Forward Deployed · SAP
Most SAP programmes stall in the build: extensions that fight the clean core, integrations that break under load, cutovers that keep slipping. Altivate’s SAP Forward Deployed Engineers are senior technical engineers — ABAP and RAP, SAP BTP, SAP Integration Suite, Fiori and Basis — who embed inside your team and ship working software on a fixed cadence. Where our consultants shape what the system should do, these engineers make it do it — and your people learn to run it as they go.
What SAP FDEs build
Hands-on-keyboard SAP engineering, delivered from inside your team.
Custom development on ABAP Cloud and the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model — released APIs and extension points instead of core modifications, so every build survives the next upgrade.
Side-by-side applications and services on SAP BTP that keep bespoke logic out of the core, with the transport, versioning and lifecycle discipline to run them for years.
Interfaces built on SAP Integration Suite (Cloud Integration) and APIs — designed for error handling, monitored end to end, and documented so they are never a mystery again.
SAP Fiori and SAPUI5 applications your users actually adopt — from launchpad rationalisation to custom apps that make the daily transaction faster than the workaround.
The technical side of the move to SAP S/4HANA: system conversion, custom-code remediation, data migration, mock cutovers and the go-live weekend itself — planned, rehearsed, landed.
Administration, patching, performance tuning and proactive monitoring across the landscape — the unglamorous engineering that keeps response times flat and incidents rare.
Why forward-deployed engineering
The same embedded model as our Forward Deployed Consultants — applied to the technical build.
Engineers sit in your ceremonies and your backlog, demoing working increments on your systems every sprint — not status slides about an offshore queue.
The people who scope the work are the people who write the code. No handover to a bench, no context lost between the estimate and the build.
Accountable for software running in production — transports through, interfaces stable, cutover landed — inside your security model and within Altivate’s ISO/IEC 27001-certified delivery environment.
Pairing, code reviews and documentation are deliverables in their own right. The pod’s goal is an estate your own engineers can extend and operate without us.
How an engagement runs
From first standup to handover — a fixed, visible cadence.
Engineers join your standups, get system access and walk the estate — code base, transports, integrations, open backlog.
Custom-code, integration and performance review; agree the cadence, the definition of done and the first slice of scope.
Clean-core increments shipped and demoed on your systems every sprint — extensions, integrations, Fiori apps, conversion workstreams.
Testing, performance tuning, monitoring and cutover rehearsal until the release is live and stable — not just code-complete.
Pairing, code reviews and documentation hand the estate to your team — with Applications Managed Services as continuity if you want it.
Where an SAP FDE pod lands first
The engagements where embedded engineers change the trajectory fastest.
Proven on real SAP engineering
Altivate engineers delivered the SAP S/4HANA Cloud upgrade and migration for Farabi Petrochemicals — an on-premise HANA estate moved in a roughly five-month project, with historical attachments migrated to SAP BTP Document Management Service and a 65% database size optimization: a smaller database footprint carried into the new landscape. As an SAP Gold Partner with a certified Partner Center of Expertise, this is the calibre of engineering every FDE pod draws on.
Put SAP engineers inside your team
Tell us where the build is stuck. We’ll scope an embedded SAP FDE pod and a first cadence.
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