Turns experience into advantage
Edge packages proven accelerators, connectors, process assets, models, agents, workflows, and industry expertise around a coherent business problem. You get a solution, not a box of disconnected parts.
Edge is valuable when the business problem is familiar but your context is unique. Reusable IP shortens discovery, cuts avoidable design work, improves quality, and frees your team to focus on the choices that make you different.
A good fit when you want to start from a proven solution instead of building from scratch. Edge solutions are organized by industry, platform, solution area, and asset type, and can be used on their own, bundled, or inside larger programs.
What's in Edge
Each Edge solution is built around a specific business problem, so you get a complete, customer-ready solution rather than a collection of parts. Examples include:
- Edge Semiconductor and High-Tech Solution for SAP S/4HANA: industry best practices and proven accelerators that reduce S/4HANA implementation risk and speed time to value for semiconductor and high-tech companies.
- Edge Rapid Deployment Accelerator for Kinaxis: accelerated Kinaxis Maestro deployment, with go-live in as little as 16 weeks where scope and readiness fit.
- Edge Forecast Scenario Accelerator for Kinaxis: prebuilt forecast scenarios and integration foundations that reduce setup and integration effort.
- Edge Data Readiness Accelerator: data assessment, cleansing, transformation, and integration for planning platforms and the wider ERP landscape.
- Connectors, reference architectures, diagnostics, and delivery accelerators packaged around specific business needs.
Reuse the pattern, adapt the solution
Behind every Edge solution is a library of proven content and components that we can adapt to your business:
- Industry planning content for aerospace and defense, consumer products, dairy, maintenance networks, process manufacturing, and semiconductors.
- Reusable components for integration, data readiness, testing, migration, supplier enablement, and workflows across SAP, Kinaxis, and connected environments.
- Operational accelerators for supply network validation, inventory and spend visibility, shipment tracking, and SAP user experiences.
What an Edge asset looks like
An Edge asset might be a diagnostic, reference architecture, connector, data model, process design, implementation accelerator, test pack, portal, or industry component. Every asset has a clear job, a known level of maturity, an accountable owner, and a defined place in the solution.
Example: preconfigured industry solutions
Without a proven starting point, industry programs often mean heavy customization and development, long implementation and adoption timelines, weak supplier and subcontractor integration, and long testing cycles. Preconfigured Edge industry solutions change that. Typical results include:
- 20–30% less implementation effort.
- Fit-to-standard options and alternative solutions where they make sense.
- Lower implementation risk.
- Integration included in the solution.
How value shows up
The value of starting from proven IP is simple: less time and money spent rebuilding what's already been solved. Teams mobilize faster, delivery risk and custom effort go down, test coverage improves, and the first usable capability arrives sooner. It's also easier to support over time, because it's built on patterns that are already well understood.
What leaders ask about Edge
Practical answers to the questions that often shape the first conversation.
How fast can an Edge accelerator get a planning platform live?+
With the Edge Rapid Deployment Accelerator for Kinaxis, go-live can happen in as little as 16 weeks where scope and readiness fit. Larger enterprise programs use flexible delivery models.
Will accelerators force us into a rigid template?+
No. Edge assets give you a proven starting point, and they're configured to your processes, data, and systems. The aim is to skip repeat work, not to impose a one-size-fits-all design.
Which industries do Edge solutions cover?+
Edge includes content and solutions for aerospace and defense, consumer products, dairy, maintenance networks, process manufacturing, semiconductors, and high-tech, among others.
Can Edge solutions work with the platforms we already have?+
Yes. Edge solutions are designed to work with SAP, Kinaxis, and the other systems in your landscape.