Brightfield™ AI Value Before Go-Live
A New Model for SAP Modernization
Brightfield™ Powered by LCP AI
Brightfield™ is a new category of SAP modernization that combines AI-guided transformation, clean core acceleration, and practical business AI activation – delivering measurable value before go-live.
THE CHALLENGE
Traditional SAP Modernization Defers the Return – For Years
Enterprises approaching S/4HANA migration have long chosen between two well-established paths. Both share a critical limitation: the return on investment is deferred to the back end of the program. Enterprises invest heavily upfront, then wait — often two to four years — before realizing the business benefits that justified the program in the first place.
With ECC end-of-support date approaching and AI adoption accelerating, enterprises can no longer afford multi-year transformation programs that delay business outcomes.
THE SOLUTION
Brightfield™ AI First, Value Now.
Brightfield™ is a new AI-enabled modernization category in which AI is embedded across every phase of the program — from the initial value assessment through to go-live and ongoing managed operations.
Rather than treating AI as a post-go-live capability, Bightfield activates practical AI use cases on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) during the transformation itself — generating momentum, demonstrating return, and building the board-level confidence needed to sustain program investment.
The Evolution of SAP Transformation
Brightfield™ AI Guided. AI Now
Brightfield™ AI-guided transformation that delivers value before go-live.
LCP AI analyzes your environment in a business context, remediates technical debt, guides the fit to the standard path. Accelerates delivery with AI agents and activates business use cases now.
Greenfield: New S/4 HANA implementation with redesigned processes and clean data
Brownfield: System conversion of existing ECP environment to S/4 HANA, while retaining current processes and configurations.
Brownfield+ : Brownfield conversion with selective optimization cleanup, and targeted innovation.
Selective Data Transition: Combines elements of Greenfield and Brownfield to migrate chosen data processes and configurations.
Demand Forecasting
Automated Invoice Matching
Real-Time Profitability Analytics
Compliance Reporting
Predictive Maintenance
Intelligence Process Automation
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
How Brightfield™ Delivers
The Brightfield™ program is structured across two stages, providing immediate insight and sustained transformation from first engagement through to go-live and beyond.
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Brightfield™ Value Assessment
A targeted assessment engagement combining clean core SAP architecture analysis, SAP estate evaluation, and modernization readiness assessment. The engagement delivers a clear picture of technical debt, ERP complexity, and the areas requiring modernization ahead of transformation.
- Clean core SAP architecture analysis — where customizations are moved outside the core to enable faster upgrades and AI readiness
- SAP estate evaluation and technical debt quantification
- Modernization readiness assessment with prioritized recommendationsdemonstrating return, and building the board-level confidence needed to sustain program investment.
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Brightfield™ Transformation Program
A full S/4HANA transformation program delivering verified clean core SAP architecture, AI-ready SAP architecture, and activated AI use cases on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). Automated remediation and compliance monitoring run throughout — reducing manual effort at every stage. Lemongrass subject matter experts lead the program from assessment to go-live.
- Clean core architecture delivery with customizations moved outside the core
- AI use cases identified, validated, and deployed on BTP before migration completes
- Automated labor-intensive remediation and compliance monitoring
- Reporting continuity: estate impact analysis, data structure changes, and extractor remapping to the modernized data solution
- Lemongrass subject matter experts owning program delivery end-to-end
Only Brightfield™ Combines Continued Continuity with Immediate AI Value
AI-Guided Decisions
Faster Delivery
Business AI Before Go Live
Clean Core by Design