For more than a decade, SAP customers have been wrestling with a familiar challenge: how to move from legacy SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) environments to SAP S/4HANA without creating transformation programs that are prohibitively expensive, complex, or time-consuming.
Now, agentic AI could fundamentally change that equation, creating a different model for SAP transformation: one built around faster delivery, lower costs, and greater customer self-sufficiency.
That was the central argument put forward during a recent webinar examining what its participants described as “deshoring,” which uses AI agents to rethink work that organizations previously distributed between expensive onshore resources and lower-cost offshore teams.
For Stuart Browne, founder and CEO of Resulting IT, an independent SAP consultancy that spent the past seven years helping companies chart their journeys from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA, the opportunity starts with questioning assumptions the industry has accumulated over decades.
“The only way we deliver this in the future is by changing the way we’ve delivered it in the past,” he said. “So we’ve got to find new ways of accelerating the migration, and I think AI is probably the best bet for that.”
