NOWY — SAP & AI advisory — Milano

The new way to know why.

About NOWY

NOWY is a boutique SAP & AI consultancy working with companies across Switzerland, from Zürich to Lugano, out of Milano. A solid SAP core, AI agents inside the processes, and senior people from the first meeting to go-live.

SAP programs led across the team's careers
120+
Avg. SAP tenure
14yrs
AI releases delivered by the team
38+
Core industries
3

Figures refer to the team's combined experience, including before NOWY was founded in 2024.

01 — Services

Three practices. One architecture.

  • End-to-end SAP advisory and delivery, from design to go-live: S/4HANA conversions, Business Partner harmonisation and packaged SAP Grow rollouts, built to last.

    • S/4HANA conversion (brownfield & greenfield)
    • Business Partner conversion & data harmonisation
    • SAP Grow packaged adoption
    • HR portal integration (SuccessFactors & third-party)
    • Clean Core extensibility & BTP architecture
  • Generative AI inside the ERP: a control layer over the processes that already exist. Agents and chatbots built on Joule, Claude and custom RAG pipelines, with a person approving every write.

    • Joule & SAP AI Foundation deployments
    • RAG, vector search & knowledge graphs
    • Custom LLM applications on BTP
    • Agentic process automation
    • Employee & customer chatbots
    • MCP connectors for SAP & Microsoft 365
  • From first idea to industrial scale: operating models, capability blueprints and change management. Answers for those who decide, clarity for those who build.

    • Technology roadmap & investment cases
    • AI Center of Excellence design
    • Operating model & talent strategy
    • Board-level program assurance
  • Data migration and historical data takeover, written and checked by AI agents. Source systems read, mapped, cleansed and loaded into S/4HANA, with automatic reconciliation and team sign-off on every batch.

    • Master data: customers, suppliers, Business Partner, materials, assets
    • Open items, balances and transaction history
    • Field mapping, deduplication and validation rules
    • Migration Cockpit templates, APIs and load files generated by the agent
    • Automated reconciliation reports before go-live
  • S/4HANA Conversion
  • AI Data Migration
  • Business Partner
  • SAP Grow
  • HR Portal Integration
  • SuccessFactors
  • SAP BTP
  • Joule
  • Datasphere
  • HANA Cloud
  • Clean Core
  • CAP Framework
  • ABAP Cloud
  • Build Process Automation
  • Signavio
  • Ariba
  • RAG Pipelines
  • Vector Search
  • Anthropic Claude
  • Azure OpenAI
  • Process Mining
  • Fiori
  • Integration Suite
02 — Capabilities

Where strategy meets the stack.

Scope, engagement size and typical duration of each capability.

Capability Engagement size
Typical duration
SAP core
S/4HANA Conversion

Brownfield & greenfield, target architecture, deployment model

Enterprise (5 of 5)
12 – 36 months
Business Partner Conversion

Customer/Vendor → BP harmonisation, data quality, cutover

Focused (2 of 5)
3 – 9 months
SAP Grow Packaging

Pre-configured S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, fast-track adoption

Focused (2 of 5)
4 – 9 months
HR Portal Integration

SuccessFactors, third-party portals, single sign-on, employee experience

Programme (3 of 5)
3 – 9 months
Clean Core & BTP

Extensibility framework, side-by-side BTP, custom ABAP retirement

Programme (4 of 5)
6 – 18 months
AI & advisory
Joule & Generative Apps

Embedded AI, RAG, agentic workflows, custom LLM stacks on BTP

Programme (3 of 5)
3 – 12 months
Innovation Operating Model

AI CoE, talent strategy, governance, vendor architecture

Programme (3 of 5)
2 – 6 months
Engagement size — typical project scale, by capability
  • Focused · 1–2
  • Programme · 3–4
  • Enterprise · 5
03 — Selected work

Programs that changed operating reality.

  1. 01Energy

    S/4HANA conversion for a major European energy utility.

    Brownfield conversion across 18 sites, Business Partner harmonisation, finance backbone modernisation. Architecture, BP cutover and the first two rollout waves led by the NOWY team.

    Sites converted
    18
    • S/4HANA
    • Business Partner
    • Finance
    Milano · 2024 — 26
    S/4HANA conversion · 18 sites

    −42%Close cycle time

  2. 02Professional Services

    SuccessFactors & HR portal integration for a global professional services firm.

    SuccessFactors rollout, integration with two third-party HR portals, single sign-on across 14,000 employees. Joule-assisted self-service for tickets and onboarding.

    Employees served
    14K
    • SuccessFactors
    • SSO
    • Joule
    Milano · 2025 — 26
    HR portal · 14K employees

    −68%Ticket resolution

  3. 03Manufacturing

    SAP Grow rollout and AI-driven shopfloor intelligence for an Italian manufacturer.

    Packaged S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition across 11 plants, Joule and custom RAG agents wired into Datasphere — exceptions now resolved in minutes.

    Plants connected
    11
    • SAP Grow
    • RAG agents
    • Datasphere
    Treviso · 2024 — 25
    SAP Grow · 11 plants

    +34%Throughput

04 — Approach

From discovery to lasting adoption.

  1. Listen

    Discovery, interviews, system landscape analysis. Ambition and constraints mapped before drawing a single line.

  2. Frame

    Architecture, business case, sequencing. A defensible plan that survives the boardroom and the engineering review.

  3. Build

    Implementation, integration, AI deployment. Led by senior practitioners.

  4. Sustain

    Adoption, governance, continuous evolution. A system that keeps delivering over time.

05 — Philosophy

Enterprise complexity decoded through SAP excellence and generative intelligence. Strategy is our compass; technology is our craft.
Founded
Milano · 2024
Operating
Switzerland · Europe · MENA · APAC
Discipline
SAP · AI · Strategy
Posture
Senior, embedded, accountable
  • Principle / 01

    Strategy is the compass. Technology is the craft.

  • Principle / 02

    Senior people, on the work. Always.

  • Principle / 03

    Clean core, by default. Custom only by design.

  • Principle / 04

    AI inside the workflow, from day one.

06 — Contact

Thirty minutes on your why.

One meeting to find where SAP and AI deliver the most in your processes.

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