SAP Clean Core Strategies Unveiled: A Comprehensive Whitepaper

Explore how SAP's Clean Core Strategy can optimize your business. From preserving system integrity to defining your core functionalities, discover a holistic approach to refine your maintenance strategy. Make your technological backbone a source of ongoing value—read the whitepaper now!

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, innovation is your ticket to success and gaining a competitive edge. As business processes become increasingly complex, finding the right balance between standardization and customization is essential. SAP's Clean Core Strategy strikes this balance effectively.

Clean Core concept is a holistic approach to maintaining a robust technological foundation while nurturing innovation. This comprehensive whitepaper unveils the secrets to achieving a clean and efficient core for your enterprise.

The 'Why,' 'What,' and 'How' of Clean Core Strategy

At its core, the Clean Core approach encourages businesses to distinguish between essential operational functions and unique innovations. It is not a one-time action; it’s a philosophy that requires Governance, Extension guidelines, and ongoing custom code analysis and assessment.

The goal is to maintain an up-to-date, documented, unmodified, consistent, efficient, and cloud-compliant core.

SAP Clean Core strategy lets you enhance your business processes across applications and technologies throughout your enterprise. You can access various development environments and programming models by embracing the SAP Integration Suite and SAP Business Technology Platform. With an integrated platform offering reusable services enterprise-wide, you can foster innovation and sustain your competitive advantage.

Leveraging the SAP's Extensibility Tools

SAP provides various tools to meet your extensibility needs, from simple Key User extensions to Low Code / No Code solutions to complex professional extensions. These tools support hybrid scenarios that seamlessly connect on-premises and cloud solutions, allowing you to adapt and extend your SAP systems.

Explore the concept of side-by-side extension and its benefits with a Clean Core approach in our comprehensive whitepaper.

Key Advantages of the Clean Core Model?

Adopting a clean core strategy offers numerous benefits:

• Reduce TCO (Time, Effort & Cost): It leads to faster deployment, smoother upgrades, reduced test efforts, and lower developer adoption efforts. IT service providers can offer upgrade projects at a fixed price, and you eliminate costly maintenance for unused artifacts and data.
• Innovation at Market Speed: Clean core allows you to captivate innovation delivered by SAP and react swiftly to changing business requirements.
• Data to Value: Consistent data allows for reliable forecasting and predictions, enabling confident decisions.
• Cloud-Ready and Competitive: By moving to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, you become cloud-ready and competitive at any time.

How to Achieve a Clean Core?

Understanding the Clean Core Strategy is paramount for any organization leveraging SAP's enterprise solutions. But before you bring SAP's Clean Core Strategy to life, it is essential to clearly define what constitutes your business's 'core' and 'differentiators.'

It's more than just a list of important roles; it needs a complete analysis that includes everyone from department heads to C-level executives. The goal is to align these core activities with overarching business objectives.

Achieving a clean core involves several key principles:

Avoidance:?

Avoid custom code where it's not necessarily needed. Stay as close as possible to SAP standard processes while retaining the flexibility to adapt your business processes.

Awareness:?

Understand your technical debts and evaluate them regularly. Establish a binding governance framework for extensibility and document extensions that do not follow clear core principles.

Cloud Compliant Extensions:?

Leverage the full potential of extensions such as In-App, Side-by-Side, or Hybrid Extensions. Minimize or avoid classic extensions, apply a zero-modification policy, and decouple extensions for upgrade stability.

Custom Extensions:?

Custom extensions should not break an upgrade, and upgrades should not break an extension. Use public APIs (both local and remote) and build/request missing APIs from SAP to decouple your extensions.

To ensure a future-ready and holistically optimized Clean Core setup, consider partnering with seasoned experts like Crave InfoTech. We specialize in SAP and SAP BTP upgrades and offer custom solutions for your business growth. We can help you implement a clean core strategy to avoid technical debt and focus on new product development.?

Download the Whitepaper Now and embark on a Journey Toward Excellence

As businesses evolve, the SAP Clean Core Strategy equips you to navigate the complex terrain of customization and standardization. This whitepaper is not just a collection of words; it's a roadmap to unlocking their true potential and achieving long-term sustainable success. It's the blueprint to ensure that your SAP systems are not just operational but continually optimized to meet your evolving business needs.?

Don't settle for mediocrity when excellence is within reach. Download the whitepaper, and let's transform your business together.