“Clean core. . . to sum it up is the one key puzzle piece . . . to be an agile intelligent enterprise.”
- Markus Albrecht, Adoption Services Center General Manager for SAP BTP
Changing business processes over several months isn’t good enough anymore. There’s now heightened focus on the concept of 'clean core ERP,' signaling the demand for software that’s both robust and agile enough to quickly adapt to evolving needs. However, in today's fast-evolving business landscape, organizations struggle to maintain agility and innovation speed for system upgrades. How can you overcome this significant challenge? How can you benefit from the latest innovations with minimal effort? The answer is by implementing a more standardized, process oriented approach for system updates and this is where a clean core strategy becomes vital.
In SAP Enterprise Support, we provide expert guidance to implement a clean core strategy, helping you become agile, future-proof, and competitive. We've compiled resources to assist you. But before diving into those, let's briefly recap what clean core entails.
Clean Core Explained
According to Markus Albrecht, Adoption Services Center General Manager for SAP BTP, SAP customers across various industries, whether in retail or high-tech, must have the ability to adjust, react, and swiftly switch business models. A clean core offers two primary benefits in this context: it enables faster innovation within an SAP-centric landscape. Once you've adopted a clean core mindset, this approach can also be extended to non-SAP-centric landscape components as well (see LinkedIn post).
So, call it an initiative, a concept, a strategy or an approach, clean core focuses on keeping an organization’s core ERP systems transparent, flexible, consistent, efficient, and cloud-compliant, so they can easily transition to the cloud. The core describes the main aspects of an ERP system, including extensibility, processes, data integration, and operation.
A clean core describes an up-to-date IT system with the latest releases, cloud-compliant extensions and integrations, with optimal primary data quality and process design.
Following a clean core strategy means reducing process inconsistencies, establishing governance structures, maximizing standard functionality, building cloud-compliant extensions which are integrated through stable interfaces, and minimizing complex customization.
A clean core approach makes it easy for organizations to upgrade more cost-effectively and with lower potential risk.
SAP Enterprise Support Value Maps Can Help Get You There
Every SAP cloud subscription includes SAP Enterprise Support - a comprehensive digital support experience - and SAP Enterprise Support value maps is your gateway to guided enablement.
With you in mind, value maps provide structured self-paced learnings to advance your digital skills; access to collaborative forums and SAP experts for personalized guidance; and continuous quality checks to mitigate implementation risks or identify optimization potential.
Our new clean core page within SAP Enterprise Support value maps highlights specific offerings designed to support your clean core strategy across the main elements of an ERP system, including business processes, extensibility, data integration, and operations. For instance, take a look at the resources available* for SAP Business Technology Platform:
*This represents the current situation, with new resources continuously added.
In addition to SAP Business Technology Platform, we have also gathered the relevant SAP Enterprise Support offerings to achieve a cleaner core in:
- SAP S/4HANA
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition
- Data Volume Management
- SAP Signavio | Business Process Transformation
- Business Process Improvement
- Security
Where to Access
3 Easy Steps:
- One-time sign-up for SAP Learning Hub, edition for SAP Enterprise Support, is required
- Access value maps
- Navigate to the clean core page within value maps learning room
When you're in the value map, feel free to join our forums, ask questions, or "Request a Call" to speak with one of our experts for more assistance. Value maps are easy to use, but a call with us helps us customize the conversation to your needs and point out relevant content.
Explore how implementing a clean core strategy can elevate your business process applications across your organization, and maximize the efficiency of your current software. Visit value maps today to learn more.
Got a question about the value maps, or our content?
Leverage the “ask questions” feature in the value map or contact us:
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References
Conversation with Markus Albrecht, Adoption Services Center General Manager for SAP BTP (LinkedIn post)
The Value of Clean Core (LinkedIn post)
Further Information
Clean core (SAP website)
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