For CTOs and technology leaders
Complex technology decisions.
Made with confidence.
Xient connects technology strategy, architecture, governance and delivery - so you can stand behind your investments and steer change effectively.
Personally led. Independent in judgment. From the first conversation into operations.
Your contact
Whoever decides with Xient works directly with Oliver.
Oliver Schwenteck, Chief Technology Officer, owns strategy and transformation work at Xient - from the first conversation into operations. He combines business perspective, architectural understanding and hands-on transformation experience, and translates target pictures into decisions, procedures and structures that hold up in reality.
"Being in control does not mean controlling everything. It means knowing, at any moment, what comes next."
Personally accountable · Technologically grounded · Independent in judgment
Your decision situation
You have to decide. But the picture is not clear.
CTOs are accountable for modernization, stability and future readiness at the same time. The bottleneck is rarely the next technology - it is a reliable overall picture.
Aligning investments
What slows you down: initiatives compete, interests contradict each other and the consequences stay unclear.
What you need: an aligned decision with traceable priorities.
Modernizing the landscape
What slows you down: SAP, cloud, data and AI evolve in parallel; dependencies surface too late.
What you need: a viable target picture and a realistic change sequence.
Making transformation deliverable
What slows you down: accountability, decision rights and execution follow no shared logic.
What you need: clear steering, reliable decisions and measurable progress.
The real burden: having to stand behind a far-reaching decision while facts, options or stakeholders do not yet line up.Oliver Schwenteck
The next step
What is blocking the decision?
Pick the cause that best describes your situation. You are not choosing a product - you are sharpening the focus.
Our recommendation: Executive Decision Sprint
Focus: a reliable starting point. We consolidate the existing facts, expose the gaps and separate established knowledge from assumptions.
Afterwards you can decide on priorities and the necessary scope of investigation.
The clear entry point: Executive Decision Sprint
You do not have to decide the entire transformation at once. We make the next essential decision reliable. Where it turns out that a full baseline picture is needed first, the sprint leads into the Xient Executive Assessment.
How we work
From findings to a decision that holds.
One approach, four steps. Each step removes a specific uncertainty and sets up the next.
Understand
Business context, ambition, maturity and decision bottlenecks form a shared fact base.
Clarity on the situation
Align
Capabilities, target picture and architecture principles connect business goals with technological consequences.
Shared direction
Decide
Options are assessed by value, risk and feasibility and translated into a prioritized sequence.
Justified focus
Anchor
Governance, operating model and delivery structures make the decision deliverable for good.
Impact in operations
Integrated expertise
Four perspectives. One decision.
We combine only the capabilities your specific decision demands. Not every situation needs everything - but every one needs a coherent overall picture.
Technology strategy & transformation
Connects business ambition and technology investments into a clear direction.
Outcome: prioritized target picture and investment logic
Enterprise architecture & platforms
Makes dependencies, options and modernization consequences decidable.
Outcome: viable architecture and change sequence
Data, analytics & AI
Puts data foundation, use cases, governance and technical prerequisites in order.
Outcome: a data and AI landscape that scales safely
Transformation delivery
Connects portfolio, decision rights and execution with measurable results.
Outcome: clear steering and a deliverable organization
Evidence, not claims
Boutique closeness. Enterprise depth.
Since 2011 Xient has accompanied demanding strategy and transformation mandates - from mid-caps to the DAX, at C-level, director and head-of level.
Named with approval: Bayer · Birkenstock · Volkswagen · thyssenkrupp · Siemens · Vaillant · Audi · LANXESS
Anonymized case - SAP BW/HANA assessment: a terabyte-scale landscape assessed across eight dimensions, with status picture, detailed findings and a roadmap in three time horizons. Read the case → · All references →
When Xient is the right fit
Xient is right when ...
- a far-reaching technology decision is ahead.
- business, architecture and delivery have to be thought through together.
- you need an independent, reliable perspective.
- your teams should be enabled to keep steering themselves.
We are not the right partner when ...
- the decision is already made and only needs confirming.
- you are solely looking for additional delivery capacity.
- a standard solution is expected regardless of context.
What we do not take on, we say openly. For specialized delivery we work with a well-established partner network.
Confidential strategy conversation
Which decision is ahead of you?
You speak directly with Oliver Schwenteck. In the first conversation you clarify the decision situation, the possible focus and whether Xient is the right partner for it.