Keeping the core clean

Every aspect of global business today seems to move significantly faster than 10 years ago. For on-premises enterprise systems, a clean digital core is the only way to cope with that speed. SAP’s rationale behind the “clean digital core” paradigm is simple: allow customers to extend their SAP S/4HANA software while eventually making software updates non-events. A clean core facilitates faster software deployment, as well as the easier adoption of SAP innovations, process improvements, and regulatory changes. This reduces the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) without jeopardizing flexibility. In practical terms, keeping the core clean means the following:

• Applying a zero-modification policy from the project’s first day
• Eliminating enhancements that are redundant to standard code and functionality, as well as “clones” of standard code
• Using released APIs, only leveraging the key user (in-app) extensibility of...