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Aliter Consulting: helping SAP customers “run better, run secure”

Founded by Gary Jackson over 10 years ago, Aliter Consulting – a Bramble Hub partner – has its roots firmly in SAP. Gary remains actively involved in the business as CEO, continuing to work directly with clients where required. This founder-led, practitioner-driven approach underpins Aliter’s focus on long-term relationships, technical credibility, and delivery that stands up in complex, business-critical environments.

Growth and evolution of the Aliter team

Over the past few years, Aliter has experienced significant growth. The team has expanded from a small group of specialists to around 15 people, with further recruitment underway. This growth reflects both increased demand for SAP expertise and Aliter’s expansion from its strong foundations in SAP technical delivery into a broader set of strategic and operational services.

Whilst SAP technical services remain at the core of the business, Aliter now supports clients across a wider spectrum of services. This includes SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), Cloud ALM, SAP security services, architecture design, secure hosting, and managed support.

Trusted delivery across the public sector

Public sector organisations make up a significant part of Aliter’s client base. The team has delivered work across a wide range of public sector bodies, from local authorities to national organisations.

Although they cannot publicly name some of their key customers for security reasons, Aliter has developed published case studies with West Sussex County Council, demonstrating its ability to deliver tangible outcomes in complex, regulated SAP environments.

Aliter is frequently engaged as a technical authority or ‘critical friend’, providing assurance, stabilisation, and specialist input. Additionally, Aliter has supported UK police forces, large financial institutions, and other public sector organisations, often working alongside internal IT teams and prime suppliers.

Reducing technical debt and maximising SAP value

A defining feature of Aliter’s work is its focus on improving existing installations. Rather than advocating wholesale replacement, the team specialises in designing and modernising pre-existing SAP landscapes. This approach helps organisations reduce technical debt, improve performance and security, and maximise the return on their existing SAP investment.

This philosophy is captured in Aliter’s strapline, Run Better, Run Secure. It reflects a practical mindset shaped by years of delivery experience, recognising that SAP environments are often business-critical, deeply embedded, and not easily replaced.

Security, stability, and public sector confidence

Security and stability are particularly important in the public sector, where systems must remain reliable under pressure and comply with strict regulatory requirements. Aliter’s experience in SAP security, operational monitoring, and cloud-based SAP environments allows it to support organisations navigating these challenges with confidence.

By combining deep technical capability with an understanding of public sector operating realities, Aliter helps organisations modernise at a pace that balances innovation, continuity, and operational risk.

Trends in the SAP market

In a recently published review of 2025, Aliter identified a number of key trends, including:

  • From transformation to control: Organisations are prioritising operational maturity and stability over constant change; this aligns with Aliter’s SAP operations and ALM
  • Cloud as an operating model challenge: Cloud readiness is now about cost control, data discipline, and governance, supported by Aliter’s Cloud ALM, SAP RISE, and architecture
  • SAP BTP as a core platform: BTP has moved into the critical path for integration and extension, reinforced by Aliter’s BTP design, governance, and clean core-led
  • Operational maturity enables speed: Clear ownership, disciplined change, and visibility across landscapes are enabling faster, safer delivery through Aliter’s ALM and operating model
  • Security built into how SAP runs: Security is embedded into day-to-day SAP operations, reflecting Aliter’s SAP security, monitoring, and operational risk management

Looking ahead: adapting to a changing SAP landscape

Looking ahead, Aliter continues to adapt to a changing market. Whilst the business will remain strongly services-led, there is recognition that product offerings also have a role to play: the team is currently working on various new initiatives, such as SAP BTP applications and AI use cases developed through customer engagements. Alongside this, Aliter is investing in thought leadership and attending global SAP events, bringing together perspectives from across the leadership team. This commitment to sharing experience and learning reflects Aliter’s broader ambition to contribute meaningfully to the SAP and public sector communities. See Aliter’s partner page to learn more and contact them.

Proceed Group: specialists in SAP data archiving

“We only do a few things, but we do them very well.” (Robert Reuben, Joint MD, Proceed Group)

For more than two decades, Proceed Group has been helping organisations around the world take control of their SAP data landscapes. With deep specialism in archiving, decommissioning, content management and data compliance, the company has become one of the most trusted SAP data-management partners globally. Today, it works extensively across both the private and public sectors to support cloud migration, system optimisation and regulatory compliance.

A heritage built on SAP expertise

“We feel like we’re the specialist surgeon… if you’re going to have heart surgery on your SAP system, you’ll want someone who’s done it before”

Proceed Group was founded in 2001 by Nick Parkin, whose technology pedigree began in cryptography research. After developing expertise in ERPs and studying for an MBA, Nick saw a growing need for expertise in SAP data archiving, decommissioning, and content management in enterprise systems, which led him to found Proceed.

Since then, the company has grown into a global organisation with 14 offices and more than 900 customer projects delivered worldwide. Its consistent focus on SAP data management has established Proceed as a long-standing SAP Gold Partner, supported by a global SAP master services agreement.

The company has helped more than 140 organisations migrate to SAP S/4HANA, delivering over £180 million in cost savings through reduced data volumes. Its consultant base is one of the largest pools of SAP ILM specialists globally, giving customers confidence that even the most complex data challenges will be handled with precision.

What Proceed Group does

Proceed’s services span four key areas:

  1. SAP archiving and ILM

“Archiving helps customers shrink their main database right down… when you’re paying for cloud by the gigabyte, it’s an enormous saving.”

Archiving is essential for reducing data volumes, improving performance and enabling smoother moves to SAP S/4HANA. Proceed is recognised internationally for SAP Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) expertise, having helped customers reduce more than 18,000TB of data. For public-sector organisations, this means lower cloud costs, faster backups and improved compliance with statutory retention requirements.

  1. System decommissioning with Proceed Cella

“Proceed Cella lets customers retire old systems completely while still being able to report on and access historic data.

Many organisations continue to run costly legacy systems purely to retain access to historic data. Proceed’s decommissioning approach – powered by its SaaS platform, Proceed Cella – enables full retirement of these systems while maintaining intuitive, read-only access to data. Supporting both SAP and non-SAP systems, Proceed Cella can deliver up to 80% total cost-of-ownership savings.

  1. Content management

Unstructured documents, often overlooked, can significantly increase storage costs and slow down SAP systems. Proceed supports SAP content migrations, OpenText VIM, Extended ECM and SharePoint integration, helping customers reduce stored documents by up to 50% while improving workflow efficiency.

  1. GDPR and data protection

Despite GDPR being several years old, many organisations still face compliance gaps. Proceed assists with retention rules, ILM-based deletion and data privacy automation. Its tool, Proceed Automate, shortens compliance timescales dramatically by simplifying tasks such as redaction and deletion.

Supporting complex public-sector programmes

Proceed has a strong footprint in the UK public sector, supporting councils, non-departmental bodies and central government organisations. Gloucestershire County Council, for example, reduced its SAP data volume by 64% as part of its preparation for SAP HANA.

Many public bodies rely on Proceed to reduce the size of systems ahead of cloud migration or to decommission legacy environments that must be retained for audit reasons. As Joint Managing Director Robert Reuben explains:

“Many customers must keep old data for regulatory or audit reasons, but they don’t want the cost or risk of running ageing systems. We provide a smarter alternative – a secure, compliant, accessible place for that data without the burden of maintaining the legacy system.”

Specialist skills, long-term relationships

“We’re completely focused on our customers and partners. We want successful projects and long-term relationships.”

Proceed’s delivery model blends technical depth with a customer-first mindset. Its consultants bring niche expertise, enabling them to anticipate challenges and guide clients through every stage of complex programmes.

This combination of know-how and partnership-driven delivery means customers often return for subsequent phases of work, confident that their systems and data remain in safe hands.

Enabling organisations through every stage of their SAP journey

Proceed supports organisations facing a wide range of transformation drivers, including:

  • Moving SAP landscapes to hyperscalers
  • Migrating to SAP HANA or SAP S/4HANA
  • Consolidating systems after mergers
  • Addressing performance challenges
  • Meeting GDPR and data-protection obligations
  • Managing divestments where data must be separated

Each project begins with a clear assessment and business case, supported by proven processes and tools designed to make delivery efficient, predictable and compliant.

Looking ahead

With a growing team, a maturing suite of software tools and rising demand for its services, Proceed’s vision is to remain the worldwide partner of choice for SAP archiving, decommissioning and content management. Via our thin-prime business model, Bramble Hub can supply their SAP expertise and products to organisations across the UK public sector.

For more information about Proceed Group, please see their partner page.