Co-innovation means your people and ours design the future together. You bring knowledge of your business; we bring SAP best practice and experience from 210+ projects.
You know your business. We know SAP. The best process comes from both.
You bring
- How your business really works
- What makes you different
- The people who will use the system
We bring
- SAP best practice
- Experience from 210+ projects
- Our own tools, apps and accelerators
Four steps, repeated with every SAP release
What happens at each step
Choose a step to see what your team does, what we do and what you get.
Step 1: Discover
Workshops and system data show how the process runs today and where it loses time and money.
Your team
- Process owners and the people who run the process
- Access to system data where it helps
INK
- Process experts who run the workshops
- Process mining on your real system data
You get: A current-state map, with the leaks and quick wins marked
- SAP Signavio
- Process mining
- Workshops
Process Discovery & Mining → · Business Process Reengineering →
Step 2: Co-design
We design the new process on SAP best practice, and agree with you which differences are worth keeping.
Your team
- Decisions on what makes your business different
- Key users who test the design
INK
- SAP best practice and experience from 210+ projects
- Fit-to-standard workshops on a live SAP system
You get: A future-state design, with a clear decision for every gap
- Fit-to-standard
- SAP best practices
- Gap log
Step 3: Build
We configure SAP, build clean-core extensions on SAP BTP and test with your users.
Your team
- Users who test real scenarios
- Sign-off at each quality gate
INK
- Configuration and clean-core extensions on SAP BTP
- Automated testing and an INK quality gate at every phase
You get: A working system, tested by your users
- SAP Activate
- SAP BTP
- Test automation
SAP Development & Clean Core → · Quality Engineering & Test Automation →
Step 4: Scale
We roll out to more sites and processes, and keep improving with every SAP release.
Your team
- Priorities for the next sites and processes
- Feedback from users
INK
- Rollouts site by site
- Release management and continuous improvement with iCare AMS
You get: An improvement roadmap, and a system that gets better with every release
- iCare AMS
- Release management
- Adoption tracking
Why it works better
Traditional delivery
- Requirements written once and handed over
- Custom code for every difference
- Users see the system at the end
- Improvement stops at go-live
Co-innovation with INK
- The process designed together, on real data
- SAP standard first, differences kept only where they add value
- Users test as the system is built
- Improvement continues with every SAP release
The result clients see: users adopt SAP 3× faster than the industry average.
Where co-innovation goes further
Co-Innovation Lab
Test a new idea on SAP with our team before you commit. 20+ SAP proofs of concept delivered.
Explore →AI Agents for SAP
Agents that read and act on live SAP data, with you in control.
Explore →Our own apps
8+ INK apps certified on the SAP Store, built on SAP BTP.
Explore →Start here, free
Process Discovery Workshop
Our process experts and your team map one process, such as order-to-cash or procure-to-pay, and find where it loses time and money.
- Who attends: the process owner and 3–5 people who run it
- You take away: a current-state map, a list of quick wins and a future-state sketch
- Format: on-site or online
The Co-Innovation Lab
Bring us a business problem. Leave with a working prototype. Most good ideas never get past a slide. In the INK Co-Innovation Lab, your people and our engineers build the idea for real, on your own data, and test it with your users. In a few weeks you know whether it works, what it is worth and how to scale it.
4–6 weeks
from business problem to working prototype
Your data
built and tested with your real users
Clean core
built beside SAP on SAP BTP, so upgrades stay simple
One team
your process experts and INK engineers, side by side
Bring us a challenge like these
If it slows your people down or costs you money, it is a good lab candidate.
A busy process that needs an AI agent
Joule and custom AI agents that answer questions, draft documents and take action inside SAP.
An approval that takes too long
Automate routing, reminders and decisions with SAP Build Process Automation.
Numbers leaders don’t trust
One version of the truth on SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Business Data Cloud.
Frontline teams working on paper
Simple mobile apps for shift workers, field staff and site teams.
A system that doesn’t talk to SAP
Connect it with SAP Integration Suite, APIs and events.
A compliance check done by hand
Rules, checks and audit trails that run automatically.
How a lab sprint runs
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Frame
We agree the problem, how success will be measured, the users and the data.
You get: Problem statement and success measures
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Build
Short sprints with a demo every week. You steer; we build.
You get: A working prototype on your data
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Prove
Your users test it in real scenarios, and we measure the result.
You get: User feedback and measured results
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Decide
Scale it, change it or stop it, with the facts in front of you.
You get: Business case and roadmap to production
What you leave with
- A working prototype on your own data
- A recorded demo and your users’ feedback
- A business case with the effort and cost to scale
- A clean-core architecture your IT team can approve
- A roadmap from prototype to production
Who is in the room
Your team
- Process owner
- Two or three key users
- An IT contact
INK team
- Solution architect
- Process consultant
- BTP and AI developers
- UX designer
Inside the lab
- SAP BTP
- SAP Build
- Joule & SAP Business AI
- SAP Integration Suite
- SAP Analytics Cloud
- SAP Business Data Cloud
- SAP Signavio
- Fiori & UI5
- Java & Node.js
From lab to product
The best ideas don’t stop at a prototype. They go live for you, and some become INK accelerators that other clients use.
- Idea
- Prototype
- Pilot
- Rollout
Built in the lab · proven in a pilot · rolled out with our Development Factory and supported by iCare AMS
INK products built on the same platform
INK apps on the SAP Store
8+ apps certified on the SAP Store, from shift rostering to visa and permit tracking.
Learn more →Finance & People Intelligence
Ready-made dashboards for the CFO and CHRO on SAP Analytics Cloud.
Learn more →AI Agents for SAP
AI agents that work inside your SAP processes.
Learn more →Lab stories
Add 3–4 real lab stories: the problem · the prototype · the result · what it became.
Have a problem worth solving?
Tell us about it in a 30-minute call. We’ll tell you honestly whether it’s a lab candidate.
Frequently asked questions
What is co-innovation?
Your people and ours design the new process together. You bring knowledge of your business; we bring SAP best practice and experience from 210+ projects.
What do we get at each step?
A current-state map, a future-state design, a working system and an improvement roadmap.
How do we start?
With a free Process Discovery Workshop: we map one process with your team, and you keep the map whatever you decide next.
Do we need to be on S/4HANA to use the lab?
No. We build on SAP BTP, which connects to SAP ECC, S/4HANA, SAP Cloud ERP and SuccessFactors, and to non-SAP systems through SAP Integration Suite.
How much of our team's time does it take?
A process owner and two or three key users for the weekly demos and user testing, and an IT contact for access to systems and data.
What happens if the prototype works?
We agree a roadmap to production. Our Development Factory builds it out and iCare AMS supports it after go-live.
What if the idea doesn't work?
That is a useful result too. You find out in weeks, with a small investment, instead of after a full project.
Can the lab run at our site?
Yes. We run labs on site, remotely, or as a mix of both.