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smartShift AI Agents: The Next Leap in SAP Transformation

October 31st, 2025

2 min read

By Jagdish Sahasrabudhe

smartShift, agentic AI digital transformation SAP Custom Code

Turn Legacy Code into a Future-Ready Business Advantage

For more than a decade, smartShift has led the way in automating SAP transformations — converting millions of lines of legacy ABAP into modern, clean, and compliant code. Built on deep automation expertise and insights from hundreds of enterprise-scale SAP transformations, smartShift now brings that proven experience into the age of AI Agents — not as a technology “toy”, but as a new way to deliver tangible business outcomes.

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Understanding AI Agents

AI Agents represent the next generation of applied automation — systems that not only process information but also reason, decide, and act autonomously. They combine data, context, and intent to take purposeful actions, continuously adapting to business needs. For enterprises, this means less manual effort, faster delivery, and outcomes grounded in accuracy, consistency, and learning over time.

AI Agents Built on Proven Experience

smartShift’s AI Agents are powered by more than a decade of real transformation experience and enriched with data from thousands of automated modernization scenarios. This foundation enables our agents to operate effectively within the complex realities of SAP — understanding dependencies, optimizing performance, and ensuring compliance with SAP’s Clean Core principles.

While many vendors talk about AI platforms, few have the depth and amount of transformation data to make AI truly effective. All aspects of data must be covered – quality, variation, and quantity – this is what smartShift’s AI agents bring.  Our proprietary knowledge base enables our agents to make context-aware, business-relevant recommendations — with predictable and auditable results that drive modernization, not experimentation.

Safer AI for High-Stakes SAP Modernization

Generic LLM-based agents from new entrants often struggle with accuracy — hallucinating results that can derail critical S/4 upgrade paths. smartShift’s advantage lies in the depth of its domain data and transformation experience.

We fine-tune base models using proprietary ABAP code patterns and transformation data from hundreds of enterprise-scale SAP modernization efforts. This domain grounding ensures our agents deliver precise, consistent results where it matters most. Unlike untested approaches, smartShift combines proven transformation expertise with advanced AI reasoning — giving customers the confidence to modernize without risk.

AI Agents Built for Real Business Outcomes

Customers don’t buy technology for its own sake — they invest in outcomes. When transforming legacy ABAP landscapes, enterprises consistently look for two results:

  • Future-Proof Upgrades. Predictable Progress. Every SAP upgrade should strengthen—not stall—your business. smartShift AI Agents reduce technical debt, streamline effort, and eliminate risk, so upgrades become predictable, precise, and faster to deliver—the result: a future-proof SAP landscape that continuously evolves without disruption.

  • Sustainable Modernization: Enabling continuous innovation and future-proofing — the essence of SAP Clean Core. smartShift AI Agents help organizations modernize their custom code by aligning with SAP-released APIs and extensibility frameworks, ensuring compatibility with evolving SAP standards while unlocking new agility for innovation and integration.

smartShift AI Agents deliver both. We’re enabling customers to achieve business effectiveness — faster upgrades, lower risk, and a modernized SAP foundation ready for innovation.

What’s Next Is Already Here

smartShift AI Agents are just the beginning. As we continue to modernize SAP’s most complex environments, we’re equipping enterprises with the intelligence to stay ready—upgrade after upgrade, change after change.

Jagdish Sahasrabudhe

As the Chief Technology Officer at smartShift, he brings over 25 years of experience in product strategy, SAP applications, and enterprise AI. Previously, he served as SAP's field CTO, where he worked with ISVs and channel partners to align complex technologies with market needs. He has earned multiple accolades, including the SAP Innovation Award (2005). His leadership roles across startups and large enterprises, along with recognition such as the Zinnov Start-up Beacon Award (2014), uniquely position him to drive innovation and growth at smartShift.

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