Beyond the Horizon: Architecting Tomorrow’s Businesses with SAP Cloud Solutions & Inetum

The digital landscape is fundamentally transforming as businesses recognize that the cloud is the foundation for agility, scalability, and future-proof growth.

According to SAPinsider research, implementing enterprise platforms like SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) enables organizations to digitize and automate routine tasks, freeing employees to focus on higher-value activities. These platforms’ workflow automation and intelligent process integration help ensure accurate, real-time data flow between modules. This reduces the need for manual intervention, helps minimize errors, and eliminates duplication.

However, navigating this complex transition requires a capable implementation partner like INETUM, a leading digital services company whose relationship with SAP—spanning more than two decades—has evolved into a fundamental pillar of its growth strategy. With over 2,700 SAP consultants across 19 countries, the organization specializes in public and private cloud implementations, SAP S/4HANA transformations, and AI-infused solutions. This deep alignment has resulted in Inetum delivering over 100 SAP S/4HANA implementations across various industries in the last decade.

Kathy Quashie, EVP and CEO of Inetum Growing Markets including UK and Ireland, views the company’s upper mid-market focus and rightshoring delivery strategy as a strategic advantage. “We’re big enough to serve multinational clients, yet agile enough to act fast and prioritize their interests. We share SAP’s customer-first, innovation-driven approach. Our goal is to help clients navigate transformation in a pragmatic and sustainable way”.

In line with this vision, Inetum’s SAP Global Practice has recently expanded to the UK&I markets. As an SAP PE SELL Partner, Inetum UK&I can now offer innovative SAP solutions with a customer-centric approach, providing UK&I businesses access to Inetum’s proven SAP expertise. This includes a blend of local, nearshore, and offshore consulting capabilities, all within a competitive and cost-effective service model.

Embracing Innovation

A cornerstone of Inetum’s approach lies in encompassing SAP’s innovative offerings to empower large corporations and midmarket businesses and harness the transformative power of SAP’s cloud solutions for accelerated growth and seamless scalability.

According to Fiamma Ferrero, SVP Global Practice Manager SAP, Inetum Group: “Recognizing the need for speed and efficiency in reaching and engaging with customers, particularly in the midmarket, Inetum strategically partnered with SAP’s Digital Hubs across the globe in EMEA, CEE (Eastern Europe and Switzerland), and LAC (Americas). These collaborative ecosystems, powered by AI and intelligent technologies, have catalyzed Inetum’s market agility.”

Inetum’s pioneering spirit hasn’t gone unnoticed. Inetum was recognized with two prestigious awards at the SAP EMEA Partner Excellence Awards 2025, which includes the Cloud Delivery Excellence award, and the Best Human Capital Management Partner 2025 award, among others received at country level across the region.

Customer Success at the Core

This synergy between Inetum and SAP goes beyond efficiency gains. It’s about delivering enhanced customer value. During a recent interview with SAPinsider, Quashie and Ferrero shared some of these success stories. They included:

• A project with a construction company where Inetum automated document management and verification across multiple sites using an intelligent GenAI application. This solution, built on SAP BTP and utilizing technologies such as Cloud Foundry, SAP DIE – Document Information Extraction, SAP Cloud Identity Services, SAP AI Launchpad, SAP AI Core, SAP Workzone, PostgreSQL, and easyMobileProcess (eMP – an Inetum Solution), integrated with SAP purchasing processes. It reduced manual effort, increased accuracy, and improved operational efficiency. The GenAI tool automatically indicates paths for document reception and obtains relevant information, transforming data into actionable knowledge. This scalable solution adapts to each geographic area’s needs, allowing resources to be reallocated to more strategic areas.
• Collaboration with a postal service to optimize and maintain their SAP ERP system. This transformation leveraged technical expertise and cost optimization strategies, including Robotic Process Automation (RPA), resulting in smooth ERP upgrades, minimized disruptions, and significant cost savings.
• Implementation of a SAP S/4HANA & SAP SuccessFactors Greenfield project on SAP S/4 Public Cloud for a financial services subsidiary. Despite unique challenges in integration, staff training, and process management, the new system improved efficiency, streamlined processes, and enhanced service delivery.
• Implementation of the SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud solution and SAP Ariba for a global hospitality company to reorganize and homogenize their end-to-end business processes across different sites. Despite challenges in localization and complex integrations, the new system provided flexibility, streamlined processes, and laid a strong IT foundation for expansion and growth.
• Maintenance and evolution of the SAP SuccessFactors suite for an automotive plant with over 15,000 employees. Despite challenges in integration and HR process changes, Inetum’s services significantly improved HR operations, particularly in payroll and time management.
• A project with a sports organization where Inetum managed and evolved their cloud solutions, including SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, SAP ARIBA, SAP Analytics, and SAP SuccessFactors. This transformation enhanced control, traceability, flexibility, and scalability, while reducing costs despite challenges in system integration, process optimization, and international rollouts.
• Implementation for a mining company to deploy SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud and adapt to new business needs and market changes. This transformation streamlined processes, improved efficiency, and enabled advanced cost analysis despite complex integrations and extensive change management. Additionally, their new SAP system allowed them to integrate their processes with their customer’s SAP systems -all of them large multinational companies-, increasing automation and minimizing both manual interaction and potential human errors.
• Maintaining and transforming to SAP S/4HANA one of the largest Public Sector SAP implementations in Europe, Madrid’s regional government, that manages the budget, serve nearly 5 million citizens, and 160,000 public employees. Despite challenges related to outdated systems and extensive change management, the new system standardized the economic and financial management model, improved efficiency, and provided greater functional coverage.

What This Means for SAPinsiders

Inetum has significant opportunities in the UK and Ireland. During the interview with SAPinsider, Quashie noted that, “Organizations in the UK and Ireland are keen on adopting innovative solutions to enhance their operations and Inetum’s proven track record positions it well to meet this demand. We are recognized as one of the Top 3 SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Partner and the Top 4 SAP Cloud Partner in the region. This and its strong partnership with SAP will provide a solid foundation for expanding its market presence.”

Seek speed and agility in your implementation partner. Digital services provider like Inetum emphasize innovation by investing in AI and public cloud solutions, driving transformation through SAP BTP with data and AI. Their International Innovation Departments (named FabLabs) foster co-creation and experimentation, allowing them to collaborate with clients, partners, and internal teams to invent tomorrow’s solutions. Inetum prioritizes lean and short projects, typically under 18 months. This approach allows them to transition projects efficiently, ensuring minimal disruption and maximum agility.

Approach a project with the future in mind. Inetum’s expertise lies in delivering clean core projects with minimal customization. This ensures their solutions are robust, scalable, and easy to maintain. Moreover, its solutions are future-ready as they use effective sprints and AI to accelerate readiness through their data factory for proof-of-concept projects. As Ferrero sums it, “We’re not just following SAP’s roadmap—we’re helping shape it, and we’re making sure our customers are ready when the future arrives.” This is what Inetum’s mission is all about – to help our customers transform potential into performance.