Reference Catalog
The reference catalog provides reference data for business capabilities, applications, IT components, and tech categories, which enables you to set up and maintain your inventory more efficiently.
Overview
The reference catalog offers reference data and best-practice recommendations for business capabilities, applications, IT components, and tech categories. Implementing reference data and synchronizing information from the catalog streamlines the setup and maintenance of your inventory. Automatic synchronization ensures your data remains current and consistent while optimizing workflows by reducing manual updates.
The catalog’s content is regularly updated to maintain data quality and relevance.
Benefits
By using the reference catalog, you get the following benefits:
- Data quality: The catalog enhances data quality by providing a standardized framework for IT and business architecture data across your organization. It also enriches and completes your data, enhancing overall accuracy and facilitating more informed decision-making.
- Best practices: The catalog includes best-practice templates and structures for various industries, enabling you to adopt proven strategies and methodologies.
- Efficiency: Using the catalog can significantly speed up the process of setting up and maintaining your IT and business landscapes in SAP LeanIX, saving time and resources.
- Customization: Despite its standardized structure, the catalog is designed for easy customization, which enables you to adjust the provided information to suit your organization’s needs.
Available Data
The following table provides an overview of data available in the reference catalog and the benefits that you can get by using it. Using base data from the catalog enables you to standardize your portfolio and increase data quality. In addition, by setting fact sheet relations, you can complete your portfolio following modeling best practices.
| Type | Base Data | Relations | Detailed Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business capability | The catalog offers industry-specific, best-practice business capabilities. You can import these into your workspace and customize them to suit your organization’s needs. | Business capabilities and SAP applications share a many-to-many relation, meaning that each business capability can be linked to multiple SAP applications, and each SAP application can be associated with multiple business capabilities. Applications that best support specific business capabilities are displayed as suggested SAP solutions, which is an explicit relation. Suggested SAP solutions is an optional feature that you can disable if needed. | Business Capabilities in the Reference Catalog |
| Application | The catalog provides reference data for applications, enabling you to enhance fact sheet standardization and increase data quality. This helps users complete fact sheet information with less effort. | When linking applications to catalog items, you can set relations to IT components (as well as relations to providers and tech categories for IT components), which enables you to enrich and automatically complete your portfolio. | Applications in the Reference Catalog |
| IT component | The catalog provides reference data for IT components, allowing you to enhance fact sheet standardization and improve data quality. This helps users complete fact sheet information with less effort. Additionally, the catalog offers vendor lifecycle information, enabling you to manage technology obsolescence risks effectively. | When linking IT components to catalog items, you can set relations to providers and tech categories, which enables you to enrich and automatically complete your portfolio. | IT Components in the Reference Catalog |
| Tech category | The catalog offers best-practice TBM taxonomies for tech categories. You can import these into your workspace and customize them to suit your company’s categorization needs. | There are no direct relations from tech categories in the catalog. Only relations to tech categories are available. | Tech Categories in the Reference Catalog |
Fact Sheet Attributes
The table below lists the fact sheet attributes provided by the reference catalog.
- Base attributes are available to all customers using SAP LeanIX Application Portfolio Management, our base product.
- Additional attributes related to technology risk and compliance are available only to customers using SAP LeanIX Technology Risk and Compliance. To learn more about this product, see SAP LeanIX Technology Risk and Compliance.
| Fact Sheet Type | Base Attributes | Additional Attributes Available with the SAP LeanIX Technology Risk and Compliance Product |
|---|---|---|
| Business capability | - Name and Description - Relevance for Industries - Enterprise Domain - SAP Reference ID - SAP application recommendations - Relations to other catalog items | |
| Application | - Name and Description - Product Category - Hosting options - Single sign-on (SSO) information - Relations to other catalog items - As of Date - External ID | Security and policy links |
| IT component | - Name and Description - IT Component Subtype - Release - Component Website - Relations to other catalog items - As of Date - External ID | Lifecycle information (phases, URLs, support policies, and more) |
| Tech category | Name and Description | |
| Provider (if linked to applications or IT components) | Name |
Updated 17 days ago