Technology Acceleration

Organizations today face increasing pressure to modernize outdated IT systems, integrate digital technologies and leverage AI to remain competitive. Yet many struggle with fragmented data landscapes, rising cybersecurity risks and the complexity of aligning digital initiatives with core business goals. The rapid pace of technological change, coupled with talent shortages and legacy infrastructure, often slows transformation efforts. At the same time, leaders must ensure scalability, compliance and cost-efficiency while navigating uncertainty and growing stakeholder expectations around innovation and sustainability of aligning digital initiatives with core business goals. The rapid pace of technological change, coupled with talent shortages and legacy infrastructure, often slows transformation efforts. At the same time, leaders must ensure scalability, compliance, and cost-efficiency while navigating uncertainty and growing stakeholder expectations around innovation and sustainability.

Up to 20%

improvement in supply chain performance

Up to 40%

quality improvement

Up to 25%

reduction in IT system downtime

Overview

As technology reshapes industries at an accelerating pace, many organizations struggle to keep up with the demands of IT transformation. Outdated systems hinder the ability to adopt digital solutions and scale advanced technologies like AI and analytics. Fragmented data landscapes, inconsistent data quality and a lack of governance make it difficult to become truly data-driven. At the same time, expanding digital ecosystems introduce new cybersecurity vulnerabilities and increase regulatory complexity. Misalignment between business strategy and IT often slows transformation efforts, especially when change management and cross-functional coordination are lacking. These issues are further compounded by a global shortage of digital and AI talent, mounting cost pressures and the need to ensure that transformation initiatives are secure, compliant and sustainable over the long term.

Why Horváth

Horváth is a trusted partner for organizations navigating complex IT transformation, digitalization and AI adoption. With deep expertise at the intersection of strategy, technology and operations, the company brings a holistic approach that bridges business goals with technical execution. Consultants combine hands-on implementation experience with industry-leading methods in data strategy, AI integration and digital operating models. Working side-by-side with clients to deliver measurable impact—ensuring that transformation initiatives are not only innovative, but also scalable, secure and aligned with long-term value creation.

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IT transformation

IT transformation is critical for organizations aiming to stay competitive in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. By modernizing legacy systems and embracing new technologies, companies can enhance operational efficiency, improve agility and unlock new opportunities for growth. IT transformation enables businesses to better leverage data, adopt AI and automation and deliver more personalized customer experiences. It also ensures scalability, strengthens cybersecurity, and supports long-term innovation—allowing organizations to respond more quickly to market changes and achieve sustainable success.

Key solution components:

Legacy system modernization: Transform outdated IT infrastructures by migrating to cloud-based platforms, enhancing scalability and integrating modern technologies to improve efficiency and performance.
Digital operating models: Design and implement digital strategies that align business objectives with IT capabilities, enabling seamless operations, faster decision-making and enhanced customer experiences.
AI & advanced analytics integration: Leverage AI and machine learning to automate processes, gain predictive insights and drive smarter decision-making across the business.
Data governance & management: Establish robust data governance frameworks to ensure data quality, compliance and security, while enabling data-driven decision-making and business intelligence.
Cybersecurity & risk management: Implement advanced cybersecurity protocols and risk management frameworks to safeguard digital assets, comply with regulations and protect against emerging threats.
Agile transformation: Guide organizations through the adoption of Agile methodologies to increase development speed, improve collaboration and accelerate time-to-market for digital initiatives.
IT cost optimization: Optimize IT spending through process improvements, cloud cost management and strategic sourcing, ensuring resources are allocated efficiently and investments deliver maximum value.

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Digital & AI

Digital technologies and AI are reshaping how businesses operate, innovate and engage with customers. By harnessing the power of AI, organizations can automate processes, gain predictive insights and make smarter, data-driven decisions. Digital transformation, paired with AI, enhances efficiency, drives innovation and enables personalized customer experiences at scale. As companies increasingly adopt these technologies, they unlock new growth opportunities, improve operational agility and stay competitive in an ever-evolving market landscape.

Key solution components:

Predictive analytics: Leverage AI and machine learning models to predict trends, customer behavior and demand patterns, empowering businesses to make proactive decisions and improve forecasting accuracy.
Natural language processing (NLP): Utilize NLP technologies to enhance customer interactions, automate content generation and extract actionable insights from large volumes of unstructured data like text and speech.
AI-driven personalization: Deliver personalized customer experiences by analyzing data and behavior patterns with AI, allowing for more tailored offerings and increased customer satisfaction.
Data lakes & advanced data integration: Create centralized, scalable data storage systems (data lakes) to integrate, analyze and derive insights from structured and unstructured data, enhancing business intelligence capabilities.
Digital twin technology: Develop digital replicas of physical assets or processes using real-time data, enabling better monitoring, simulation and optimization of operations in various industries like manufacturing and logistics.
AI-enhanced cybersecurity: Use AI to detect and respond to security threats in real-time, providing adaptive security solutions that continuously evolve to meet new challenges in the digital landscape.
AI for supply chain optimization: Apply AI and machine learning to improve supply chain planning, forecasting and inventory management, resulting in enhanced operational efficiency and cost savings.

Case studies/testimonials

Manufacturing

Supplements & Nutrition

WHO
Global technology leader in optics and optoelectronics, renowned for precision lenses, imaging systems and scientific instruments.

WHAT
The company set the goal to migrate from SAP ECC to SAP S/4 HANA due to systems limitations to address market requirements.

HOW
The project was initiated with comprehensive project scoping and project management setup. Areas supported throughout the project were business model, steering model, master data management, IT configuration and proof of concept.

WHO
Leading natural health brand offering high-quality vitamins, supplements and herbal remedies to support overall wellness and vitality.

WHAT
The company was in the beginning stages of planning an R/3 to S/4 transformation. To get a head start, the FiCo teams wanted to understand what would be different between the two systems and how they might be able to improve their processes by leveraging new capabilities.

HOW
We conducted a series of workshops to highlight the new features of S/4HANA as they related to the company’s current use cases of R/3. We also introduced new features and technologies that would become available to them with S/4HANA and investigated the effort and potential payoff associated with investing in each one.

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