##  Description
An application is a software tool designed to provide capabilities that help business users achieve specific goals or tasks within their work processes. These capabilities can range widely, such as accounting, customer relationship management, supply chain management, etc.
Applications generate and consume data and depend on various IT components to operate. SAP LeanIX's meta model adopts an application-centric approach, connecting both business and IT aspects. This helps enterprise architects align the organization's business and IT strategies by addressing key aspects such as:
  * Business support - whether the application meets functional and technical needs
  * Rationalization - if cost savings can be achieved by reducing the number of applications
  * Compliance - whether the application adheres to regulations such as GDPR and the AI Act


Examples of applications: Workday, Confluence, Zoom, AutoCAD, SAP LeanIX, SAP S/4HANA, Salesforce.
![Overview of All Relations to and from Application](https://help.sap.com/doc/72d375467c1e4dcb872dfa2998b6328d/CLOUD/en-US/loio27458f707a4410149396d0899d6d0a8b_LowRes.png)
Overview of All Relations to and from Application
