Managed SAP consulting services

Increase productivity, reduce cost and accelerate business outcomes

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Outcome‑driven managed services for SAP, powered by digital and human intelligence

IBM SAP Managed services deliver value across every stage of the SAP modernization journey—from run and optimize to innovate and evolve. Our approach is built on strong pillars aligned with IBM and SAP’s shared vision: continuous innovation, scalable operations, intuitive user experiences and business outcomes. 

By combining AI, automation and analytics with expert human engineering, IBM enables a modern operating model, improved service quality and drives measurable business outcomes. This integrated digital and human approach helps clients accelerate both business and IT evolution, unlocking new efficiencies while creating a foundation for long-term growth.

IBM Consulting Application Management Suite for SAP IBM has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud ERP Services

Capabilities

AI‑led SAP operations

AI, automation and agentic AI reduce manual effort, speed resolution and ensure stable, high-performance SAP operations across hybrid environments.

XLA driven service experience

Experience level agreements (XLAs) focus on business and user outcomes—improving productivity, predictability and overall service effectiveness.

Proactive security, by design

AI-driven monitoring and automated remediation proactively manage risk, strengthen compliance and minimize business disruption.

Continuous optimization at scale

Agentic AI enables access to continuous insights and automation for optimizing costs, enhancing user experience and sustainable productivity gains across IT and business operations.

Insights

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The rise of governed autonomy: Trusted human and AI operations for managing SAP environments
Governed autonomy blends human oversight and AI agents to transform SAP operations with resilience, speed and trusted outcomes.
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Driving intelligent SAP transformation with ICAMS
Driving intelligent SAP transformation with ICAMS
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A clear path to value: Overcome challenges on your FinOps journey
Discover how FinOps helps enterprises optimize cloud spending, improve visibility, align IT with business goals and accelerate innovation.
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ManagePlus—your journey before, with and beyond RISE with SAP
Explore how IBM ManagePlus helps enterprises prepare for, adopt and extend RISE with SAP through AI-driven automation, hybrid cloud and unified SAP operations.

Meet our experts

Joseph Msays
VP and Global Managing Partner for Enterprise Application Management Services
Doug Whiting
Global lead for SAP Managed Services
Dharma Atluri
IBM Distinguished Engineer, and CTO for SAP Manage services
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