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Matt Aucella Sells the Part of an SAP Transformation Nobody Wants to Think About
After years selling technology from the classroom to the corporate core, smartShift’s sales chief has learned where big transformations get stuck: in the old code everyone depends on and nobody wants to touch.
SAP
The 54-year-old German software maker quietly runs the plumbing of global business - and it is betting its next chapter on AI it calls Joule.
apiphani
apiphani is a Boston-based, AI-native managed services company that keeps mission-critical enterprise applications - especially complex SAP and Oracle environments - running without downtime. Instead of the labor-arbitrage model used by large global systems integrators, apiphani pairs small teams of senior engineers with its proprietary observability platform, luumen, and its Deep Automation technology to detect and resolve issues before users notice them. Founded in 2018 and led by CEO Justin Folkers, the company reports 100% production uptime across its clients for more than two years and raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners in October 2025.
PrideVel Consulting LLC
PrideVel Consulting LLC is a Naperville, Illinois-based IT services and consulting firm that has spent two decades as an SAP Services Partner and a global professional-services partner for Cisco. The company helps mid-size and large North American enterprises run S/4HANA and SAP HANA migrations, cloud infrastructure, IoT and mobile projects, leaning on proprietary automation (ABAP optimization, BW migration) and a 'Rapid Business Solutions' plus Design Thinking method it says cuts cost and time-to-market by roughly 40%. More recently PrideVel has repositioned its website around 'The Control Layer for Enterprise AI,' extending its SAP-and-cloud heritage toward AI governance and chatbots.