LeanIX and SAP: An Enduring Symbiotic Saga

Oh, joy! Another tedious and predictably dull partnership in the tech world. LeanIX, the ‘exceptional’ software as a service (SaaS) provider, has been wrapping its tentacles around SAP for quite a while now. What they essentially do is provide bloody large and exceedingly complicated enterprises with what they call, a ‘common language’ and a single (and supposedly infallible) source of truth for their whole IT landscape. Can you smell the pretentious jargon already?

The Unexciting Implications of This ‘Revolutionary’ Technology

So what’s the big deal about these two overhyped entities sharing a prolonged, warm hug? Well, for the poor souls who are tasked with managing these massive IT landscapes, it supposedly means fewer headaches (unless, of course, you’re unfortunate enough to get one from the overuse of jargon-riddled buzzword bingo). By stitching together an insipid quilt of IT components that never seem to speak the same language, LeanIX and SAP help these companies reduce redundancies (yawn) and streamline their processes (double yawn) while enabling somewhat more informed decision-making.

Hot Take for This Lukewarm Partnership

Wake me up when there’s some actual innovation happening. Two companies buddying up to sell the same old, exhaustively confusing tech jargon isn’t anything to get excited about. Oh, but I’m forgetting, it’s for the ‘betterment of enterprises’, right? Sure. Keep pounding that corporate mantra into your employees’ heads. Maybe one day, we’ll believe it. But for now, spare me the technobabble and overblown buzzwords. It’s as if they’re trying to impress us with their vocabulary rather than their technology. Until then, let’s all raise a glass to another round of technological tedium.

Original article:https://venturebeat.com/programming-development/sap-acquires-leanix-to-focus-on-ai-assisted-it-modernization/