AI-First Delivery with KTern.AI: Revolutionizing SAP Projects

The future of SAP project delivery is here, and it’s powered by AI. KTern.AI, the SAP Industry Cloud Platform, is at the forefront of transforming how businesses manage their SAP landscapes, leveraging a comprehensive AI-driven approach that automates and optimizes every phase of the SAP project lifecycle. From cloud transitions to custom code remediation, KTern.AI is designed to reduce manual effort, increase efficiency, and accelerate project timelines, enabling a seamless digital transformation.

This blog dives deep into KTern.AI's capabilities, focusing on how the platform integrates generative AI (Gen-AI) technologies, collaborates with industry leaders like AWS Bedrock and SAP, and co-innovates with the SAP COIL and Cloud ALM teams to deliver exceptional results.

AI-Driven SAP Delivery: The Future Is Now

In the fast-paced world of enterprise IT, businesses are moving to the cloud at an unprecedented rate. However, this transition often comes with a host of challenges—especially when it comes to managing custom code and legacy systems. This is where KTern.AI's "AI-First Delivery" approach comes into play.

KTern.AI employs artificial intelligence to automate the end-to-end delivery process, from project management to testing, code remediation, and post-implementation support. This allows businesses to:

• Reduce manual effort: KTern.AI automates routine tasks that would traditionally require human intervention, from monitoring system health to managing upgrades.
• Accelerate project timelines: AI-driven workflows enable faster decision-making and reduce project delays.
• Ensure code quality and clean core compliance: The platform automates the identification and remediation of custom code, ensuring smooth transitions to cloud environments like SAP’s RISE initiative.

KTern.AI’s AI-First Delivery Package

KTern.AI is a comprehensive platform that uses AI to manage the entire SAP project lifecycle. Below are some of the platform’s key capabilities, each powered by artificial intelligence:

Automated Assessment Capabilities:

• Automates the assessment of SAP landscapes, identifying key areas that require optimization or remediation.
• Uses AI to analyze custom code, system performance, and compliance, ensuring businesses are prepared for cloud transitions and upgrades.
• Provides detailed insights into system readiness and potential risks, helping businesses make informed decisions during their digital transformation journey.

Intelligent Project Management (PMO):

• Automate signoff workflows to streamline the project progress.
• Ensures projects are delivered on time with reduced manual effort by automating task creation.

Organizational Change Management (OCM):

• Leverages AI to assess the impact of changes on stakeholders, ensuring smooth transitions during digital transformations.
• Automatically generates change management plans along with reference notes for relevant stakeholders.

Testing Center of Excellence (CoE) - Test Scoping:

• Uses AI to recommend test scenarios by analyzing system data and process usage.
• Identifies the most critical areas to focus testing efforts, reducing unnecessary testing and ensuring optimized coverage.
• Predicts the impact of changes on testing scope, helping teams prioritize and streamline the testing process for faster, more accurate deployments.

 Release Impact Analysis:

• Employs AI to assess the impact of new releases and updates on existing SAP systems.
• Automatically identifies potential conflicts, code adjustments, and areas that require retesting, minimizing the risk of disruptions during upgrades.
• Ensures a smooth transition between releases, with minimal manual intervention and reduced downtime.

Generative AI at the Core of KTern.AI

One of the most cutting-edge features of KTern.AI is its use of Generative AI (Gen-AI) for custom code remediation. Moving to the cloud often involves reworking custom code built over years, sometimes decades, of SAP system use. In a "clean core" world, where businesses strive to maintain a lean and flexible codebase, dealing with legacy customizations can be a major obstacle.

KTern.AI leverages Gen-AI to analyze the customer’s on-premise system, identify custom code, and then automatically suggest and generate optimized replacements that are compatible with a clean core cloud environment. This approach dramatically reduces the manual coding effort, allowing developers to focus on more value-added activities.

KTern.AI and AWS Bedrock: Pioneering Gen-AI in SAP Custom Code Remediation

KTern.AI has taken its generative AI capabilities a step further by collaborating with AWS Bedrock, a powerful foundation model service that accelerates the deployment of Gen-AI models. Through this partnership, KTern.AI taps into Bedrock’s infrastructure to develop custom code remediation solutions tailored for SAP systems.

• Optimized AI infrastructure: AWS Bedrock provides a high-performance AI infrastructure that enables KTern.AI to run complex generative models at scale, making it possible to remediate large SAP landscapes quickly and efficiently.
• Training specialty models: By training custom Large Language Models (LLMs) specifically on SAP code and best practices, KTern.AI ensures that its Gen-AI solutions produce accurate, clean, and future-proof code.
• Seamless integration: The use of AWS Bedrock ensures that KTern.AI’s AI models are integrated seamlessly into the customer’s existing AWS environment, allowing for faster deployments and lower operational costs.

Co-Innovation with SAP COIL and Cloud ALM: Driving the Future of SAP Automation

KTern.AI’s AI-first approach is further strengthened by its collaboration with SAP COIL (Co-Innovation Lab) and the Cloud ALM teams. This partnership enables KTern.AI to stay at the cutting edge of SAP technologies and deliver tools that perfectly align with SAP's vision of a clean core and cloud-first future.

• SAP COIL partnership: Through co-innovation with SAP COIL, KTern.AI ensures that its solutions are aligned with the latest advancements in SAP project automation. This partnership allows KTern.AI to continuously refine its AI models, ensuring that customers receive the most up-to-date solutions for their SAP transformations.
• Cloud ALM integration: KTern.AI integrates seamlessly with SAP Cloud ALM, providing businesses with an AI-driven project management solution that covers the entire lifecycle—from planning and implementation to monitoring and post-go-live support. Cloud ALM integration allows for real-time visibility into project health, risks, and performance, all while leveraging AI to recommend optimizations along the way.

Delivering Value to Customers: A Case Study in AI-First Delivery

One of KTern.AI's first customers in the Oil & Gas industry experienced the full benefits of the platform’s AI-driven capabilities. Faced with the challenge of migrating a highly customized SAP system to the cloud, KTern.AI stepped in to automate code remediation, project management, and testing.

By leveraging AWS Bedrock and integrating with SAP Cloud ALM, KTern.AI aims to help the customer reduce manual effort by 40%, accelerate project timelines by 30%, and achieve a 99% reduction in custom code complexity. The result would be more faster resulting in more efficient cloud migration with minimal business disruption. Click here for more info.

Vision for AI-First delivery with KTern.AI

Looking ahead, KTern.AI is committed to furthering its mission of automating the entire SAP project lifecycle using AI. Our vision is to:

• Expand AI capabilities: We will continue to enhance our Gen-AI capabilities, focusing on delivering even more automated solutions for code remediation, testing, and system monitoring.
• Collaborate with SAP partners: KTern.AI is open to collaborating with other SAP partners to create a unified ecosystem of AI-driven tools that can serve the broader SAP community.
• Drive clean core adoption: As more businesses move towards a clean core, KTern.AI will remain a key enabler of this transition, helping companies eliminate unnecessary customizations and adopt agile, cloud-first strategies.
• Focus on customer success: Our goal is to help customers achieve faster ROI, reduce operational costs, and ensure long-term success with their SAP systems.

Conclusion

KTern.AI is leading the charge in AI-driven SAP project delivery. By integrating advanced AI technologies, collaborating with industry giants like AWS and SAP, and continually innovating with partners like SAP COIL and Cloud ALM, KTern.AI is setting a new standard for how businesses approach SAP transformations. The result is a faster, more efficient, and more intelligent approach to delivering SAP projects in a clean core, cloud-first world.