# Reports
Reports are a powerful tool for visualizing data, generating insights, and making informed decisions. Reports provide a comprehensive view of an organization's architectural landscape, enabling users to analyze and present critical information, such as application portfolios, technology stacks, dependencies, and more. Reports in SAP LeanIX play a pivotal role in enhancing transparency, communication, and strategic decision-making.
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The SAP LeanIX meta model captures information about an organization's applications, technology components, and business capabilities, among other things. Reports leverage this data to create insights to help organizations optimize their IT landscape and align it with their business goals.
To generate reports, you can leverage SAP LeanIX's reporting functionality. Reports can be created from scratch or by customizing one of the pre-built templates provided. Reports offer a range of chart and graph types, allowing you to choose the best visualization for their data. You can also filter data based on specific criteria, allowing you to create reports tailored to your needs.
In reports, you can group elements into clusters, which enables you to identify areas that require attention and optimize your IT investments. SAP LeanIX provides excellent out-of-the-box report types, such as Landscape Report, Matrix Report, Portfolio Report, Circle Map, Cost Reports, Roadmap Report, and World Map.
Additionally, you can include reports in presentations to share valuable insights with stakeholders. For more information, see [Presentations](https://help.sap.com/docs/leanix/ea/presentations?locale=en-US&state=PRODUCTION&version=CLOUD "Use presentations to share enterprise architecture insights from reports and diagrams with your organization, without the need to export data to external presentation tools.").
This documentation will cover the following:
  1. How to use Reports in SAP LeanIX
  2. Details on out-of-the-box Reports in SAP LeanIX
  3. Examples of Custom Reports from the [SAP LeanIX Store![Information published on non-SAP site](https://help.sap.com/doc/72d375467c1e4dcb872dfa2998b6328d/CLOUD/en-US/themes/sap-light/img/3rd_link.png)](https://help.sap.com/docs/link-disclaimer?site=https%3A%2F%2Fstore.leanix.net%2Fbrowse "https://store.leanix.net/browse")


SAP LeanIX also provides a place to browse and purchase add-ons, extensions, and reports for SAP LeanIX users. Trusted partners are building custom reports that can help you to enhance your SAP LeanIX experience. You can find these reports to download from the [SAP LeanIX Store![Information published on non-SAP site](https://help.sap.com/doc/72d375467c1e4dcb872dfa2998b6328d/CLOUD/en-US/themes/sap-light/img/3rd_link.png)](https://help.sap.com/docs/link-disclaimer?site=https%3A%2F%2Fstore.leanix.net%2Fbrowse "https://store.leanix.net/browse").
