Senior SAP expertise, working from inside your team
Most SAP programmes do not fail on technology — they fail on distance: rotating contractors, ticket queues and knowledge that leaves when the engagement ends. Altivate’s Forward Deployed Consultants are senior SAP experts who embed inside your organisation, share ownership of business outcomes with your team, and stay long enough for the expertise to stick.
What forward deployment means
A delivery model that replaces handovers and ticket queues with shared ownership.
Our consultants sit inside your team, your ceremonies and your backlog — accountable for business outcomes, not ticket throughput.
Every change is weighed against clean-core principles and upgrade cost, keeping your S/4HANA estate fast to upgrade and ready for SAP Business AI.
Pairing, documentation and structured enablement are deliverables in their own right — your team is stronger when we step back.
The same senior consultants stay with you across phases, preserving the context that resets with every vendor rotation.
Where embedded consultants change the outcome
Why forward deployment, why now
Forward-deployed, embedded delivery is emerging as one of the defining enterprise delivery models of 2026, and the market has moved decisively this way — Accenture now runs a named forward-deployed engineering programme with SAP, AWS has launched a partner-led Forward Deployed Engineering programme for its consulting partners, and Google Cloud and OpenAI have each stood up forward-deployed motions of their own. The reason is simple: distance kills delivery. With ECC mainstream maintenance ending in 2027, most SAP customers face their most consequential decisions in a decade — conversion paths, RISE commitments, clean-core rebuilds — at exactly the moment senior SAP talent is hardest to hire and retain. Embedding that talent inside your team is the most direct way to de-risk the road ahead.
Proven on real SAP programmes
Altivate delivered a full SAP S/4HANA rollout for DAL AG using the SAP Activate methodology — the kind of complex, multi-phase programme where embedded senior expertise makes the difference.
Where this fits in the Altivate stack
Forward deployment draws on Altivate’s full SAP practice — an SAP Gold Partner with a certified Partner Center of Expertise. Explore our SAP practice →
When the embedded phase ends, our Applications Managed Services carry the same standards into day-to-day operations. See Applications Managed Services →
Pair your consultants with Forward Deployed Engineers to ship AI on your SAP data — one embedded team, two disciplines. Meet our Forward Deployed Engineers →
Put senior SAP expertise inside your team
Tell us where your SAP programme feels exposed — a conversion, a stalled rollout, a talent gap — and we will scope an embedded engagement around the outcome you need.
