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 states 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
Initiatives compete, interests pull in different directions and the consequences stay unclear. What helps is an aligned decision with priorities people can follow.
Modernizing the landscape
SAP, cloud, data and AI move in parallel, and dependencies surface too late. What helps is a viable target state and a realistic order of change.
Making transformation deliverable
Accountability, decision rights and delivery follow no shared logic. What helps is clear steering, reliable decisions and visible progress.
What weighs heaviest is often having to stand behind a far-reaching decision while facts, options and stakeholders have not yet come together.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 state 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, yet every one needs a coherent overall picture.
Technology strategy and transformation
We connect business ambition and technology investment into one clear direction. The result is a prioritized target state and an investment logic you can stand behind.
Enterprise architecture and platforms
We make dependencies, options and the consequences of modernization decidable. That produces a viable architecture and a sensible order of change.
Data, analytics and AI
We put the data foundation, use cases, governance and technical prerequisites in order, so your data and AI landscape can grow safely.
Transformation delivery
We connect portfolio, decision rights and delivery with measurable results, which gives you clear steering and an organization that delivers.
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.
Clients we may name include Bayer, Birkenstock, Volkswagen, thyssenkrupp, Siemens, Vaillant, Audi and LANXESS.
One anonymized case shows how we work. For an SAP BW/HANA assessment we evaluated a terabyte-scale landscape across eight dimensions and delivered a status assessment, 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.
Book a conversation with Oliver
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