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Modeling (SAP) BW in LeanIX

  • July 23, 2026
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Hello LeanIX Community,

We're currently designing our LeanIX model for an SAP BW landscape and would love to hear how others have approached this.

Our LeanIX meta model distinguishes between two Application subtypes:

  • Business Applications

  • Platform Applications

Business Applications run on Platform Applications.

Our current thinking is to model SAP BW as a Platform Application, while the user-facing BI/reporting solutions would be modeled as Business Applications running on top of SAP BW.

However, we're unsure about the right level of abstraction and how to represent the different SAP BW artifacts.

Some of the elements we're considering are:

  • SAP BW

  • InfoAreas

  • InfoProviders (e.g., ADSOs, CompositeProviders)

  • InfoObjects

  • BW Queries

  • Workbooks / Dashboards

  • BI frontends such as SAP Analysis for Office, SAP Analytics Cloud, or SAP BusinessObjects

  • Underlying technologies such as SAP HANA or NetWeaver

Our goal is to create a model that supports transparency, ownership, and impact analysis while remaining practical to maintain.

We're particularly interested in your experience with the following questions:

  1. How would you model SAP BW in LeanIX?

  2. Which BW artifacts (e.g., InfoAreas, Queries) would you model in LeanIX, and which would you intentionally leave out?

  3. How would you model BW artifacts in LeanIX?

If you've modeled SAP BW or BW/4HANA in LeanIX, we'd really appreciate hearing about your approach, lessons learned, and any best practices you've established.

Thanks in advance for your insights!

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