AI on SAP ECC · No Forced Upgrade

Stay on ECC. Add AI.

Download the AI-on-ECC Playbook — layer computer vision, RAG, agentic AI, and AIOps on top of your existing SAP estate. Modern outcomes without the forced-upgrade dependency.

AI overlay on ECC / B1

90-day value windows

Third-party support optional

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What's inside the playbook

The 6 AI capabilities you can add — without upgrading.

Modern AI outcomes on your existing SAP estate. Change the value, not the version.

Predictive maintenance

IoT sensor ML on top of your ECC. Machine fault detection. Proactive alerts cut unplanned downtime.

Document AI (RAG)

Retrieval-augmented chatbot over your enterprise docs. Knowledge workers answer 10× faster.

Computer vision

CCTV-based PPE / fire / gas / smoke detection. Real-time safety alerts.

Agentic AI for finance

90-day budget forecasting. Anomaly detection. Conversational queries on ECC data.

AIOps via Digitate ignio

Autonomous SAP operations. Ticket reduction. Fewer 2am calls.

Open analytics on Microsoft Fabric

Data-as-a-product layer on top of ECC. Real-time exec dashboards.

30–50%

SAP storage cost reduction via archiving

20–35%

Infrastructure savings via right-sizing

15–25%

SAP licensing optimization

40%+

Custom code reduction via clean core

FAQ

Questions we get about Phase-0

How is Phase-0 different from an SI's discovery workshop?

An SI's discovery is designed to mobilize a program. Phase-0 is designed to decide whether the program should mobilize at all — and on what terms. We are not the integrator. That independence is the point.

Who runs Phase-0?

WorldITCOE leads every Phase-0 engagement as the prime advisor. Regional advisory is led by Judith O'Callaghan (ANZ) and Sana Asher (NAM). Named advisors. One accountable thread.

How long does Phase-0 take?

Four to six weeks, depending on landscape complexity and stakeholder availability. We do not stretch the timeline to expand the engagement.

What happens if Phase-0 says "don't proceed"?

That is a successful outcome. The output is a defensible position — go, re-scope, or delay — backed by evidence the board will accept. We have no incentive to push you into a program that shouldn't run.

What does Phase-0 cost — and how do we justify it to the CFO?

Phase-0 is a fixed-scope, fixed-duration advisory engagement priced as a fraction of the program it shapes. The most common CFO question after Phase-0 is "why didn't we do this sooner?" — because the scope reductions and risk avoidance it surfaces typically pay for the engagement many times over.

Do you offer this outside SAP?

Phase-0 is SAP-focused by design. If you have adjacent enterprise systems (Boomi, Signavio, Salesforce, ServiceNow) in scope, we cover them where they touch SAP.