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Technology-driven management consultancy

Know where you stand. Then decide.

The independent assessment for high-stakes SAP, data, architecture, and AI decisions - run by a management consultancy that turns findings into target pictures, roadmaps, and control.

Independent in our judgment, methodologically and commercially unaffiliated. Xient Executive Assessment - from 30,000 euros, fixed price after scoping.

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Since 2011strategy and transformation mandates at executive level
160+ legal entitiesone global strategy, rolled out to 250,000+ people
Hidden champions to DAXadvising C-levels, directors, and heads-of
Terabyte landscapesaudited down to the HANA layer - depth most strategy firms don't have

Trusted by Bayer, Birkenstock, Volkswagen, thyssenkrupp, Siemens, Vaillant, Audi, and LANXESS - named with written consent.

When Xient gets the call

You have to decide - but the picture isn't clear.

  • A major investment decision is coming up - S/4, data platform, AI program.
  • You're getting conflicting answers about the state of your landscape.
  • The target architecture and roadmap were written by the vendor who'll build it.
  • Status reports and what you hear from the floor don't match.
  • The risks are known. The priorities aren't.
  • The board needs a defensible basis - not another opinion.

Two minutes, honest answer: the decision check

The entry product

The Xient Executive Assessment.

A cross-disciplinary expert team delivers a defensible picture of where you actually stand - findings, heatmap, priorities, and a 90/180/360-day roadmap, presented in an Executive Decision Session. From 30,000 euros, fixed price after scoping.

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Proof, not promises

See for yourself what you get.

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The sample report

Eight pages from an assessment: heatmap, three findings, prioritization logic, roadmap excerpt. Anonymized and abridged - but real in form. (German)

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Case: the BW/HANA audit

A real, anonymized engagement: eight dimensions of a terabyte-scale SAP BW/HANA landscape assessed - status picture, two detailed findings, three-horizon roadmap. (German)

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Case: classified data

A real, anonymized engagement: protecting classified data before outsourcing a central SAP BW reporting - decision question, findings, verified result. (German)

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The references

Bayer, Birkenstock, Volkswagen, thyssenkrupp, Siemens, Vaillant, Audi, LANXESS - named with written consent, described with real outcomes.

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Seven entry points, one assessment

What do you need to judge with confidence?

Assess your technology

SAP System Health Check Enterprise Architecture Review SAP Business Data Cloud Readiness

Prepare for what's next

AI Readiness Assessment Data & Analytics Readiness

Regain control

Delivery Performance Review Transformation Second Opinion

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Our approach

In many companies, the future is already here.

It's in the data, the systems, the processes - and in what people already know. The potential is there; what's missing is the way in. New systems, new tools, new demands, new uncertainty: a maze full of possibilities, but no map.

This is exactly where Xient comes in.

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Complexity becomes clarity. We translate scattered data, systems and processes into structures that are understandable and ready to connect.
02
Clarity becomes better decisions. See clearly, and you decide with more confidence - and win back control.
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Better decisions become future readiness. The ability to act today turns into the ability to shape what comes next.

Because technology is always a human matter. So we don't start with tools - we start by listening. We operate at the intersection of business, technology and enterprise reality - and we take ownership until things work. And our AI expertise is real and already in production - proven in research and innovation projects, and deployed responsibly, well clear of the hype.

After the findings

From assessment to execution.

Xient is a management consultancy with technical depth: we cover the full arc from investment decision to target picture, operating model, and program control. Whether you execute with us, in-house, or with your current partner is your call - the findings stand either way:

Boutique attention. Enterprise depth.

About us

Boutique focus, enterprise depth.

Since 2011, from Cologne, we've guided demanding transformations - for the Mittelstand, hidden champions and DAX corporations. A compact team and a proven network of professionals and partners take on even the largest engagements.

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Careers

Shape it, don't just watch.

At Xient, newcomers work on real projects and real kit from day one: our own AI hardware, our own SAP systems, our place in SAP's PartnerEdge Open Ecosystem, and European research at the cutting edge. We train people - if you roll up your sleeves, you help shape things.

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Success Stories

Impact that sticks in daily work.

Projects that hold up in daily operations - not just on paper. For Bayer, Siemens, thyssenkrupp, Audi and hidden champions across automotive, chemicals, energy and industry: IT transformation, data architecture, system integration and process digitisation.

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Contact

Gain clarity.

Tell us what you're working on - we'll come back with an honest read and a concrete next step. We listen before we propose solutions.

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