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Composable architecture: strategic advantage or expensive distraction?

Every SAP landscape conversation now includes composable architecture. But before you adopt it, you need to understand what it actually means for your programme, your integration strategy, and your ability to govern a more complex technology estate.

 

What this webinar covers

Limelight founder Gordon Kelly and integration specialists QuadCorps cut through the noise on composable architecture in a focused roundtable discussion covering:

  • What composable architecture actually is — beyond the buzzwords

  • Where it fits — and where it does not — in an SAP landscape

  • The integration reality — what changes when you move from monolithic to modular

  • Business benefits vs. technical ambition — how to tell the difference

  • Governance implications — who owns the architecture decisions, and how do you maintain control as complexity increases

 

Why this matters for your programme

Composable architecture is not just a technology decision. It is an enterprise architecture decision with governance, cost and programme implications. Adopting it without understanding the downstream impact on integration, testing, support and change management creates exactly the kind of complexity that derails S/4HANA programmes.

This is the kind of strategic technology question a Business Integrator helps you navigate — independent of your SI, whose architecture recommendations are shaped by what they can implement, not necessarily what is right for your organisation.

 

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Gordon Kelly

About the author

Gordon Kelly

Gordon has been involved in delivering major SAP Transformation Programmes for over 20 years. His journey began in 'Big 5 Consultancy' working with some of SAP's largest global clients. He then spent a number of years working in industry on the customer side of ERP delivery before returning to top tier consulting with a focus on delivering the next generation of SAP solutions for clients.

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