On behalf of Nova Intelligence, Emma Qian (CEO) and Alexander Zeier (Chief Scientist) recently had the privilege of delivering a bonus keynote at the Next Generation SAP Enterprise Architect Learning Forum in Newtown Square, PA, an event graciously hosted by Paul Kurchina.
This conference brought together top industry leaders, enterprise architects, and technology enthusiasts with 400+ attendees from 13 countries. The Nova Intelligence team was honored to share our experiences, showcase how AI-driven systems can tackle the most pressing SAP challenges, and delve into the exciting work we’re doing around clean core transformations and S/4HANA migrations.
Our goal with this keynote was to inspire transformations—it was centered around the personal journey of our co-founders, Emma and Alexander, and how their experiences shaped our vision for AI-driven enterprise software.
At Nova Intelligence, our founding team unites unique backgrounds to tackle the most pressing and complex enterprise software problems with cutting-edge AI.
Alexander, Chief Scientist Officer, has devoted more than three decades to SAP and enterprise architecture. He worked alongside Hasso Plattner in developing the earliest foundations of SAP HANA and later served as CTO of Accenture’s SAP Business Group—overseeing large-scale S/4HANA projects around the globe. Alexander repeatedly heard CIOs voice the same challenges: painstaking code rewrites, tangled data landscapes, and migration efforts that stretched on for years.
While Alexander’s roots are firmly in SAP, Emma, CEO, comes from a different world. She is an AI researcher, who previously conducted research at Google DeepMind, tackling advanced AI for solving math problems. She later founded a startup centered on foundational models.
Nova Intelligence was born when these two paths converged. Alexander and Emma's shared conviction was that specialized AI agents can automate the bulk of manual work currently slowing down SAP modernization, significantly cutting both costs and time.
The keynote speaker, Rishad, framed the conference around a striking prediction: over the next few years, AI will deliver more change to enterprise technology than we’ve seen in the previous five decades. At Nova Intelligence, we share that sense of urgency and possibility.
In the SAP world, breakthroughs in intelligence hold tremendous promise. Many organizations grapple with thousands—even millions—of lines of custom code. Historically, analyzing, refactoring, and modernizing these extensive codebases was a massive undertaking performed manually by teams of consultants. Not only is this resource-intensive, but it also presents significant risk—errors in code rewrites can cost millions and derail go-live dates.
This insight led to Nova Intelligence's focus on building AI agents designed specifically for SAP landscapes — supporting teams across the full lifecycle, from design and development to testing and operations. S/4HANA migrations and Clean Core transformations are some of the most acute use cases today, but the same platform helps SAP teams with day-to-day development, documentation, production issue resolution, and more. Rather than providing incremental developer tools, our AI agents operate as autonomous systems that can analyze, refactor, and validate large codebases with minimal human oversight. Customers using Nova today are already seeing more than 3x productivity gains across their SAP work, and the platform continues to improve with each iteration.
For those who attended the Next Generation SAP Enterprise Architect Learning Forum, the energy and engagement around AI's role in enterprise software was incredible. AI is quickly becoming fundamental to how enterprises reduce technical debt and transform core systems — particularly within the SAP ecosystem.
At Nova Intelligence, we're continuing to advance our agentic platform to help SAP teams work faster across the full lifecycle. With each iteration, we aim to reduce the manual burden on SAP project teams, accelerate timelines, and free businesses to focus on innovation.
We extend our gratitude to Paul Kurchina for hosting a forum that sparked meaningful conversations about AI's transformative impact on SAP.
Whether you're an SAP enterprise architect, a CIO overseeing a complex S/4HANA migration, or simply curious about how AI can reshape enterprise technology, we invite you to join us.
Book a demo or contact us at contact@novaintelligence.com to learn how Nova Intelligence can accelerate your journey to a clean, modern SAP architecture.