Modernize SAP without growing the run cost.
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The 6 levers of a Net-Zero OPEX SAP program.
Data archiving & low-storage strategy
Infrastructure right-sizing
SAP licensing optimization
Clean core architecture
Boomi integration simplification
Accelerators & pre-built frameworks
Executive podcast series
The path from Phase-0 to Net-Zero OPEX.
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Series 01 — Phase 0, AMS & Net-Zero OPEX
Series 02 — Phase 0 to AMS Evolution
Series 03 — AMS & Cost Optimization
Questions we get about Phase-0
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.
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.
Four to six weeks, depending on landscape complexity and stakeholder availability. We do not stretch the timeline to expand the engagement.
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.
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.
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.
The six cost levers in motion
Six OPEX levers. One SAP core. Cost-neutral modernization.
Each lever pulls run-cost out of a different SAP layer — storage, infrastructure, licensing, code, integration, delivery accelerators. Combined, they fund the transformation.
Modernization funded by run-cost reduction. Six streams. One SAP core.
The savings pay for the transformation.
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