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Companies — The SAP Analytics Firm Deep-Dive

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As of 2026-10-10

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Firm landscape, what 9,332 published practices say about the market, commercial segmentation, relationship graph and implications for consultants, buyers and recruiters.

What's inside

21 chapters:

  1. Executive summary
  2. Part I — The population: what 11,525 records measure, and what they do not
  3. Part II — Market structure: the nine tiers and what each one sells
  4. Part III — Concentration measured: who publishes the hiring
  5. Part IV — The practice vocabulary: which products 11,525 firms choose to name
  6. Part V — Published signals: partner level, placement mode and who hires
  7. Part VI — Firm archetypes up close: five tiers, ten firms
  8. Part VII — Fee and margin architecture: what the client pays and what reaches the consultant
  9. Part VIII — Demand by vertical: the nine-industry mix
  10. Part IX — The vocabulary-exposure model: which firms still describe the estate they are replacing
  11. Part X — Retention: how engagements extend, and what ends them
  12. Part XI — Geography: where the firms are, and where the specialists are
  13. Part XII — Rate geography: the day-rate map a firm's location implies
  14. Part XIII — Forward scenarios 2026-2035: four forces and their evidence
  15. Part XIV — Risk register: what can go wrong for the firms and for those who rely on them
  16. Part XV — The decision layer: four gates from 11,525 firms to a defensible shortlist
  17. Part XVI — Engagement-form law: what the legal frame of a contract does to each channel of Part VII
  18. Methodology
  19. Sources
  20. Glossary
  21. Disclaimer

Study card

Edition
v2.1 (2026-10-10: SAP Connect 2026 (5-7 October) absorbed in a new subsection before Part II; no other content changed; 2026-10-06: Part XVI added — engagement-form law (temporary-agency cap, status tests, UK off-payroll); 2026-10-03: rebuilt on one directory snapshot — every mandate-flow share withdrawn and replaced by measured hiring, vocabulary and partner-level shares by tier and country; firm-level vocabulary-exposure model added; fee waterfall extended with a tenure × margin sensitivity grid; growth log, directory-internal risk register and generic decision boilerplate removed)
Audience
SAP analytics consultants (employee and freelance) choosing which firms to brief · end-customer buyers shortlisting delivery partners · recruiters and firm-side partners benchmarking their tier · PE and M&A practitioners sizing the boutique universe
Coverage
11,525 firms across 186 countries with material coverage, read as a market observatory · nine-tier taxonomy · hiring, partner-level and practice-vocabulary signals by tier and country · ten archetype firms · fee and margin waterfall · vertical demand mix · a firm-level vocabulary-exposure model · retention economics · geography and rate geography · 2026-2035 scenarios · risk register · a four-gate shortlisting method
Geography
worldwide for firm counts and signals; Europe for day-rate bands — the Middle East, North America, Latin America, Africa and Asia-Pacific carry no sourced band and are named as unpriced
Refresh cadence
quarterly, on the directory re-measurement and on SAP quarterly results
Sources cited
93

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