Customer Story
How a low-code app platform chose Akka over Node.js to power intelligent automation across manufacturing, pharma, and automotive.
Simplifier built its AI platform on Akka to help 300+ SAP enterprises deploy intelligent automation across 5,000+ optimized workflows — with zero downtime, 2,000 concurrent sessions, and the performance to handle mission-critical AI workloads.
Akka ROI Scorecard
AI-powered application types deployed across manufacturing, pharma, and automotive.
downtime — serving 100+ SAP enterprise customers with mission-critical reliability.
users supported with thousands of concurrent sessions in production.
Business outcome: millions of Euros in ARR from a differentiated agentic AI platform for SAP enterprises.
Enterprises running SAP face a growing challenge: they need to deploy AI-powered automation and intelligent workflows across complex landscapes — manufacturing, pharma, automotive — but their legacy systems weren’t designed for it. With more than 1,000 different application types to support, Simplifier needed a foundation that could integrate with SAP environments, meet stringent EU data security and compliance requirements, and deliver 24/7 uptime for mission-critical AI workloads.
The team investigated Node.js but found security, availability, and performance issues that made it unsuitable for the kind of enterprise-grade AI processing their customers demand.
Akka delivered where Node.js could not: concurrency and parallelism for continuous AI processing and streaming of multiple requests, fault tolerance for high-performance systems with low latency, and abstraction of backend complexity so the team could focus on building intelligent capabilities.
“When competing for business, Akka provides Simplifier with a key competitive differentiator compared to other platform options,” says Christian Kleinschroth, CTO.
Akka’s architecture gives Simplifier the foundation to run AI agents that interact with SAP systems in real time. One automotive customer continuously transfers 1GB per hour through the platform — the kind of sustained throughput that requires reliable streaming and backpressure management for AI-driven data pipelines.
Speed to production. 1,000+ application types and 5,000+ orchestrated workflows deployed across diverse industries, enabling SAP enterprises to adopt AI-powered automation tailored to their specific requirements.
Scale. 2,000+ concurrent user sessions in production, with load tests supporting 100,000+ users running AI workloads simultaneously.
Cost to operate. Zero downtime serving 300+ customers — the platform handles mission-critical AI workloads without interruption.
Business impact. Millions of Euros annually in ARR, with Akka powering a differentiated agentic AI platform that helps SAP enterprises modernize with intelligent automation.
Simplifier is already building the agentic future: their platform enables SAP enterprises to deploy AI agents that autonomously monitor, transform, and act on data across complex enterprise environments. On the Akka Agentic AI Platform, each customer integration becomes a governed agent that monitors SAP data flows, detects schema changes, and adapts transformation logic autonomously.
These enterprise AI agents can coordinate across Simplifier’s customer base, sharing learned patterns about SAP system behaviors, optimizing data pipelines, and enabling intelligent decision-making at scale. With durable state and event sourcing, every AI decision is auditable for compliance — critical for regulated industries like pharma and automotive. Enterprises build on the Akka Agentic AI Platform directly, or have a system delivered and operated through Akka Specify.
