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Approach Business Outcomes
• Agility and Innovation: Businesses
need to be agile to respond to
market changes and to leverage
new technological innovations
• Upgrade Complexity: Difficulty
associated with upgrading to newer
versions due to extensive
customizations
• Maintenance and Cost Efficiency:
Heavily customized SAP systems
can be costly and time-consuming
to maintain
• Optimize and simplify while
increasing agility, adaptability and
security throughout the SAP
landscape
• Improve operations governance
processes and the end-to-end
toolchain to continuously embed
Clean Core practices
• Utilize innovative services and
technologies to optimize IT
operations and develop a Best
Practice strategy for Clean Core
• Agile integrated core
• AI Ready
• Enhanced Performance and
Stability
• Simplified Upgrades and
Maintenance
• Lower Total Cost of Ownership
• Cloud Compliant
• End to End Toolchain adoption
• Reduce transformation effort
Discover Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run
S C E N A R I O F O U N D A T I O N & M O D U L E S
OBJECTIVES OUTCOMES
Foundation • Gain transparency on custom code, data,
operational and business challenges
within core system
• Validation of program readiness for
design advisory governance
transformation
• Holistic planning for agile and business
process-oriented Application Lifecycle
Management
• Acceleration of core business process
performance and throughput
• Digitized and automated processing
• Archiving project acceleration
• Roadmap to enable agile across your
organization
Clean and
Automate
• A customer-tailored strategy for
decommissioning obsolete custom code
is defined
• Identification of data reduction potential
• Analysis of current data situation and
Insights into improvement potential for
process automation
• Re-platforming support
• Core business processes run on SAP-
centric hybrid software landscape in a
stable, performant manner
• Accelerated archiving projects with best
practices including cleansing of data
inconsistencies
• Optimized real-time business outcomes
including manual task reduction
Design Excellence • Project collaboration and governance
involving all responsible parties
• Future innovations are developed with
SAP best practices and design
guidelines in mind
• Maximized use of SAP software
standards and the latest solution
capabilities
• Cloud-readiness in close collaboration
with SAP through the project design
governance framework
• Full visibility of transformation readiness
with clear actionable recommendations
• Avoidance of unnecessary
developments and maximized software
usage
Keep the Core
Clean
• Decoupling of embedded custom code
from core systems for side-by-side
extensions, and enable innovation
• Guidance on how to maximize leverage
the capabilities of SAP Business
Technology Platform
• Solid knowledge transfer of SAP
Extension Suite for how to drive or guide
extension projects
• IT and development teams to
understand and work towards the clean
core principle
• Custom extensions are built in line with
SAP’s best practice extension strategy
• Use of development tools and web
services which reduce costs, i.e. faster
iteration cycles
Agile Innovation
Delivery
• A situation-specific roadmap created
that addresses business change
requirements
• An analysis and recommendation report
regarding the transport landscape,
transport strategy, and change
processes
• Identification of the current test
management approach, its business
requirements, and its potential
improvements
• Organizational change readiness when
moving to future SAP technology stacks
• Changes and new releases are
implemented in a non-disruptive and
cost-efficient way with high quality
• Reduced risk of software changes and
their potential impact on critical business
processes
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Future proof your landscape by preparing and cleaning your core
landscape, establishing transparency, governance and agile tools and
methodology to keep the core clean allowing you to leverage innovations
faster and at scale with a cloud mindset.
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MODULES OUTCOMES
Other
Modules Included
• Establish Operations Excellence
• Optimize Your Operations Organization
• Effectively operate your SAP solutions
with proactive and automatic
monitoring, including best practices for
alerts, analysis, and reporting
• Skillful and proactive IT operations
organization based on best-practice IT
processes, and certified by SAP as a
Customer Center of Expertise
organization
Approach Business Outcomes
• Agility and Innovation: Businesses
need to be agile to respond to
market changes and to leverage
new technological innovations
• Upgrade Complexity: Difficulty
associated with upgrading to newer
versions due to extensive
customizations
• Maintenance and Cost Efficiency:
Heavily customized SAP systems
can be costly and time-consuming
to maintain
• Optimize and simplify while
increasing agility, adaptability and
security throughout the SAP
landscape
• Improve operations governance
processes and the end-to-end
toolchain to continuously embed
Clean Core practices
• Utilize innovative services and
technologies to optimize IT
operations and develop a Best
Practice strategy for Clean Core
• Agile integrated core
• AI Ready
• Enhanced Performance and
Stability
• Simplified Upgrades and
Maintenance
• Lower Total Cost of Ownership
• Cloud Compliant
• End to End Toolchain adoption
• Reduce transformation effort
Discover Prepare Explore Realize Deploy Run
S C E N A R I O F O U N D A T I O N & M O D U L E S
OBJECTIVES OUTCOMES
Foundation • Gain transparency on custom code, data,
operational and business challenges
within core system
• Validation of program readiness for
design advisory governance
transformation
• Holistic planning for agile and business
process-oriented Application Lifecycle
Management
• Acceleration of core business process
performance and throughput
• Digitized and automated processing
• Archiving project acceleration
• Roadmap to enable agile across your
organization
Clean and
Automate
• A customer-tailored strategy for
decommissioning obsolete custom code
is defined
• Identification of data reduction potential
• Analysis of current data situation and
Insights into improvement potential for
process automation
• Re-platforming support
• Core business processes run on SAP-
centric hybrid software landscape in a
stable, performant manner
• Accelerated archiving projects with best
practices including cleansing of data
inconsistencies
• Optimized real-time business outcomes
including manual task reduction
Design Excellence • Project collaboration and governance
involving all responsible parties
• Future innovations are developed with
SAP best practices and design
guidelines in mind
• Maximized use of SAP software
standards and the latest solution
capabilities
• Cloud-readiness in close collaboration
with SAP through the project design
governance framework
• Full visibility of transformation readiness
with clear actionable recommendations
• Avoidance of unnecessary
developments and maximized software
usage
Keep the Core
Clean
• Decoupling of embedded custom code
from core systems for side-by-side
extensions, and enable innovation
• Guidance on how to maximize leverage
the capabilities of SAP Business
Technology Platform
• Solid knowledge transfer of SAP
Extension Suite for how to drive or guide
extension projects
• IT and development teams to
understand and work towards the clean
core principle
• Custom extensions are built in line with
SAP’s best practice extension strategy
• Use of development tools and web
services which reduce costs, i.e. faster
iteration cycles
Agile Innovation
Delivery
• A situation-specific roadmap created
that addresses business change
requirements
• An analysis and recommendation report
regarding the transport landscape,
transport strategy, and change
processes
• Identification of the current test
management approach, its business
requirements, and its potential
improvements
• Organizational change readiness when
moving to future SAP technology stacks
• Changes and new releases are
implemented in a non-disruptive and
cost-efficient way with high quality
• Reduced risk of software changes and
their potential impact on critical business
processes
F
1
2
3
4
96338enUS (25/05)
© 2025 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. See Legal Notice on www.sap.com/legal-notice for use terms, disclaimers, disclosures, or restrictions related to this material.
Accelerate Your Cloud Transformation with a Clean Core
A Business Scenario powered by Premium Engagements from SAP
1
2
3
4
Future proof your landscape by preparing and cleaning your core
landscape, establishing transparency, governance and agile tools and
methodology to keep the core clean allowing you to leverage innovations
faster and at scale with a cloud mindset.
F
MODULES OUTCOMES
Other
Modules Included
• Establish Operations Excellence
• Optimize Your Operations Organization
• Effectively operate your SAP solutions
with proactive and automatic
monitoring, including best practices for
alerts, analysis, and reporting
• Skillful and proactive IT operations
organization based on best-practice IT
processes, and certified by SAP as a
Customer Center of Expertise
organization