Palo Alto

Begin your day at LeanIX Connect On Tour by picking up your name badge at our registration desk. Enjoy a cup of warm coffee while you settle in, acquaint yourself with the venue, and get ready for a day filled with insightful sessions, networking opportunities, and knowledge sharing.

In the opening session, you'll discover technology's role in navigating a business environment facing disruption after disruption. Explore how transformative technology like AI can be leveraged as a catapult for growth and innovation despite this - setting you up to proactively manage whatever comes next. Best of all, we unpack this through the lens of the LeanIX product strategy within SAP and beyond for the year ahead. We're excited to have you join us as we lead technology transformation, together.

Imagine a world where IT surprises are a distant memory. Where business decisions are seamlessly translated into technology solutions, and vice versa. Today, many challenges arise from misaligned business and IT decisions that can lead to missed opportunities, operational disruptions and frustration. To avoid this, it is important to understand all dependencies between business processes and IT execution to assess the associated effects across all company levels, departments and employees. In this session, we will show you how to recognize and understand the correlations with the help of our solutions, and how you can solve them with an agile approach.

I remember Tony (IT CIO) asking me what my 30-60-90 day plan would look like on the second day after I joined Five9. He explained to me how his lean IT team of < 100 has done amazing feat of standing up various IT services and oh, btw, we work mostly in the cloud. That was music to my ears. But soon I realized the nuance of SaaS proliferation – integrations were a pain. IT was on top of their game but a simple question like – “how many apps does IT own and support” resulted in multiple answers, some ballpark, some ranges, etc. I knew we were starting from scratch when it came to EA practice. Come one year anniversary, we have cataloged over 180+ apps, 98% of portfolio being SaaS based but it supports business architecture for most Business Units with 3 level capability hierarchy, all documented in LeanIX. Oh, btw we also matured by establishing our Architecture Governance model for high profile projects as well as improved fluency across enterprise around EA value add and be more strategic when creating solutions for the enterprise.

Harness the power of EAM and lean portfolio planning to drive more intelligent IT budgeting, accelerate innovation and improve ROI.

The presence of technical debt means organizations cannot leverage new technological innovations like AI and cloud technologies. Companies accumulate technical debt through actions like maintaining multiple redundant applications or continuing with outdated or unsupported applications, often leading to high costs, system outages, lost productivity, and employee churn.
In this session we’ll discuss some of the best practices for evaluating and rationalizing tech debt to bolster large-scale digital transformations.

In today's digital-first age, organizations must continually adapt and innovate to stay ahead in the technology and competition. This requires close collaboration between IT and Business teams to ensure that technology solutions are aligned with core business objectives. Join us in this session where we will explore the common challenges when it comes to collaboration between IT and Business teams and how to overcome them, and share best practices to strengthen the relationship.

In this 60-minute workshop session, participants will explore how LeanIX can help them tackle the challenges of tech risk. Guided by experts, attendees will delve into the capabilities of LeanIX, learning how automation empowers organizations to manage and navigate the complexities of technological obsolescence effectively. Through hands-on demonstrations and interactive sessions, participants will discover how to identify, assess and address obsolete technologies. By the session's end, attendees will gain practical insights and strategies to optimize their tech landscapes, ensuring agility, resilience, and future-proofing in the face of rapid technological evolution.

Collaboration plays a crucial role in enterprise architecture and successfully executing transformation plans. Join us in this interactive and hands on session guided by experts where you will learn how to foster collaboration between IT and Business teams, break down siloes and drive innovation using LeanIX. Together we will also explore different practical scenarios and how you can leverage collaboration capabilities within LeanIX to drive successful modernization of your application landscape. By the end of this workshop, you will gain actionable insights and be able to implement best practices between IT and Business teams to align application modernization efforts with business objectives and digital transformation goals.

Concora Credit is a service provider for banks focusing on helping non-prime consumers gain access to credit. We’ve been in business for 20+ years and have helped millions of customers Do More with Credit every day. Therefore, compliance with this Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is critical for protecting our customers’ data and maintaining the confidence of our business partners.  At Concora Credit, LeanIX plays a critical role in achieving and maintaining PCI compliance.  We use LeanIX to track applications that handle Cardholder Data (CHD) and manage the overall compliance process. We use LeanIX diagrams to identify where CHD is transmitted and exchanged. We make these diagrams available to internal and external auditors so they can verify that the applications that handle CHD are PCI-compliant.  We also use LeanIX data and process diagrams to identify systems that must be checked for PCI compliance. This session will introduce Concora Credit and PCI DSS and illustrate how LeanIX can be used to maintain PCI 3.21 compliance and prepare for PCI 4.0. 

Every enterprise is balancing the imperative to apply AI to a myriad of potential use cases with the need to mitigate risks and adhere to internal and external AI policies. Enterprise architects are at the forefront of facilitating these objectives, which are frequently at odds. In this session, LeanIX will delve into how enterprise architects can approach AI within their ecosystems, navigate the tension between enabling innovation and avoiding risks, and outline how LeanIX is positioned to help architects tackle the challenges AI presents.

Conclude a day of insights, networking, and collaboration at LeanIX Connect On Tour with our closing session, where we recap key takeaways and leave you inspired for the exciting possibilities ahead in the field of enterprise architecture.