Ley-Line Advisory is a management and technology consultancy focused on SAP and the platforms that surround it. We help leadership teams turn ambition into delivered outcomes — from AI strategy and cloud ERP migration to integration, data and managed services.

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Following our tried and proven three-step plan is how we offer the best capabilities possible. First, people: delivering the people with the highest skills possible to ensure we get it right the first time. Second, solutions: designing and providing the solutions that matter and create quick, measurable value for the business issues of today, while considering those of tomorrow. Third, brand: a name you can trust that stands behind everything we do to offer quality solutions every time.

Each company is unique. One-size-fits-all approaches will never help your business reach its full potential. We deliver custom solutions, tailored to you — your industry, your culture, your one-of-a-kind challenges.

Ley-Line Advisory is a global IT services group providing information technology consulting and integration services — specialising in CxO support, mergers and acquisitions, infrastructure, SAP, Oracle and Microsoft cloud offerings. We have successfully partnered with Fortune 500 and Global 2000 clients to implement, enhance and support their technology platforms, and we pride ourselves on delivering the very best in quality, first time right, to clients around the world.

We were founded to fill a gap in the professional services market: niche, technology-enabled services delivered nimbly by small teams made up of the best experience. Our members span C-suite leaders from the largest global consultancies through to highly skilled technicians, with one common goal — get in, do it right, and be available to help with the next problem.

For more than 30 years our people have enabled large consulting organisations to define and deliver their capabilities. We now bring that expertise directly to clients, delivering more nimble, innovative solutions at lower cost with the same depth of experience.

Having delivered large and small programmes in 86 countries, we have learned that success is rarely about the size of the team. It is about the few individuals responsible for driving it — often not the top-tier leaders, but the one or two gems who can be found at any career level.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with international coverage from the United Kingdom and Israel, we can provide coverage wherever you need it.

The enterprise software conversation has moved from AI as an assistant to AI as a participant in the process. SAP’s vision of the autonomous enterprise places Joule at the front door of SAP — with specialised Joule Agents coordinating work across finance, procurement, supply chain, HR and customer experience, and the SAP Business AI Platform bringing together SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Business Data Cloud and the AI layer to build, connect and govern agents.

Value will not come from isolated tasks. It comes from orchestrating end-to-end processes on trusted, semantically rich data with the right permissions and governance. That is where we focus: identifying the scenarios that matter, preparing the data and clean core that agents depend on, and building the operating model and guardrails that let people and agents work together safely.

Our services span AI readiness and value assessment, Joule and Joule Agents enablement, custom agent and skill development with Joule Studio, data foundations on SAP Business Data Cloud, responsible-AI governance and AI-unit consumption tracking, and adoption and change management.

A clean core is the precondition for everything that follows — faster upgrades, lower technical debt and AI that can trust the process it runs in. We help clients move custom code and extensions out of the ERP core and onto SAP Business Technology Platform using SAP Build, ABAP Cloud and the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model, connected through SAP Integration Suite and event-driven patterns.

SAP Business Data Cloud provides the data foundation for analytics, planning and AI. We design data strategies and migration roadmaps from SAP BW and legacy warehouses, model governed data products, deliver unified planning with SAP Analytics Cloud, and connect the wider ecosystem through zero-copy data sharing.

Legacy strengths remain part of our toolkit: distributed real-time databases, API development, real-time processing, mobile enablement, big data and hybrid-enterprise integration.

SAP ECC 6.0 mainstream maintenance ends on 31 December 2027, with optional extended maintenance available at additional cost until the end of 2030. For eligible customers who commit to RISE with SAP, SAP ERP, private edition, transition option extends support for existing ECC systems while the move to SAP S/4HANA Cloud completes. Migrations typically take 18 to 36 months — so for most organisations the planning window is now.

There is no single right path. Greenfield (new implementation) suits organisations ready to reinvent on standard processes. Brownfield (system conversion) preserves history, configuration and investment. Selective data transition moves the data and processes that matter while retiring the rest. We help you choose — and then deliver — with RISE with SAP for S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition or GROW with SAP for S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.

Our approach combines process mining and redesign with SAP Signavio, application and architecture rationalisation with SAP LeanIX, data readiness and harmonisation, clean-core extension design on SAP BTP, and SAP’s AI-assisted migration tooling. Client-side programme management keeps business case, vendors and timeline under control from day one.

Ley-Line Advisory is a global IT services group providing information technology consulting and integration services, specialising in infrastructure, SAP, Oracle and Microsoft cloud offerings. We have partnered with Fortune 500 and Global 2000 clients to implement, enhance and support their technology platforms, and we pride ourselves on delivering the very best in quality, first time right, to clients around the world.

At the core sit the disciplines every enterprise platform depends on: ERP, infrastructure, migration, security and database administration.

Around the core runs the delivery lifecycle: strategy and requirements, select and implement, interface and integration, extend and build, customise and test, and maintain and support.

Four practices frame every engagement: orchestrate and collaborate, technology enablement, regulatory compliance and quality, and lifecycle management.

The outer ring shows the digital domains we work across: Digital Cloud, Digital IoT, Digital Enterprise and Digital Communications.

Foundational. Our foundational services cover the fundamentals of IT transformation. We bring a clean approach to defining the scope, developing the requirements, building the business case and driving the vendor selection process, and we have specialist capabilities for the IT complexities of merger and divestiture transactions.

Technology Enablement. We are masters at enabling your digital transformation.

Architecture & design: best-in-class thought leadership and design to architect a sustainable framework for your transformation, using SAP, cloud and associated technologies. Operational enablement: the tools, history and experience to design and manage your end-to-end IT operations, right the first time. Communications: with our partners we cover your WAN and LAN requirements, size and supply your future needs, and through our bridge service can often provide a more streamlined communications platform.

Infrastructure: technology evaluation and implementation are complicated and risky. Do you have a foundational technology roadmap and a secure cloud strategy? Do you know the gaps before you sign with software and cloud vendors? Our assessment, roadmap and evaluation services demystify the technology ecosystem. SAP implementation: upgrades, installations, performance assessments, migrations, the journey to S/4HANA and the cloud, and application lifecycle management with SAP Cloud ALM.

Solution Studios. The speed of change in IT keeps increasing, so we built a better way for clients to adopt it without re-architecting or rebuilding skills: focus studios that you can engage, source from or replicate as needed.

Digital Design & Build: extend and integrate ERP with SAP BTP, SAP Build, SAPUI5 and Fiori, plus .NET and C++ skills. ERP Implementation Support: an onshore and offshore SAP resource pool across the key functional and technical areas of S/4HANA, BW and Business Data Cloud, SuccessFactors and Ariba. AI, IoT & Cloud: leading work in AI and Joule, IoT, cloud, automation and RPA, helping clients understand and apply the latest digital technologies. Quality & Compliance: a core team with deep compliance experience in life sciences, aerospace and financial services.

Sustainment. Technology without sustainment will fail, incur a high cost and need replacing sooner, so we build a sustainable approach into everything we do. Our data security solutions are continually updated to reflect best practice and regulation such as the EU GDPR. Our IT protection, ERP monitoring and support follow the end-to-end business process chains:

Portfolio to Project (P2P): balance business initiatives and their value with IT capacity, skills and timelines. Requirement to Deploy (R2D): build what the business needs, when it needs it, with a measured outcome. Detect to Correct (D2C): anticipate and resolve production problems. Request to Fulfil (R2F): catalogue, request and fulfil services.

Market solutions. SAP: HANA and S/4HANA roadmaps, upgrade support, testing services, compliance and the move from Solution Manager to SAP Cloud ALM. Core: mobility, IoT design, cyber evaluations, fraud detection and data management. Infrastructure: hosting, cloud, digital and bandwidth management. We ramp up where client demand is growing, repeat what works as nimble offerings, and move every engagement towards sustainability.

CIO Advisory: strategic and advisory services that enable organisations to achieve their IT goals — aligning IT and corporate strategy, redesigning technology architecture and transforming IT operating models. We care about the whole business and how everything interrelates.

Digital Transformation: we measure, enable and improve IT effectiveness to increase the overall return on IT investment, optimising existing and new IT so it is both flexible and sustainable.

Mergers & Divestitures: our platform helps enterprises assess potential pitfalls and align strategies, operating models and IT assets — gaining a business-centric view of the IT transformation required across capabilities, applications, technology standards, processes and information.

Enterprise Architecture: guidance and rules for developing, representing and understanding architectures across technology and business boundaries, so the business realises value and service excellence from its IT investment.

ERP & IT Strategic Assessment: we review your key performance indicators, evaluate whether they are the most pertinent for your industry, and establish a baseline of current results to maximise ERP and IT return.

Vendor Selection: deep ERP expertise and experience of solution-provider strengths and weaknesses let us run a rigorous, fair evaluation of both software and integrator options.

Client-side Programme Management: SAP programmes can be daunting. We help manage the overall transformation, including business-case elaboration and management of third-party vendors.

Digital Build Studio: onshore and offshore teams working in agile mode on SAP BTP, ABAP Cloud, AI, IoT and automation — extending both on-premise and cloud capabilities.

Cyber Security: our secure-alert solution combines mobile applications, dashboards and low-power IoT devices that notify users when a security or other reportable event occurs — as a standalone system or an embedded OEM solution for real-time data platforms.

IT Lifecycle Management: prevention and reporting that enable sustainable applications in the cloud and on-premise, with a focus on testing, business process management and core implementation methods and tools.

We specialise in many technologies with a core focus on SAP. Cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, SAP and Oracle — across infrastructure, software, data, platform, testing and anything-as-a-service models.

Digital communications: enterprise application readiness, application performance testing, cloud and data-centre migration, planning and design, management and acquisition of telecoms, bandwidth and SLA management, application lifecycle and network security.

Digital IoT: Internet of Things and Web of Things, sensors, wireless technologies, authentication and encryption, and mobility.

Digital enterprise: enterprise software integration, implementation, tuning, mobile enablement, real-time processing, API development, big data, collaboration and the hybrid enterprise — across SAP (including S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, Ariba and Customer Experience), Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite and more.

Lower your spend and increase your services: we help you analyse your organisation’s bandwidth usage and can often enable a managed-service approach that lowers current spend by 30% or more — and communicate that spend to the business in meaningful, impactful language.

Every engagement starts with the right questions. Do you have confidence in the foundation you operate on? How do you ensure compliance while changing the landscape? Are you getting the value from your enterprise software and IT landscape? Are you enhancing your projects through collaboration? Can you drive value-led innovation with AI, IoT and cloud? Does an application lifecycle strategy make a difference? Is your supply chain ready for the future? Do you have an accurate understanding of total cost of ownership? Can you integrate today to make tomorrow? Is the cloud delivering value on the ground?

Skill. At the end of the day it is less about the company you choose and more about the individuals who serve you. We fill the gaps with niche expertise: a few people who make a real difference to the project and deliver demonstrable value.

Speed. Alongside the skills to deploy nimbly, speed is the next priority. Our teams deliver to a pre-defined time per task, so you pay for the value of the task rather than for one person being slower than another: a creative alternative to fixed-price and time-and-materials models.

Nimble. Cloud, digital, AI and IoT, and the maturity of client IT functions, call for projects delivered quickly and more frequently. We built our ley-lines to get in, deliver value and get out.

Confidence in your foundation. Application lifecycle management that increases business continuity, shortens time to market, improves efficiency, ensures compliance and demonstrates ROI: SAP Cloud ALM (and the move off Solution Manager 7.2), focused run, build and insight solutions, and seamless SAP and ServiceNow integration.

Compliance while the landscape changes. A single source of truth, business process documentation, automated testing, change analysis, process monitoring and effort estimation, so IT compliance matters, documentation adds value and test factories deliver value sooner.

Value from your enterprise software. IT value management: portfolio rationalisation, licence value management, contract negotiation and resource definition, with IT lifecycle management and application decommissioning.

Collaboration. Collaboration and social enablement that improves performance, integrates and communicates faster and engages customers better, with a collaboration hub into and out of SAP and shared-service solution centres.

Innovation with AI, IoT and cloud. IT-enabled R&D, faster time to market and measurable ROI, with SAP BTP and AI studios and seamless cloud enablement and integration.

Your supply chain. Real-time, IoT-enabled supply chains with automation and compliance built in, on an architecture that integrates SAP and ServiceNow.

Total cost of ownership. IT portfolio management, application rationalisation that drives TCO down, and accurate service management that runs IT like a factory.

Integrate today to make tomorrow. Cloud integration studios and focused run, build and insight solutions, integrating SAP with the rest of your landscape.

Value from the cloud. A cloud migration studio and focused solutions that deliver value on the ground, not just in the business case.

Ley-Line Advisory’s CEO was announced 2019 CEO of the Year for IT & Blockchain, and the firm was named a winner of the 2018 Best & Brightest award.

We have exhibited at and sponsored SAP Sapphire and the ASUG Annual Conference in Orlando, sharing daily recaps with our clients, and announced a strategic partnership with ITL Innovator’s Edge.

Today our conversations with clients centre on separating agentic value from AI hype, choosing the right route to S/4HANA before 2027, practising clean core with SAP BTP, getting data ready before migration, explaining AI-unit consumption to the board, and integrating acquisitions on a cloud ERP.

Our organisation is made up of diverse members, from C-suite leaders of large global consultancies through to highly skilled technicians, all with a common goal: get in, do it right, and be available to help with the next problem.

We are always interested in SAP S/4HANA functional and technical consultants, SAP BTP, integration and ABAP Cloud developers, data and AI engineers, solution and enterprise architects, programme, change and adoption leaders, and cyber security and managed-services specialists. Apply with your CV and the position you are interested in.

Ley-Line Advisory, 190 Bluegrass Valley, Alpharetta, GA 30005, United States.

Email info@leylineadvisory.com or call +1 (470) 485 3951. Book an appointment and a senior member of our team will be in touch.