The promise
SAP AGENT RACE TO SAPPHIRE, 1 OF 27 WORLDWIDE
Building the Autonomous Business - one line of business at a time.
Applexus takes your enterprise from AI readiness to purpose-built agents in production, on a proven journey from Answer to Advise to Act, with governance built in at every step.
Not automation of tasks. Orchestration of outcomes, in the language of the function that owns them.
Proof, not promise
Validated by SAP. Running in production today. We sell a delivery plan, not a demo.
1 of 27
SAP Agent Race to Sapphire partners worldwide
100%
of agents already in production on S/4
Days
to AI-readiness, not months, with EULR
20
agent use cases on the Sapphire 2026 keynote wall
Everyone now says "we have agents." We meet your enterprise where it is, and carry it to autonomy.
Most enterprises are stuck: trapped in months of assessment, or lost in pilot purgatory where experiments demo well and never scale. Applexus solves both, anchored in the line of business, on a staged path with value at every step.
What We Do
Our Offerings
Four interconnected pillars that take you from strategy to autonomous operations.
AI Strategy Services
AI Technology Services
Business AI Solutions
AI Operations
AI Strategy Services
Define where you’re going, how you’ll govern it, and how your people get there.
Strategy and Roadmap engagements, powered by EULR, identify the right opportunities. A customer is never sold a capability without the foundation to succeed.
AI Opportunity Assessment
Map maturity, rank use cases, and identify where to start.
Autonomous Business Roadmap
Phased plan with milestones, investment profile, and business case.
AI Governance & Operating Model
HiL policy, escalation thresholds, audit trail, and human-AI operating model.
Change Management & Adoption
Workforce impact, role evolution, capability building, and adoption strategy.
Our Approach
Answer-Advise-Act
The technology to reach autonomy already exists. What gates progress is trust, earned by watching the AI answer well, then advise well, before it acts. This is a trust curve, not a technology curve.
Answer
Agentic BI · MVP in 2–3 months
Ask a question, get an instant, explained answer. No more waiting on reports or dashboards.
- Human's roleDoes the work / asks
- AutonomyAssistive · human-in-loop
- ValueQuick wins, visible ROI
Advise
Agentic Advisory · 2–8 months
The AI watches continuously and comes to you with ranked, reasoned recommendations and trade-offs.
- Human's roleJudges / decides
- AutonomyProactive · integrated
- ValueFaster, better decisions
Act
Agentic AI · 8–12 months
The AI executes within human-set guardrails. Bounded autonomy; exceptions escalate.
- Human's roleGoverns / sets guardrails
- Autonomy Predictive · autonomous
- Value Routine work, run by AI
Maturity is not swapping use cases, it's the depth of AI participation on the same enduring jobs. Finance still runs the close in every phase; supply chain still balances demand and supply. What changes is how much of that work is the AI's versus the human's.
Our IP
Proprietary tools no other partner can bring
EULR answers "where do we start?" IRIS answers "here it is, deployed and delivering." Few competitors offer both, and rarely with proprietary tools.
EULR
AI Readiness Accelerator
Connects to your enterprise data, SAP and non-SAP, assesses data quality and readiness, identifies high-value AI use cases grounded in actual data, and generates executive-ready recommendations in days instead of months.
- Runs 100% inside your environment, sensitive data never leaves your perimeter.
- Compresses months of discovery into days, the front door to every engagement.
IRIS
Agentic AI Portfolio
A productized portfolio of agentic AI across Finance, Supply Chain, and Workforce that progresses through the Crawl–Walk–Run journey. Every agent maps to a specific business outcome and is designed to move the line of business toward autonomy.
- SAP-validated and already running on customer S/4 today.
- Productized per function, outcomes, not one-off builds.
Our Agents · The IRIS Suite
Production-grade agents, ready to deploy
The evidence behind every claim. SAP-validated, governed by design, and already running on customer S/4, nothing writes back without human approval.
Finance AI Agent
The controller's close copilot, real-time anomaly, variance and trend on close data, conversational SQL, treasury and cash position, vendor-risk, SOX tie-outs, and accrual proposals.
Supply Chain Agent
End-to-end procurement, demand forecasting, BOM and inventory, safety-stock and replenishment, supplier selection, approval bundles, idempotent S/4 posting, and tariff what-if.
Predictive Maintenance Agent
SAP-PM-native asset intelligence, criticality scoring, Weibull failure prediction, sensor anomaly detection, root-cause, spare-parts forecasting, and work-order drafting.
Promotion Agent
Trade-promotion management, demand baselines, causal lift, basket affinity, shopper segmentation, promo optimisation under budget, margin guardrails, and deduction audit.
Spend Agent
Procurement spend intelligence, turns a natural-language question into a CFO-ready answer: spend clustering, anomaly detection, Kraljic matrix, savings tracker, and compliance rules.
Why Applexus for Business AI
Specific. Defensible. Hard to replicate.
Six reasons enterprises trust Applexus to turn agentic AI into business outcomes.
01
LoB-specific agentic AI
Not generic AI. Agents mapped to real business processes and outcomes across all lines of business.
02
The EULR + IRIS flywheel
Two proprietary platforms, EULR discovers AI use cases & data products; IRIS delivers productized agents across the AI maturity arc for all LoBs.
03
Framework for Autonomous Business
A 2–3 year value roadmap, from quick-win MVPs to autonomous operations, not a one-off project. Governance built in with guardrails, auditability, and human-in-the-loop controls.
04
Any Stack. Any Cloud. Agentic by Design.
Production-grade AI agents wherever your data lives, natively on SAP (BTP AI Core, Joule, BDC) or on Databricks, Snowflake, or any hyperscaler platform.
05
A Decade of AI Innovation
From establishing our in-house AI R&D practice a decade ago, to embedding AI across our products, to delivering enterprise agentic AI solutions today, we have come a long way.
SAP Recognition
1 of 27
Partners worldwide to win the Agent Race at Sapphire, agents validated by SAP and featured on the Sapphire 2026 keynote stage.
Customer Impact
Outcomes our customers are building toward
Detailed customer stories are in production. Below are representative engagements across the lines of business we lead with.
Leading North American oil and gas operator
Oil & Gas • SAP S/4HANA • AI agentApplexus deployed an SAP-integrated AI agent to analyze 260,000+ annual preventive maintenance orders, recommending optimization opportunities across PM frequencies, labor planning, and materials management — all governed by human-in-the-loop approval. The 12-week MVP delivered measurable cost and scheduling improvements without increasing asset risk.
Core Capabilities Delivered
- PM frequency optimization with 5%+ reduction in annual PM volume through safe frequency extensions
- Labor calibration delivering 18%+ improvement in planned-vs-actual hours accuracy
- Materials recommendations achieving 25%+ improvement in right-parts-on-first-visit rate
- Automated SAP write-back of approved changes with full audit trail and planner governance
- ROI prioritization ranking all recommendations by estimated cost and hours saved
Leading industrial gases producer
Industrial gases • Databricks • ML demand forecastingApplexus built a machine learning demand forecasting engine on Databricks that replaced spreadsheet-driven planning across a specialty gases supply chain. One forecast signal now drives inventory, capacity, equipment, and procurement decisions — delivering 30% better forecast accuracy and enabling dynamic safety stock per product.
Core Capabilities Delivered
- Ensemble ML forecasting engine (ARIMA, Prophet, LightGBM, CatBoost, NGBoost) with confidence intervals
- Dynamic safety stock and stockout/overstock risk scoring per product with expiry-aware rotation
- Capacity planning with utilization probability per plant, shift scheduling, and bottleneck detection
- Cylinder and equipment demand translation with return-cycle pattern recognition by location
- Raw material procurement forecasting with yield/conversion ratios, fed by SAP Datasphere via Azure Data Lake