Onventis – AI Transformation Workshop for a B2B SaaS Company

Starting point

Onventis has been active in digital procurement and supplier management for around 25 years. Like many established software companies, it faced the question: how does AI change our own software development, the product, and the organization, and where do we start?

Solution

On March 25, 2026, together with Mimacom, we ran an AI transformation workshop with leaders from the management board, product management, and software engineering. Mimacom brought experience from applied AI and enterprise projects; we brought the perspective of agentic software development and the latest AI development tools.

The focus areas:

• The developer role is changing: less writing code, more defining context, orchestrating systems, and evaluating results
• Teams and processes change with it: team sizes, composition, and the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Domain knowledge as the key resource: missing documentation, scattered knowledge, and access to product and context data determine how well AI works
• AI in the product: first use cases, such as the idea of an AI agent around supplier risk
• Roadmap: prioritizing the next steps

Topics & methods

• Agentic software development and AI coding agents in the SDLC
• Role and team models for AI-assisted development
• Knowledge base strategy as a foundation for AI
• Use case prioritization by business impact and roadmap

Results & impact

• A shared picture across management, product, and engineering of how AI changes their own software development
• A clear roadmap for the next steps of the AI transformation
• First AI use cases for the product, captured as user stories
• Key insight: with long experience, a strong data foundation, and deep domain knowledge, Onventis is well positioned. The bottleneck is less the technology than knowledge, processes, and mindset