Highlights of the past month are the AI Agent Hub and the MCP server, which were released today. Together, they enable the trusted use of AI agents for enterprise architecture and ensure the transparency and governance of AI agents throughout your organization.

A couple of months later than initially planned, now in the first half of November, a bundle of features and improvements across your workspace will help you when tasked with reducing your application TCO.

Enjoy reading about all the exciting details and the outlook on the product's near future.

Announcements

Move to a new user authentication service

As announced in July, we'll modernize our authentication service to make user login more convenient and support more diverse single sign-on (SSO) setups. A bit later than planned, a new self-service SSO configuration will be available in early November.

Your benefits from the new service include:

• Modern authentication technologies, such as OpenID Connect (OIDC), to create a seamless user login experience by passing the user authentication from an identity and access management system to other applications.

• Configuration of multiple identity providers (IDPs) and single sign-on (SSO) solutions for different legal or regional entities of large organizations (e.g., one workspace with two different SSO configurations or one SAP LeanIX account with different SSO configurations for a live and a sandbox workspace.

• Change SSO configurations in self-service without contacting our support team.

Don't worry—nothing will change if you don't use an SSO solution for your workspace login. If SSO is enabled, please activate the new service by facilitating self-service before May 2026. A release announcement in your workspace and an update on the roadmap item will inform you when the service is available. To get prepared, you can read about the migration to the self-service SSO configuration already in our user documentation.

Recent feature releases

Empower AI governance with the AI Agent Hub

A unique set of capabilities helps optimize the adoption of AI agents with streamlined insights and governance across your organization. As an automated foundation, it enables you to build your agentic governance and manage the full lifecycle of AI agents, whether they are pre-built (e.g., by SAP) or custom-built on agentic platforms such as Microsoft or Google. This is what you can leverage:

1. Discovery of AI agents: Like other discoveries, visibility is created through results in an inbox that can be imported to your inventory as a new "AI Agent" subtype of the application fact sheet. All types of agents can be discovered, including those that are integral to an application, standalone, or workflow-orchestrating agents. The discovery only requires an admin to activate the optional "AI Agent Hub" feature in the admin area and configure discovery integrations. In the following months, we plan to discover MCP servers and add discovery sources for additional major vendors.

2. Surrounding features: Control over your AI technology landscape is realized with specific reports, an AI agent dashboard, and dedicated calculations fueling visualizations in reports. All these are deployed together with the discovery.

3. Meta model extension: Even without leveraging the AI agent hub for automatically discovering agents, you can benefit from the optional "AI Agent" feature. A meta model extension accompanying this feature not only adds the AI agent fact sheet subtype with several attributes for analysis and visualizations, as well as an "MCP Server" subtype of interfaces for you to document AI agents' significant connectivity capabilities. As the AI agent subtype is the first one for applications, we also add a business application subtype to differentiate and filter on your already documented applications in the inventory.

4. SAP suggested solutions: There's another benefit for you, if you're an SAP customer interested in not only understanding your agents in use, but also which of the rapidly growing number of SAP AI agents are available to support your business capabilities. In that case, activate the "SAP Suggestions in Your Landscape" in the admin area's optional features and toggle "Enable SAP suggestions" in the individual report settings to explore suggested applications and AI agents directly in the report's side panel. You can go ahead and review these suggestions and use them as a fact sheet template in your inventory.

Together, these capabilities unlock operational and financial value by optimizing agent impact and streamlining governance. They are available in all workspaces without an additional commercial product, and the "AI Agent" subtype counts towards the application-based pricing in a ratio of five to one. This means that five created AI agent fact sheets count towards your existing application quota, like one single application.

Connect AI agents with enterprise architecture data via the MCP server

Establish a secure gateway for AI agents to your workspace and inventory data via the new Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. With the MCP server, you get a unified, reliable, and cost-efficient way to connect AI agents to your enterprise architecture data, APIs, and features available in SAP LeanIX, accelerating successful agentic applications for your business.

You can chat with MCP client compliant agents in natural language to retrieve fact sheet data, find reports and diagrams, manage surveys, and create architecture decisions. The range of available tool sets will be expanded further in the coming months.

Enjoy streamlined usage of relations in diagrams

In a comprehensive update, we've enhanced how dependencies and drill‑downs of relations are labeled, expanded, and visualized while aligning how you can interact with them in free draw and dataflow diagrams so that you can work with diagrams more efficiently and consistently. This is what has changed:

1. Expand relations from shape arrows: Hover or click the arrows next to a shape to pick and insert dependencies, even with filters. Before, this menu was only utilized for collapsed relations on application fact sheets. Relations inserted via the arrows keep their directional placement when being replaced; those added from the context menu still occupy the first free space (usually bottom left).

2. Filtered/detached indicators: Visual badges show whether a drill‑down is filtered or detached and whether dependencies are filtered. Click a drill‑down badge to open the filter modal. Existing interface‑expansion badges on data flow diagrams moved to the center of shapes to avoid overlap with the new indicators.

3. Relation labels on connectors: The new "Relation" option in the "Labels" menu allows you to show and hide the name of the related fact sheet type on all relations simultaneously.

4. Solid style of relations: Connectors representing relations are now rendered as solid lines with directional arrows and no longer dotted lines.

5. Automatic updates to relations: Like drill-downs, the dependencies now show updates from the inventory. You can still manually delete a dependency without changing inventory content, but it will appear missing in the updates. Consider using filters if you want to focus on a subset of fact sheets.

6. Label parity: Freedraw now supports multiple labels for collapsed interfaces and applies label changes to all shapes on the diagram, not only new shapes (same behavior as dataflow).

Enrich architecture decisions with diagrams

Diagrams can be of tremendous support for visualizing dependencies and the impact of an architectural decision. In workspaces with LeanIX Architecture and Road Map Planning, you can leverage them by adding any diagram to an architecture decision's text component from the editor's menu. Integrate multiple diagrams to provide even more context or compare stages and scenarios. For each diagram, you can choose its layout style – wide, tall, or compact view. Clicking the diagram title opens the full diagram in a new browser tab for detailed review.

Synchronize process variants with SAP Signavio

We’re introducing the modeling and sync of process variants for the Signavio integration to reduce the number of fact sheets and simplify data analysis.

After it's been enabled by an admin in the integration's configuration via the "Process Variants" toggle, the next sync run aggregates processes and all their variants into a single business context fact sheet in your workspace and uses constraining relations to show which applications are used by which organizational units. Variant dimensions in SAP Signavio are automatically synchronized to create the corresponding constraining relations in LeanIX, enabling analysis of redundant or overlapping applications across variants and organizational boundaries.

To use this capability, map organizations and applications in your integration configuration to the corresponding dictionary categories in SAP Signavio and ensure that process variants in SAP Signavio use organizations as a dimension. Details in the user documentation will help you set up the mapping.

Although matrix reports using organization and business context fact sheets as the two dimensions are well-equipped to show which applications support a specific process across your enterprise, the report doesn't yet support many-to-many process hierarchies with constraining relations, which limits the visibility of variant-specific application relationships in report views. We aim to improve this in the coming months.

Features in progress

Gain cost transparency across your application portfolio

Initially planned for a release in July, we're adding structured application TCO tracking that covers licensing, support, and maintenance costs to your workspace in the first week of November. It'll let you view cost breakdowns by organization or business capability, and monitor TCO evolution directly in the executive dashboard.

We're using the additional time to ensure delivery of a complete set of features, including writing on fields on relations. This allows us to provide the allocation of costs as well, as this is a key aspect of an application's TCO. The following will become available:

• A meta model extension for the application fact sheet to capture licensing, maintenance, and support costs in a consistent and structured way.

• Automatic aggregation of the above inputs into an application's TCO using preconfigured calculations that can be adapted to reflect your organization's cost model.

• Enhanced landscape report settings to allocate selected costs by clusters (e.g., per business capability or organizational unit), helping identify high-cost areas.

• Cost evolution KPIs in the architecture executive dashboard to give IT and business leaders a real-time view of total IT spending, savings progress, and investment alignment across the portfolio.

Together, these capabilities provide the visibility and control needed to connect architecture decisions with financial outcomes, empowering teams to reduce costs and accelerate innovation and transformation.

Keep your tech categories in sync with the latest TBM Taxonomy

On November 17, we'll update the reference catalog content for tech categories to the latest version 5.0.1 of the TBM Taxonomy. The changes from the previous major version 4 are minor and focused on specific content areas, such as the "Decision Intelligence & Automation" category on level 3, dissolving into the new "Artificial Intelligence" category on level 1.

Although the catalog content will then be up to date for new imports, we won't change related fact sheets in your workspace fully automatically. To keep your fact sheets in sync with the catalog and the latest TBM Taxonomy, we ask you to take the preparatory steps of renaming a few categories and then initiating the creation and linking of new tech categories. The detailed steps are described in the user documentation. It's best to do this shortly before or after the release, but it's not required. You can apply the changes at any time later to establish the sync again.

If you choose not to act, your tech category fact sheets will remain in the current state of the TBM Taxonomy version 4.

Accelerate transformation planning and execution with the redesigned transformation explorer

In the first weeks of November, a redesigned transformation explorer that streamlines transformation planning and execution will be available in workspaces with SAP LeanIX Architecture and Road Map Planning. In addition to the recently introduced "Inventory Tools" menu, it will be accessible centrally from the “More” menu in the main navigation, with the intention of becoming the single future access point.

Based on your feedback, the new experience introduces richer capabilities and a usability-improving look and feel, which include:

• Smarter filtering and sorting: Find what you need by filtering on applications, fact sheet names, or transformation types, and with a more prominent transformation type filter. Sort the resulting transformations by completion date to keep track of progress.

• Deeper insights: See application names, user groups, and business capabilities directly to support error analysis and quality assurance, and access more details tailored to each transformation type. Transformation statuses will appear in text, not icons, for better clarity.

• Multi-editing and bulk execution: Manage several transformations inline, using familiar inventory-style editing, and execute multiple transformations simultaneously from a bulk action menu.

The renewed transformation explorer aims to save you time, reduce manual work, and give you complete control over your transformations. Be prepared that it will replace the current transformation explorer.

Events

Review sessions from the SAP Transformation Excellence Summits

Whether your organization is a mid-sized company or a global enterprise, the summits offered inspiring visions of what’s possible, along with practical insight you can apply back in the office.

If you are based in the Americas and couldn't come to Austin in September, or if you want to discover again how leading organizations are giving their businesses a common language and single source of truth with SAP LeanIX solutions, the sessions from the Austin event are now available to watch on demand.

If you are in and around Europe and not with us in The Hague this week, you can expect the recordings from inspiring keynotes and insightful breakout sessions from FrieslandCampina, Hapag-Lloyd, Schaeffler, SMA, TUI, Volkswagen, and others to become available on our event website in the following days.

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