Clean Core Assessment
Accelerate your move to a modern, stable, and upgrade-ready SAP landscape with our SAP Clean Core Assessment. We help enterprises simplify their ERP, remove technical debt, and design a future-ready architecture using SAP BTP and S/4HANA Clean Core best practices.
What is SAP Clean Core?
SAP Clean Core is an approach that promotes minimizing customizations and relying more on standard SAP functionality to maintain a simplified and standardized system.
By reducing custom code, businesses can make upgrades, migrations, and integrations easier and less costly. This strategy aligns with SAP’s vision of leveraging best practices, built-in features, and modern technologies like SAP S/4HANA and SAP Fiori. Clean Core ensures that the SAP environment remains flexible, future-proof, and aligned with ongoing SAP innovations. Ultimately, it enhances system stability, lowers maintenance efforts, and prepares organizations for seamless updates and transformations.
Sierra Digital makes Clean Core easy with the InFocus Readiness Assessment for Clean Core, an SAP-sponsored, gold-standard tool that aids and accelerates migration planning.
H2: Features of the Clean Core Assessment Tool
The InFocus Readiness Assessment for Clean Core is loaded with insights you need for effective, cost-efficient migration planning.
See a comprehensive display and analysis of custom objects
Gain an understanding of custom object counts, segregation, and detailed classification using widgets arranged in the assessment’s dashboards.
Identify possibilities for use case-specific enhancements
Use the product availability matrix to access Sierra’s SAP BTP application library, including apps with GenAI capabilities.
Score and analyze conversion effort
Determine the level of effort required to migrate each object to a Clean Core, and which extension is the best fit for the custom object. Analyze custom objects and understand individual object cost and the aggregate cost of migration.
Get recommendations for object migration
We recommend transitioning from the current state (As-Is) to the desired state (To-Be) at the object level when redesigning the object in the new S/4HANA system. Additionally, we advise on the most suitable extension for this object and offer code remediation solutions to support Clean Core development, along with recommendations for released objects.
Benefits of the Clean Core Assessment
The InFocus Readiness Assessment for Clean Core benefits your organization with:
Actionable steps to minimize technical debt
Get insights into which unused objects can be retired from your system, relieving technical debt and minimizing the effort required for Clean Core conversion.
Insights you need for accurate budgeting and resource allocation
With rough cost and effort estimators, you’ll have a clear insight into the resources required for your Clean Core conversion project.
Migration recommendations for vital custom objects
Get tailored recommendations and migration strategies for the vital custom objects that your business depends on to keep running smoothly.
Globalized, ever-improving business process templates
Enjoy globalized business process templates architected by the experts at SAP for proven success and reliable business value.
Sanctioned, Clean Core compatible customizations on SAP BTP
With app extensions built on SAP BTP, you can support unique business processes with customized software, without disturbing your Clean Core. Our Clean Core application has a scoring mechanism, which will give us the list of objects that can possibly be a good candidate for BTP development.
How can Sierra’s Readiness Assessment help Clients?
The InFocus Readiness Assessment for Clean Core helps minimize the expense associated with ageing customizations and inevitable system failures, while enabling growth and consistent improvement with guaranteed compatibility to updates from SAP. This tool prepares the organization to implement best-practice-based system architecture, and with our attention to the business processes that your organization relies on, you can trust Sierra to deliver practical business value.
- Package-wise analysis is displayed by Sierra, to make it simple and easy for understanding the assessment report analysis. We can do analysis by selecting only a specific package of objects as per our requirements.
- The report displays the count of WRICEF Object and its classifications in a single dashboard, giving the user the details of custom objects present in the system.
- Drill down flow of Sierra Assessment Report: System -> Package -> object type (Count) -> object -> Object usages (With quick fixes) and released objects.
- Scoring is displayed in the report as per Sierra formula, which will decide which objects shall be a good fit for on-stack development, side-by-side extension and remediation.
- The Sierra assessment report gets the usage of data from a standard assessment report and provides usage analysis of the object type wise and object wise.
- Sierra Assessment report provides the released object suggestion for the standard objects used inside the custom object, like table, BAPI, FM and class.
How Clean Core Strengthens
Your SAP Environment
Why SAP Clean Core Matters
Organizations moving from ECC to S/4HANA Clean Core need predictable, low-customization, cloud-ready architecture. A Clean Core ensures:
- Faster innovation cycles
- Easier S/4HANA Cloud adoption
- Reduced upgrade costs
- Improved integration with SAP BTP
SAP Clean Core Strategy Overview
A strong SAP Clean Core strategy includes:
- System assessment & custom code analysis
- Identification of BTP extension opportunities
- Process standardization recommendations
- Roadmap for Clean Core transformation
- Automation-ready architecture
SAP Clean Core for BTP-Based Innovations
SAP BTP plays a key role in Clean Core adoption by enabling:
- Side-by-side extensions
- GenAI-powered business apps
- Event-driven architecture
- API-based integration
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is SAP Clean Core?
SAP Clean Core is a modernization approach that limits custom code and uses standard SAP capabilities to create a simplified, upgrade-safe, and cloud-ready SAP S/4HANA environment.
2. How do you assess SAP Clean Core readiness?
Using tools like Sierra Digital’s InFocus Readiness Assessment to analyze custom objects, evaluate migration effort, identify BTP extension candidates, and generate a Clean Core roadmap.
3. What is SAP Clean Core in S/4HANA?
SAP Clean Core in S/4HANA refers to keeping the core system free from unnecessary customizations and shifting enhancements to SAP BTP.
4. How does Clean Core help with ECC to S/4HANA migration?
It reduces migration complexity, simplifies testing, and ensures long-term compatibility with SAP updates.
5. What is included in a Clean Core Assessment?
Custom object analysis, cost estimation, BTP fitment scoring, usage analytics, and object-level migration recommendations.
6. How does SAP BTP support Clean Core strategy?
BTP allows organizations to build extensions without modifying the S/4HANA core.
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