Professional services

Grow and scale your professional services enterprise, ensuring unmatched service and optimised operations.
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Expand your services business with unified applications, AI, and trusted data.

Deliver successful project outcomes and exceptional service experience for your clients using one integrated platform.

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Our professional services solutions can help you:

  • Offer excellent service with integration across the professional services value chain.

  • Maximise project impact and skills utilisation through AI-driven insights.

  • Optimise profitability with real-time data integration between projects and finance.

  • Monetize service delivery with flexible automated billing and invoicing.

  • Improve service delivery by streamlining project and billing management.  

Cultivate new revenue models

Enable efficient, scalable, and agile execution of new strategies to meet client demand and seize growth opportunities.

Boost service excellence

Enhance and automate service delivery and operations using AI insights and agents to gain a competitive edge and drive profitability.

Strategically manage your workforce

Optimise project resources using AI-powered advanced skills matching. Balance demand with people’s skills, experience history, and availability, to find the right fit.

Explore how professional services solutions from SAP and partners can help your company run better

Connect your entire services business—from selling and planning, to staffing, to delivery and billing.

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Automate bidding for professional services

Enhance the bidding and sales process with integrated professional services automation that:

  • Connects sales and delivery teams using a single platform for seamless project handover.

  • Improves bid and no-bid decision-making using insights from past win-loss data.

  • Increases wins with AI-driven pricing optimisation.

  • Efficiently tracks and manages leads and opportunities in a centralised location.

  • Provides a 360-degree view of opportunities, stakeholders, and interactions.  

SAP APPLICATION

Customer relationship management

Streamline and automate critical selling processes and empower account managers with AI-based recommendations.

SAP APPLICATION

Quote-to-cash management

Optimise sales and increase customer satisfaction with tools to manage billing in real time, from pre-billing to revenue management.

SAP APPLICATION

Resource operations planning

Increase efficiency using standardised processes and preconfigured industry best practices.

SAP APPLICATION

Transformative analytics and AI

Make better decisions using a single source of truth from a unified data analytics and enterprise planning solution.

PARTNER APPLICATION

Intelligent Project Pricing & Estimating

Make project-based pricing and estimation more efficient with sophisticated analytics based on actual historical performance.

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Staffing and utilisation management

Connect team members on a unified project and resource management platform to:

  • Staff the right people for projects with a single source of truth for skills and experience.

  • Understand future staffing needs using data insights to identify skill gaps.

  • Improve billable utilisation with real-time access to capacity data.

SAP APPLICATION

Enterprise resource planning

Reduce manual effort and errors with automation for routine tasks like staffing, timesheet management, and project tracking.

SAP APPLICATION

Human capital management

Match resource needs to employee profiles using AI-driven staffing tools and assistants.

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Contractor management

Increase subcontractor capacity and manage fluctuating workloads by monitoring costs and productivity in real time.

PARTNER APPLICATION

ProFinda Enterprise Workforce Optimisation Platform

Match people to projects based on skills, economics, and employee preferences, using AI-powered resourcing and staffing tools.

PARTNER APPLICATION

Whoz Global Workforce Optimisation Platform

Improve workforce optimisation with an AI-powered platform for managing skill mapping, planning, and performance forecasting.

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Real-time work-in-progress tracking

Strategically manage resources with an integrated suite that allows you to:

  • Improve project outcomes with auditable, clear SOW-based work in progress.

  • Reduce write-offs with time and expense tracking in one connected system.

  • Protect margins and reduce scope creep through robust change request management.

  • Increase project success rates using analytics to identify hidden execution risks.

SAP APPLICATION

Travel and expense management

Increase policy compliance and financial integrity throughout the expense lifecycle with built-in controls and AI-supported auditing.

SAP APPLICATION

Solution order management

Simplify processes, from creating solution orders to delivering services, using a unified solution for invoicing and controlling.

SAP APPLICATION

Entitlement management

Handle complex entitlement scenarios using automated processes and dynamic authorisation management.

SAP APPLICATION

Service excellence

Optimise customer service via omnichannel support, intuitive case management, and seamless front-to-back processes.

SOLUTION EXTENSION

SAP Convergent Mediation

Increase revenue visibility and reduce leakage with tools to translate usage data into bills and invoices in real time.

PARTNER APPLICATION

Icertis Contract Intelligence for SAP Ariba

Reduce risk, shorten timelines, and maximise value with automated contract creation, approval, and compliance tracking.

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Automated billing management

Manage billing in real time, from pre-billing to revenue management with integrated solutions to:

  • Bill accurately and collect faster using real time data insights and automated processes.

  • Reduce days sales outstanding with unified project management and finance processes. 

  • Improve billing by combining and aggregating data from multiple sources into a single stream.

  • Create billing plans that automatically generate invoices at predefined milestones.   

SAP APPLICATION

Accounts receivable optimisation

Optimise working capital, improve customer experience, and flag risky accounts with centralised, automated receivables management.

SAP APPLICATION

Subscription billing

Effortlessly set up and manage billing for subscription-based services with automation.

SAP APPLICATION

Quote-to-cash management

Unlock recurring revenue, take offerings to market quickly, and monetise usage data with end-to-end automation from sales to invoicing.

SAP APPLICATION

Profitability analysis

Reduce revenue leakage with analytics to identify potential unbilled services, missed milestones, and incorrect billing.

PARTNER APPLICATION

Infosys Billing Management Solution

Generate timely bills, minimise errors, and reduce revenue leakage with sophisticated time, expense, and bill management tools.

See how customers are succeeding with SAP solutions for professional services

Resources

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Four scenarios for the future of AI and finance

Discover the four very different ways artificial intelligence will affect finance and how leaders should prepare.

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Consulting firms accelerating projects with AI

Learn how consulting firms are adopting AI to boost efficiency, accuracy, and client value.

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Professional services firms target tech talent

Learn why midsize professional services organisations are cautiously pursuing AI investments, according to an SAP Insights survey.

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Connect with SAP industry experts

Get advice on how to drive cost-effective transformation and sustainable growth with our innovative industry solutions.

Explore packages and pricing

Choose modular, AI-enabled solutions tailored to your business priorities—finance, supply chain, HR, procurement, or sales—and grow at your pace.

See what’s ahead with SAP road maps

Browse upcoming strategies and advancements across SAP products and industries—and get the insight you need to plan your strategy with confidence.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises, Robert Anderson, Johan Jartelius, Tomas Kienast, Sam Grinter, Denis Torii, Chaithanya Paradarami, 13 October 2025.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Source-to-Pay Suites, Micky Keck, Kaitlynn Sommers, Balaji Abbabatulla, Cian Curtin, Lynne Phelan, Chaithanya Paradarami, Martin Shreffler, 24 March 2025.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Integration Platform as a Service, Andrew Humphreys, Andrew Comes, Keith Guttridge, Allan Wilkins, 19 May 2025.

 

 

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