Why outsource SAP

You shouldn't be paying full-time salaries for part-time SAP work

Most mid-market SAP customers spend SAR 1.5–4M/year on in-house teams just to keep the lights on — and still get blindsided by upgrades, integrations, and audit findings.

We turn that fixed cost into a flexible, capped SLA. Onshore presence where it matters, offshore depth where it scales, and senior consultants from day one.

40-60%
Lower run-cost
24/7
SLA coverage
15 min
P1 ack target
14 days
Transition window
The promise

Six reasons clients move their SAP to emKan AMS

Lower TCO

Onshore-offshore blend means tier-1 quality at mid-market price.

24/7 SLA

Round-the-clock incident response. 15-min P1 ack, 4-hour resolution.

Continuous improvement

Quarterly enhancements, upgrade hygiene — no extra SOW.

Saudi-localized governance

Riyadh-based leads. ZATCA, PDPL, Saudization reporting handled.

Zero transition fees

We absorb knowledge transfer. Old vendor leaves Friday, we're live Monday.

SAP-certified consultants

Every L2/L3 resource certified — SuccessFactors, S/4HANA, BTP, IS.

Engagement models

Three ways to engage — pick what fits your stage

Not every company needs a full AMS contract on day one. Start with a sprint, scale to a retainer, downsize when the system is mature.

1 — Staff Augmentation

Your team, plus ours. You keep IT leadership in-house. We embed certified SAP consultants by skill, by month, with no minimum commitment.

  • Functional & technical consultants on demand
  • SF, S/4, BTP, Integration Suite, ABAP, Fiori
  • Bilingual (Arabic / English)
  • Onsite Riyadh, remote, or hybrid
  • No transition fee, no minimum length

Best for: in-house IT teams needing scale

2 — Project-Based

Fixed scope, fixed budget. Defined outcome, defined timeline. We commit to the deliverable; you commit to the scope.

  • SAP enhancements & custom BTP apps
  • Integration projects (Qiwa, ZATCA, banking)
  • Saudi compliance updates
  • Cloud migration & version upgrades
  • Performance tuning & audit readiness

Best for: bounded scope, clear outcome

3 — Full AMS Retainer

We run it, you don't. End-to-end SAP operations on monthly subscription. 24/7 service desk, L1–L3 coverage, governance baked in.

  • 24/7 bilingual service desk (AR/EN)
  • L1 triage · L2 functional & technical · L3 senior
  • Monthly enhancement bucket (e.g. 40h)
  • ZATCA, Qiwa, audit-period support
  • Quarterly health-check with your CIO

Best for: mature SAP estates that need to run lean

Service layers

The 4 layers of emKan AMS

Each layer is staffed independently with the right skill tier. No L1 trying to debug a BTP integration — and no senior architect doing password resets.

L1 — Service Desk

Single point of contact: phone, email, ticketing portal, Teams. Bilingual AR + EN. 24/7 across KSA, GCC, Egypt time zones.

  • User access & password
  • Incident triage & routing
  • FAQ & how-to
  • Ticket ownership E2E

L2 — Functional & Technical

SAP-certified consultants who actually fix things. Process-aware, data-careful, Saudi-localization fluent.

  • Config (HCM, FICO, MM, SD)
  • ABAP, CDS, Fiori, BTP CAP
  • Integration & middleware
  • Reports, forms, workflows

L3 — Senior & Architects

For when "fix it" isn't enough. Solution architects, BTP experts, master data leads — and they teach your team along the way.

  • Major release upgrades
  • Complex integrations
  • Performance tuning
  • Architecture reviews

L4 — Governance

Service delivery manager, SLA reporting, change-advisory board, knowledge management. The unglamorous layer that prevents disasters.

  • Dedicated SDM
  • Monthly KPI report
  • Quarterly business review
  • Continuous improvement plan
SLA commitments

What we promise — in writing, by tier

Every AMS proposal includes these targets baked into the contract, with service credits if we miss them.

Metric Bronze Silver Gold
Coverage hours8×516×624×7
P1 acknowledgement1 hour30 min15 min
P1 target resolution1 business day6 hours4 hours
P2 target resolution2 business days1 business day6 hours
System availability99.0%99.3%99.5%
Monthly enhancement bucket20 hours40 hours80 hours
Dedicated service managerSharedDedicatedDedicated + onsite
ZATCA / PDPL / auditAdd-onIncludedPriority
Transition process

From signed SOW to first ticket — 14 days

We absorb the discovery cost. By day 14, your existing vendor is gone, our runbooks are live, and your team is talking to one phone number.

1

Discovery

Days 1–3: We profile your landscape, integrations, ticket history, and pain points. No documentation required — we build it.

2

Knowledge transfer

Days 4–8: Shadow existing vendor (if any), build runbooks, capture tribal knowledge, get system access.

3

Parallel run

Days 9–12: Run incidents in parallel to validate process. SLA clock not started yet — confidence-building only.

4

Go-live

Days 13–14: Full handover. Service desk active. SLA clock starts. We own it from here.

Honest comparison

Why not the big SI — and why not pure offshore

We're not the cheapest, and we're not the most prestigious nameplate. We're the model where money, outcome, and speed actually triangulate.

In-house team

  • 100% cost baseline
  • Hard to staff 24/7
  • Saudi compliance: native
  • Senior talent: expensive
  • Scale: limited

Tier-1 SI / Big-4

  • 120–140% of in-house cost
  • Pyramid staffing model
  • Generic compliance
  • Senior partner disappears after kickoff
  • 30–60 day transition

Pure-offshore vendor

  • 40–55% of baseline
  • No Saudi presence
  • Weak compliance fluency
  • Junior-heavy team
  • English-only documentation
The emKan model Riyadh onsite + Egypt offshore · 50–70% cost · Senior-led · Bilingual native · 14-day transition

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One hour with a senior emKan consultant. Bring your last 90 days of SAP tickets — we'll show you where your money is leaking and what a SAR-realistic AMS package looks like.

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