Some programmes don’t need another vendor at arm’s length — they need senior people in the room.
Altivate’s Forward Deployed teams embed inside yours: they join your standups, work your backlog, and ship on your own systems on a fixed cadence — then hand the capability back to your people. There are three ways to embed, and most estates use them in sequence: consultants to decide what SAP should do, engineers to build it clean-core, and AI engineers to make it intelligent on your own data.
Capability that stays with your team — not a dependency on ours.
One model, three ways to embed
Enter at any point — most estates run them in sequence.
Decide what SAP should do
SAP FDC — Forward Deployed Consultants. Senior SAP functional consultants — Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, Sales, HR — embedded to design the process, make the configuration calls, and prove the value before you commit. They shape the system; your team owns the decisions. Explore SAP FDC →
Build it, clean-core
SAP FDE — Forward Deployed Engineers. Senior SAP technical engineers — ABAP and RAP, SAP BTP, Integration Suite, Fiori, Basis — who write the code, land the S/4HANA cutover, and ship working increments every sprint. Clean-core builds that survive the next upgrade. Explore SAP FDE →
Make it intelligent
AI FDE — Forward Deployed AI Engineers. AI and ML engineers who build agents, models and retrieval on your SAP and business data — evaluated on real outcomes, run inside your governance. Where SAP is table stakes, this is the differentiator. Explore AI FDE →
Why forward-deployed beats arm’s-length delivery
The same embedded discipline across all three teams.
In your standup, not a ticket queue
Our people sit in your ceremonies and your backlog, demoing working increments on your systems every sprint — not status slides about an offshore queue.
Seniors, hands on keyboard
The people who scope the work are the people who do it. No handover to a bench, no context lost between the estimate and the delivery.
Accountable for the outcome
Answerable for value in production — decisions made, software live, models acting — inside your security model and Altivate’s ISO/IEC 27001-certified delivery environment.
Your team levels up
Pairing, reviews and documentation are deliverables in their own right. The goal is an estate your own people can run and extend without us.
Where a Forward Deployed team earns its keep
The signals that arm’s-length delivery has run out of road.
The calibre behind every team
The Forward Deployed model is the same one Altivate uses to land SAP transformations, technical migrations and AI builds for customers across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, the wider GCC and India — as an SAP Gold Partner with a certified Partner Center of Expertise, delivering inside an ISO/IEC 27001-certified environment. The differentiator isn’t a bench of CVs; it’s senior people accountable for what runs in your production.
Not sure which team you need? Tell us where the programme is stuck and we’ll tell you honestly whether a consultant, an engineer, or an AI team moves it — or that you don’t need us at all.
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