New artificial intelligence tools claim to automate 59% of enterprise software migration tasks

A Warrington-based SAP consultancy has launched AI agents it says can handle 59% of the work involved in migrating large companies off SAP's legacy ERP system, known as ECC — and is betting that the economics of that migration will look nothing like the offshoring boom that preceded it.

On May 23rd, Resulting IT released two tools — S4SensAI and ABAPBanZAI — designed to automate the repetitive, rules-driven portions of an S/4HANA migration, the kind of project that typically costs millions and stretches over years. The company's own analysis of 186 project tasks across architecture, configuration, development, testing, and programme management found that 59% of the discrete work could be performed by agents, according to a press release published via USA Today. S4SensAI is built on Resulting IT's own S4LLM — a curated graph database of over 140 SAP knowledge sources — and sits atop the Langdock enterprise AI orchestration platform, supporting Claude, GPT, and Gemini models, according to the product page. The pitch on day rates: senior UK SAP contractors charge £500 to £950 per day, with EU equivalents above €700; Resulting IT claims its agents can deliver 50 to 60% savings on SI spend, per the press release.

The timing matters. As of the end of 2024, only 39% of the approximately 35,000 companies running SAP ECC — the legacy enterprise resource planning system most large organisations used before S/4HANA existed — had purchased S/4HANA transition licences, according to Gartner data cited in the press release. At the current migration pace, the analyst firm projects 17,000 companies, nearly half the installed base, will still be on SAP ECC when mainstream support ends in December 2027, CIO.com reported, citing Gartner. The window to migrate is closing. The offshore consulting model that once made large migrations affordable is itself being disrupted.

The offshore consulting boom was built on a single premise: geography creates price differences in human labour large enough to justify the coordination costs of remote delivery. Offshore cost arbitrage has declined from approximately 5:1 in 2006 to roughly 2:1 in 2025, according to Resulting IT's own analysis — a compression the company attributes to rising labour costs in traditional offshore markets and the increasing complexity of SAP implementations that require senior human judgement regardless of where the work is performed. AI agents running at near-zero marginal cost are arriving just as that gap is almost closed.

Stuart Browne, Resulting IT's founder and CEO, described the situation in a recent LinkedIn post as a structural failure, not a temporary one. The 186-task analysis underpinning the 59% claim was conducted by Resulting IT, not an independent third party — a meaningful limitation the company does not dispute. A company's own methodology measuring its own product's potential savings is a different category of evidence than a peer-reviewed benchmark or a named customer speaking on record about actual outcomes. Resulting IT says it has signed subscription clients, but none were available to describe what they actually experienced.

SAP migrations are notoriously resistant to easy automation. The long tail of customisation, legacy integrations, and business-specific configuration that trips up clean-sheet S/4HANA deployments is precisely the kind of work that has historically required senior human judgement. S4SensAI and ABAPBanZAI are new tools — their customer references are testimonials on a product page, not case studies with named contacts and published outcome data. Whether the 59% figure holds up when a real organisation with a real estate of custom code and legacy interfaces tries to execute a migration under deadline pressure is a different question.

What is not in doubt is the direction. The offshore consulting model that was supposed to make migration affordable has been getting less affordable for twenty years, and AI agents are arriving just as the math is becoming untenable. The 17,000 companies still on SAP ECC are the hostages in the middle — too expensive to migrate with the old model, increasingly within reach with the new one. Whether Resulting IT's specific tools are the answer or simply the most visible early example of what the market will eventually offer is the question that matters now.