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Forward Deployed Engineers

AI that reaches production, built inside your business

Industry studies put the share of enterprise AI pilots that never reach production — or never deliver measurable return — as high as 80–95%; the pilot trap is now the defining failure mode of enterprise AI. Altivate’s Forward Deployed Engineers exist to break it: AI engineers embedded with your team, building agentic and generative AI on your real enterprise data — most often SAP data — until it is live, governed and measurably working.

Discovery sprinta problem worthsolvingEmbedded buildAI engineers, inyour teamProduction activationlive systems,not a demoMeasured outcomevalue youcan seeGrounded on your governed SAP + enterprise dataBigQuery · Bedrock · SAP Business AI / Joule · RAG · agentsFrom pilot to production — responsible-AI outcomes shipped with your team, not left on a slide
Altivate embeds AI engineers to take an idea from a discovery sprint to a production-grade, governed outcome on your real enterprise data — closing the gap that strands most pilots.

From stalled pilot to production system

A four-stage engagement designed around one question: did it ship, and did it move the number?

Start with a discovery sprint

A short, sharply scoped sprint that finds where AI on your data creates measurable value — and proves feasibility against your real systems, not a synthetic demo.

Build inside your team

Our engineers embed with your people and build against live data, your security model and your processes — transferring skills as they go.

Activate into production

We carry the build through integration, governance and change management until it is running in production for real users.

Measure what shipped

Every engagement is anchored to outcome metrics agreed with your leadership up front — adoption, cycle time, cost, revenue — and reported honestly.

What we ship

SAP Business AI and Joule
RAG and knowledge assistants
Agentic process automation
Amazon Bedrock
Gemini on Google Cloud
Claude-based agents
Document intelligence
Analytics and forecasting copilots

Why our AI work sticks

Grounded in governed data

We build on governed enterprise data — lineage, access control, quality checks — because ungrounded AI is a demo, not a system.

SAP-native depth and context

As an SAP Gold Partner with a certified Partner Center of Expertise, we know the data models and processes inside your SAP estate — where most enterprise AI value actually hides.

Responsible AI, certified environment

Responsible-AI practices — human oversight, evaluation and monitoring — delivered within Altivate’s ISO/IEC 27001-certified environment.

The right frontier models

A member of the Claude / Anthropic Partner Network and a partner of AWS and Google Cloud, we pick the model that fits your workload — not the only one we know.

Why pilots stall — and what embedding changes

Pilots stall in the gap between the model and the business: data that was never production-grade, owners who were never named, integrations that were never scoped and users who were never involved. Embedding closes that gap — which is why forward-deployed delivery is emerging as one of the defining enterprise delivery models of 2026, with Accenture running a named forward-deployed engineering programme with SAP and AWS formalising a partner-led programme for its consulting partners. Altivate brings that model to MENA enterprises with engineers who speak both AI and SAP — so intelligence lands where your business actually runs.

Explore further

Explore our AI practice

The models, platforms and accelerators behind every forward-deployed engagement. Visit the AI hub →

AI and Data services

From data foundations to production AI — the full service line our engineers draw on. See AI and Data services →

Pair with embedded SAP consultants

For SAP-centric programmes, Forward Deployed Consultants keep the core clean while our engineers build the intelligence on top. Meet our Forward Deployed Consultants →

Ship AI that survives contact with production

Bring us the pilot that stalled — or the process you know AI should transform — and we will scope a discovery sprint against your real data, with the success metric agreed before we start.

Start with a discovery sprint →

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