 respondents, including IT professionals and leaders from corporate strategy, R&D, finance, manufacturing, HR, and operations.

The paper further reveals that:

• Barely half of transformations go according to plan (51 percent)
• Fifty-eight percent of transformations end up going over budget
• The average cost of transformation efforts is 鈧�9.5 million
• Sixty-three percent of respondents face resistance from leadership regarding the value of transformation efforts
• Nearly half of the initiatives highlighted by respondents remain incomplete, and budgetary constraints pose a significant challenge

From Strategy to Execution

In broad terms, this disconnect between the confidence level of respondents and what the report data reveals about the true cost and organizational impact of transformation can be understood in the equivalent disconnect between strategy and execution.

For example, while three in five say their major transformation plan was well communicated across their organization, only 53 percent say it was clearly defined in the first place.

While most companies are employing strategic practices such as crafting mission statements, appointing dedicated leaders, and forming cross-functional teams, they can lack the final piece of the puzzle when it comes to converting strategy into action. That is where 麻豆原创 comes in.

鈥淭ransformation challenges will always exist, particularly in aligning execution with strategic road maps,鈥� Dee Houchen, head of Marketing for 麻豆原创 Signavio and 麻豆原创 LeanIX, shared. “As companies navigate these complexities, the path to successful transformation remains a critical focus for global businesses, which is why this research is so relevant.”

“ and solutions offer clarity and transparency in business transformation, helping organizations leverage enterprise analytics and process data to really turn transformation plans into action through supporting decision-making, setting timelines, and tracking progress effectively,” Houchen said. “This report is an invaluable resource for anyone wondering why their transformation efforts have slowed, what they can do differently, and how others have identified and overcome similar hurdles to their own.鈥�

Lucas de Boer is Global Marketing program lead for 麻豆原创 Signavio at 麻豆原创.

But what struck me the most was his simple answer to my question about his advice for others in helping them make the case for change. He said, why change? This is the wrong question to ask. The better question is, why not change?  

RES鈥檚 story and the many others shared by 麻豆原创 customers at 麻豆原创 Sapphire Orlando and Barcelona reminded me of an essential truth about business transformations in the age of generative AI. While the solutions and technologies are impressive, the stories of business value and business results matter the most.  

During those two weeks, 麻豆原创 showed over 25,000 customers, partners, analysts, and media members, both on-site and online, how we support businesses to bring out their best. We announced new AI-embedded solutions within our apps, including expanding our generative AI copilot Joule throughout our enterprise portfolio, and expanded collaborations and partnerships with AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud, Meta, Mistral AI, and NVIDIA to deliver even more value for our customers. 

We also announced our intention to acquire WalkMe with its state-of-the-art digital adoption platform. Along with 麻豆原创 Signavio to manage processes and 麻豆原创 LeanIX to manage enterprise architecture, with WalkMe to guide user adoption we will soon have a best-in-class transformation portfolio and help our customers maximize the value of their cloud investments with 麻豆原创 and continue driving tangible results for their business.聽

When it comes to the value our customers are getting from our solutions, the stats don鈥檛 lie. For example, customers who chose have outperformed the market in revenue growth by 7%. Solutions like Taulia are helping businesses unlock the power of their working capital to fuel growth and drive innovation, with customers seeing their free cash flows improve by more than US$1 billion. 

When we look across our total customer base and our entire portfolio of solutions, over the coming years we expect to see our customers experience approximately $2.4 trillion in economic savings, around $5.4 trillion in increased revenue, and a double-digit increase in their employee satisfaction, allowing them to retain talent and reduce churn. 

But my favorite part of 麻豆原创 Sapphire every year is hearing customers tell their stories in their own words. To me, that鈥檚 the real magic of 麻豆原创 Sapphire.  

In Orlando, we heard from Brian Hardee of PureTech Scientific about the impact the public cloud has had on helping them scale up quickly as a standalone business, especially in the life sciences industry where data is everything. Jeff Lischett of Tropicana Brands Group talked about how RISE with 麻豆原创 gives them newfound speed and agility from a modern ERP to drive growth and set themselves up for success with business AI.聽Ingo Elfering of Fresenius spoke about the company’s technical implementation of RISE with 麻豆原创 and how it鈥檚 given them simpler processes and a modern base for innovation and change. Takuya Sakai of Hitachi High Tech talked about the value that operating from a clean core has for their business by helping them simplify their processes and gain a competitive advantage.聽聽聽聽

Then, in Barcelona, Elisabet Braza Valle of Gonz谩lez Byass talked about how her nearly 200-year-old company, famous for producing sherry in Spain, is giving back to the land by putting sustainability front and center at every stage of its operations, thanks to 麻豆原创 solutions. 脰zlem Altini艧ik of Martur Fompak talked about their RISE with 麻豆原创 implementation, which they called Project Inspire because they saw the offering as a platform for growth and continuous improvement for the future. Ashish Agrawal of KONE spoke about how their embrace of a clean core has enabled them to adopt standardized processes as part of their transformation.   

These are just a small sample of the value stories shared during 麻豆原创 Sapphire. Most importantly, they show that businesses bringing out their best isn鈥檛 hypothetical; it鈥檚 happening every day. And in the age of business AI, it is just the tip of the iceberg for what will soon be possible for every business. At 麻豆原创, we remain steadfast as we did 52 years ago, to do our best in enabling our customers, partners, and teams every day to bring out their best!  

Scott Russell is chief revenue officer and member of the Executive Board of 麻豆原创 SE.
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Successful businesses keep moving and evolving, especially in times of rapid change and macroeconomic uncertainty. And given the current volatility, business transformation is no longer optional; it鈥檚 imperative.

Knowing this, we launched RISE with 麻豆原创 in 2021 not as a technical IT migration approach, but as a comprehensive solution designed to drive broad business transformation. With 6,000 customers having selected RISE with 麻豆原创, we know we cannot stop moving either. And I was how we are taking the RISE with 麻豆原创 experience to the next level and improving services and delivery for customers end-to-end.

Here are some key takeaways.

Evolving How We Engage with Customers

Navigating the transformation of today’s complex system landscapes and business processes is like orchestrating a symphony with countless instruments and moving parts. To succeed, we need to keep refining our engagement approach to better manage the intricacies of our customers鈥� complex architecture at an unprecedented level of detail.

To this end, we鈥檙e making a lot of changes in how we engage with customers, including strengthening the role of the enterprise architect (EA). The EA harmonizes all elements and guides the customer throughout their cloud journey.

Enhancing Methodologies

We know the biggest challenge for any cloud transformation is to make the system landscape more agile and enable innovation — quickly. We鈥檝e been listening and have introduced solutions. For example, our RISE with 麻豆原创 Methodology is a significant step forward in creating a consistent experience for all RISE with 麻豆原创 customers, independent of their individual cloud journeys. Now, a dedicated enterprise architect guides customers through the RISE with 麻豆原创 Methodology to enhance onboarding and provides transparency throughout the project with key milestone checks, q-gates, and checklists that ensure consistent quality and more predictable timelines throughout the implementation process.

This new offering is included in our program, which is designed to give customers the confidence to migrate even the most complex ERP systems to the cloud. By enabling our customers to integrate and extend 麻豆原创 S/4HANA with a clean core approach, we ensure our customers experience better maintainability and lower total cost of ownership.鈥� Because legacy ERP systems often carry technical debt and, let鈥檚 face it, code is also a liability not just an asset. The more code you have, the more you have to optimize, debug, and modernize. And this is something we all need to actively work against.

Introducing Partner Training and Validation

We are also making it easier for RISE with 麻豆原创 customers to identify partners to help with complex 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud transformations. It is essential for our partner ecosystem to follow the RISE with 麻豆原创 Methodology as well. For customers to onboard successfully, there needs to be a close alignment between 麻豆原创, the customer, and implementation partner. This is why we are training and validating partners to use the RISE with 麻豆原创 Methodology and will collaborate closely with partners to provide consistency and quality.

We are also introducing the RISE with 麻豆原创 Validated Partner recognition, which verifies a partner鈥檚 adherence to the RISE with 麻豆原创 Methodology and our q-gates, giving businesses the confidence to know that they are fully leveraging the potential of cloud-based innovations from 麻豆原创. Almost 90% of all 麻豆原创 implementations are overseen by partners, so training and validating them is a key part of our strategy to ensure consistency and quality for customers.

Building a Seamless End-to-End Tool Chain

As a former 麻豆原创 CIO, I鈥檝e felt the challenges (and pain) of large-scale transformation. I know the pressure CIOs are under to show tangible business outcomes quickly. It鈥檚 why true business transformation requires a holistic approach, not a simple technology lift and shift.

We deliver the most complete business transformation suite in the industry. With the range of capabilities on offer today 鈥� including 麻豆原创 Signavio, 麻豆原创 LeanIX, and 麻豆原创 Cloud ALM solutions as well as 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform 鈥� we have an amazing set of tools to bring out the best in businesses. Now, we are bringing them more closely together as one end-to-end seamless tool chain to make it easier to manage the process, system, and data landscape holistically.

With our recently announced agreement to acquire WalkMe, we plan to further strengthen our ability to deliver successful business transformation across applications, processes, systems, and people. 鈥媁alkMe will help us incorporate user-centric adoption, enablement, and productivity capabilities alongside our Business Transformation Management portfolio of 麻豆原创 Signavio and 麻豆原创 LeanIX solutions. And WalkMe鈥檚 AI capabilities will complement our process AI with user intelligence, improving the capabilities of our to help people get work done faster.鈥�

麻豆原创 Business AI: New Frontier for Business Transformation

In 2024, 麻豆原创 Sapphire has been an opportunity for us to showcase how we are introducing in a new era of optimized business operations, with all the IT complexity concealed behind intuitive, AI-powered user experiences.

We highlighted the progress we are making embedding Joule throughout our enterprise portfolio and the enormous potential we see for AI to support both customers and partners in their RISE with 麻豆原创 journey. I was thrilled to announce that starting in Q4 of 2024, customers and partners can leverage generative AI-powered assistance for their RISE with 麻豆原创 clean core success plan.

We are also bringing new consulting capabilities to Joule, aimed at simplifying 麻豆原创 implementations for partners. The new consulting capability draws insights from 麻豆原创 product documentation and the 麻豆原创 community to provide consultants with vital information and is planned to be available in the second half of this year.

Business Transformation: More Than an IT Project

At 麻豆原创, we understand that true business transformation is more than an IT project. It requires a holistic approach and not a simple technological lift and shift. That鈥檚 why we are putting the people, methodologies, financial incentives, tools, partner practices, and 麻豆原创 Business AI in place to ensure our customers not only have compelling reasons to move to the cloud, but also a compelling experience.

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Thomas Saueressig is a member of the Executive Board of 麻豆原创 SE leading Customer Services & Delivery.

WalkMe’s solutions help organizations navigate constant technology change by providing users with advanced guidance and automation features that enable them to execute workflows seamlessly across any number of applications. This results in higher adoption of the underlying application and as such drives value realization.

The Executive and Supervisory Boards of 麻豆原创 SE and the board of directors of WalkMe have approved the transaction for US $14.00 per share in an all-cash transaction, representing an equity value of approximately US $1.5 billion. The offer price represents a 45% premium to WalkMe鈥檚 closing share price on June聽4, 2024.

The envisioned combination complements 麻豆原创鈥檚 Business Transformation Management portfolio around 麻豆原创 Signavio and 麻豆原创 LeanIX solutions to help customers on their transformation journeys.

鈥淎pplications, processes, data and people are the four key elements of a successful business transformation,鈥� said Christian Klein, CEO and member of the Executive Board of 麻豆原创 SE. 鈥淏y acquiring WalkMe, we are doubling down on the support we provide our end users, helping them to quickly adopt new solutions and features to get the maximum value out of their IT investments.鈥�

WalkMe: Focus on Analyzing Adoption and Business Transformation

鈥淲e are thrilled to join forces with 麻豆原创. This acquisition marks a significant milestone in our journey, providing us with the resources and customer base necessary to enhance our product offerings and expand our market reach,鈥� said Dan Adika, CEO of WalkMe. 鈥淏y leveraging 麻豆原创’s extensive ecosystem, we are poised to unlock substantial growth opportunities and deliver even greater value to our customers. Together, we look forward to a future filled with innovation and exceptional service.鈥�

WalkMe helps organizations boost enterprise productivity and lower risk by enabling consistent, effective and efficient use of software and the workflows it enables. Its DAP works on top of an organization’s application landscape, detects where people encounter friction and provides the tailored support and automation they need to complete the job to be done, right in the flow of work, across any application. Importantly, WalkMe will continue to fully support non-麻豆原创 applications.

Soon, WalkMe will launch the WalkMe^X copilot, which will use WalkMe’s contextual awareness and AI to suggest the best next step for any workflow, anywhere. WalkMe^X has the capability to always be on, serving as an overlay to any application, including copilots from different vendors that companies use in their landscapes. Integrating the strength of WalkMe’s adoption capabilities with 麻豆原创’s copilot Joule will boost AI assistant and productivity gains for all 麻豆原创 customers. Additionally, integrating distinctive e-learning features in the 麻豆原创 Enable Now solution with WalkMe will form the center of 麻豆原创’s people-centric transformation approach going forward.

The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of WalkMe shareholder approval and necessary regulatory clearances, and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2024. The impact of the transaction on 麻豆原创鈥檚 non-IFRS earnings per share for fiscal 2024 is expected to be immaterial.

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About WalkMe

WalkMe (NASDAQ: WKME), headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, pioneered DAP innovations and solutions so companies can effectively navigate the constant change brought on by technology. With WalkMe, organizations drive enterprise productivity and reduce risk by ensuring consistent, responsible, and efficient adoption of software and the workflows it powers. Our AI-driven platform sits on top of an organization鈥檚 tech stack, identifies where people experience friction, and delivers the personalized guidance and automation needed to get the job done, right in the flow of work. Customers like IBM, Nestle, ThermoFisher Scientific, and the U.S. Dept. of Defense trust WalkMe to create the people-centric experiences required to boost the effectiveness of their workflows and maximize software ROI.

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In connection with the proposed transaction, WalkMe will prepare a proxy statement to be delivered to its shareholders and furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the 鈥淪EC鈥�). INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT WHEN IT BECOMES AVAILABLE AND OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED OR FURNISHED TO THE SEC IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROPOSED TRANSACTION OR INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE THEREIN, BECAUSE THE PROXY STATEMENT AND SUCH OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROPOSED TRANSACTION AND THE PARTIES TO THE PROPOSED TRANSACTION. This press release is not a substitute for the proxy statement or any other document that may be filed or furnished by WalkMe with the SEC.

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And it all starts with value and elevating IT for the AI era with a strong and secure digital core. This includes emphasis on adopting ready-to-scale AI models, a modern data foundation, and a flexible AI architecture that supports the use of multiple foundation models to future-proof organizations from the evolution of technology and model changes.  

According to , 40% of C-suite leaders believe their organization will fully scale generative AI enterprise-wide in six to 12 months. Currently organizations are scaling generative AI in select business areas either extensively (56%) or in a limited way (nearly 30%). Only 10% say they have scaled generative AI with extensive adoption across their entire enterprise, and just 13% are 鈥渆xtremely confident鈥� they have the right data strategy and core digital capabilities in place to effectively leverage generative AI.  

That鈥檚 why organizations are increasingly turning to 麻豆原创 and its partners to help them completely transform their business, and why 麻豆原创 and Accenture are working together to help their customers make 麻豆原创 Business AI and data their number one competitive advantage.

Accenture Embraces 麻豆原创 Business AI to Advance Business Outcomes

By Marc-Oliver Klein and Stephanie Guimbellot

麻豆原创 and Accenture have been collaborating and working with customers on technology evolution for over 40 years, using their unique strengths to help industries transform and lead in the market.

As AI is integrated into business applications, it is unleashing new levels of productivity and creativity while forging a path to the future that is different and faster than any previous technology wave.

For many clients, 2023 was a year of experimentation with generative AI. In 2024, we鈥檙e focusing on helping clients realize value at scale by going after the business potential in enterprise data with AI, strengthening digital core with embedded AI capabilities, enhancing business functions with AI insights, and accelerating revenue growth with 麻豆原创 Business AI offerings like Joule, generative AI hub, 麻豆原创 Datasphere, and 麻豆原创 HANA Cloud vector engine.

鈥淚n partnership with 麻豆原创 and its customers, we鈥檙e emphasizing must-dos for the C-suite,鈥� said Lan Guan, chief AI officer at Accenture. 鈥淭hat includes leading with value, investing in a digital core, nurturing talent, practicing responsible AI, and committing to continuous reinvention. This is how you capitalize on AI鈥檚 inflection moment strategically.鈥�

And with Joule, business process reinvention and change adoption in cloud ERP just got easier through new capabilities to boost IT and business user experiences. Accenture plans to embrace the consulting capability for Joule and ABAP code generation in compressed cloud ERP transformations and will collaborate on the consulting capability for Joule with a team of AI experts and prompt designers to facilitate relevant user responses aligned with 麻豆原创 industry best practices and clean core strategies.

鈥淥ur ecosystem plays a critical role in helping our customers adopt 麻豆原创 Business AI to get immediate value from these exciting new technologies and solutions,鈥� said 麻豆原创 Chief AI Officer Philipp Herzig. 鈥淲e very much value our long-standing partnership with Accenture. They have long been an important partner in the industry for bringing innovation to our joint customers, now also by activating 麻豆原创鈥檚 embedded AI capabilities, including Joule, and building customer use cases on 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform with 麻豆原创 AI Core and generative AI hub. I look forward to our continued collaboration and the outcomes that generative AI will deliver in both business transformations and operations for our customers.鈥�

Accenture is already working on various use cases that leverage 麻豆原创 Business AI offerings, and the company continues to take an early leadership position in 麻豆原创 Business AI.

• 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 , an 麻豆原创 2024 Innovation award winner, uses 麻豆原创 AI core and large language models (LLMs) to deliver untapped financial value in financial ledgers and transactions. It is helping Accenture business and finance leaders reduce decision-making time by 15%, reduce financial narrative efforts by 60%, and mitigate risks with real-time financial data insights, including 13,000+ user alerts per month.
• 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 uses AI models to enable intelligent, responsive, and risk-resilient supply chains to help clients manage disruptions, identify improvements, and resolve issues. The nerve center uses 麻豆原创鈥檚 generative AI hub and 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform, which connects to an LLM fully integrated with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, 麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning, and 麻豆原创 Intelligent Asset Management.

Accenture is also evolving its assets and platforms including GenWizard, SynOpps, and AI Navigator for Enterprise to help clients move to cloud ERP faster and achieve earlier business outcomes.

Make Decisions Easier with 麻豆原创 Business Transformation Solutions and Large Process Models

By Hartmut Poppinga and Jos茅 Mor谩n Moya

麻豆原创 and Accenture are teaming on 麻豆原创 Signavio and 麻豆原创 LeanIX solutions to help customers with the quantitative insights they need to get alignment and buy-in on cloud ERP and the foundation to tap into the full value of generative AI.

The combined power of 麻豆原创 and Accenture is helping customers examine business processes at every level of the organization, establish what works, discard what doesn鈥檛 and use their own data to create a business case and measure success and value over time. 麻豆原创 is helping with foundational implementation and Accenture teams are providing analysis, insights, advisory and process modeling. This collaboration is significantly reducing the time it takes clients to complete current state and gap analysis to get to value faster.

鈥淭he long-standing partnership between Accenture and 麻豆原创 is characterized by delivering successful transformation outcomes to our mutual customers,” said Mani Pirouz, chief business officer of 麻豆原创 Signavio and LeanIX. 鈥淭hrough our joint offerings we help companies become agile, resilient, and intelligent enterprises. 麻豆原创 Signavio plays a crucial role in transformations by providing insights, collaboration, governance, and execution capabilities for continuous process improvements. These allow companies to unlock business value above and beyond their technical road maps.鈥�

麻豆原创 and 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 focus is grounded in a value-led method, cloud ERP business case, and road map that takes a holistic approach to an organization鈥檚 full value chain and helps customers:

• Understand the potential to reinvent the value chain and develop end-to-end capabilities powered by generative AI and new ways of working
• Be value-led in every business capability chosen to reinvent with generative AI
• Identify strategic bets where the technology creates differentiated sources of value that cannot be easily captured by competitors
• Reorient the organization from siloed functions to end-to-end business capabilities and decision-making through a unified data architecture and cross-functional teams

鈥淐ombining 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 deep industry expertise with 麻豆原创 solutions helps clients define and realize value in a systematic way,鈥� said Caspar Borggreve, senior managing director and lead of Accenture 麻豆原创 Business Group. 鈥淭his is about shifting the focus from siloed use cases to a holistic look at industry value chains to prioritize investments, achieve efficiencies, benefit from generative AI, and scale competitiveness.鈥�

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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 enables organizations to visualize, assess and manage the transition towards their target IT architecture.

With the acquisition, 麻豆原创 is building a comprehensive transformation suite to help customers navigate change more easily and permanently improve their business processes. The combined offering will provide a comprehensive foundation for AI-enabled transformation.

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LeanIX, as a market leader in enterprise architecture management, will further enhance 麻豆原创鈥檚 ability to digitize and simplify business transformations.

With the drivers of change 鈥� customer behaviors, market conditions, innovation disruption, talent shortages, environmental conditions, etc. 鈥� transformation has become an imperative. This is backed up by survey data that show that 90% of organizations link their own performance with the progress they have made on transformation.*

As 麻豆原创 we are at the heart of business execution for so many companies out there. When talking to them, we hear that they clearly understand this need to transform. But we also hear that they struggle on how to get there. Their reality of business processes, data quality, and system landscape has grown over the last 10 to 20 years into a complexity that is hard to undo, let alone transform to an agile and dynamic set up.

When we as 麻豆原创 reinvented our strategy three years ago, we elevated this need of our customers to get more help along their transformation journey to one of our key priorities. We acquired Signavio and established 麻豆原创 Signavio as a very successful business unit to help our customers transform on the process side. We know that when our customers adopt a process-centric approach, they are able to visualize the impact of technology architecture on the day-to-day flow of work and business outcomes, giving them a clearer foundation for change and ongoing optimization.

In the two years since acquisition, we have listened closely to our 麻豆原创 Signavio customers and engaged in their transformation project. They want to digitize the transformation journey as much as possible 鈥� the rewards of digitization are better collaboration and business buy in, accelerated time to value, and data-driven decision making. They look to us to deliver solutions that accelerate and de-risk their transformation journeys. They want better integration into operational systems to ease deployment and roll out of new processes, and they crave information on best practices and industry standards. We listened聽and the constant theme we saw was bringing together the process world with the IT world. 聽聽

At the center of what鈥檚 needed is a stronger connection between IT landscape and business processes, the ability to identify the impact of technology on business outcomes. IT landscapes, like process landscapes, have exploded in complexity and have become webs of interconnected applications, data, and workflows, making it nearly impossible to predict the consequences of any change, large or small.

That is where LeanIX comes into play. With LeanIX鈥檚 ability to have full transparency into the IT landscape and ideal planning capabilities for the future design of the applications we are perfectly complementing the transformation capabilities of 麻豆原创 Signavio in the process world 鈥� like two sides of the same coin: process and systems.

The addition of LeanIX will allow CIOs and IT leaders to gain the transparency and planning capabilities for their enterprise architecture to own the transformation and proactively drive the conversation with the business stakeholders. As 麻豆原创 Signavio for the process world, LeanIX will give CIOs and IT leadership more relevance in critical business decisions and their impact on core operations, and greater ability to react to market trends and seize new opportunities such as generative AI.

Our vision is the creation of a complete business transformation suite. 麻豆原创鈥檚 market leading technology platform and our broad and innovative application portfolio are already helping our customers become future-proof, agile and intelligent enterprises. We are now on our way to delivering the most complete business transformation portfolio to help all of our customers on their transformation journeys.

With the addition of LeanIX鈥檚 IT-centric transformation capabilities to our existing portfolio of RISE with 麻豆原创 and GROW with 麻豆原创, 麻豆原创 Signavio solutions, cloud application lifecycle management, and 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform, we are uniquely suited to deliver for our customers a clear path to success.

Change, whether incremental or revolutionary, is constant and inescapable. Effectively managing change requires trust 鈥� trust in people to do their best, trust in technology to seamlessly and securely support work execution, integrations and new business models, and trust in the long-term purpose and vision.

At 麻豆原创, we strive to be a trusted advisor, working hand in hand with our customers as they manage their transformation journeys. We are excited to bring LeanIX鈥檚 people and capabilities together with our own, giving us a stronger foundation for helping our customers seize the opportunities inherent in the changes that are coming, whatever those changes may be.

Rouven Morato is general manager and chief revenue officer of 麻豆原创 Signavio.

*麻豆原创 Insights “Senior Executive Priority Study” 2021/2022

The planned acquisition helps 麻豆原创 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 麻豆原创 and for 麻豆原创 Signavio solutions for 10 years. Many CIOs rely on LeanIX鈥檚 offerings as part of their digital transformation with the RISE with 麻豆原创 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, 麻豆原创 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 麻豆原创 Signavio solutions and will give 麻豆原创 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鈥檚 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.

鈥淪ystems and processes go hand in hand,鈥� said Christian Klein, CEO and Member of the Executive Board of 麻豆原创 SE. 鈥淭ogether 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鈥檒l 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.鈥�

麻豆原创鈥檚 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鈥檚 IT landscape transformation capabilities 鈥� together with 麻豆原创 Signavio Process Transformation Suite, RISE with 麻豆原创, and 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform 鈥� will enable 麻豆原创 customers to create a culture of continuous adaptability and improvement. In addition, LeanIX will continue to serve non-麻豆原创 landscapes.

鈥淔or 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 Andr茅 Christ, CEO and co-founder, LeanIX. 鈥淥ur 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.鈥�

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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 .

About 麻豆原创

麻豆原创鈥檚 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: 麻豆原创 customers generate 87% of total global commerce. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers鈥� businesses into intelligent enterprises. 麻豆原创 helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology for companies so they can consume our software the way they want 鈥� without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables business and public customers across 26 industries globally to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, 麻豆原创 helps the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives. For more information, visit .

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