Establish a clean core in your SAP S/4HANA system!

Clean Core for SAP Extensibility and Upgrade Stability for SAP S/4HANA

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Looking to understand the reality behind the “clean core”? Start by understanding the fundamentals of this approach, from standardized extensions and integrations through data management and operations. Then dive into creating custom extensions, following expert guidance each step of the way. With tips for using key tools like SAP Build and the ABAP Test Cockpit, implementing governance, and addressing existing technical debt, this is your all-in-one resource for adopting SAP’s clean core strategy!
  • Understand clean core guidelines for development, integration, data management, and operations
  • Use new extensibility models, extension patterns, and programming methodologies for compliant custom development
  • Address existing technical debt using SAP tools and services
About the E-book About the Book E-book in full color. PDF and EPUB files for download, DRM-free with personalized digital watermark. Copy and paste, bookmarks, and print-out permitted. Table of contents, in-text references, and index fully linked. Including online book edition in dedicated reader application. 400 pages, paperback. Reference book format 7 x 10 in. Printed black and white on 50# offset paper from sustainable sources. Casebound for durability. Reader-friendly serif font (TheAntiquaB 9.5 Pt.). One-column layout.

In this book, you'll learn about:

  1. The Clean Core Approach

    Learn how the clean core approach helps solve agility and adoption issues and see how it differs from traditional custom development. Balance your organization’s unique needs with the standard functionality provided by SAP systems.

  2. Implementing Clean Core

    Get tips for following clean core requirements and learn about helpful development tools. Follow step-by-step instructions for creating and implementing custom extensions using architectural patterns and different programming models and methodologies.

  3. The End-to-End Journey

    Understand the cultural and organizational transformation required for successful clean core adoption for both greenfield and brownfield implementations. Address existing technical debt and see how to govern a clean core system in the long term.

Highlights include:

  • Process standardization
  • Extensions
  • Integration
  • Data management
  • Operations
  • Custom development
  • Programming methodologies
  • SAP Build
  • ABAP test cockpit (ATC)
  • Governance

Smitha Banda is a senior business development manager at SAP and the head of the SAP BTP practice for North America.

Vani Krishnamoorthy is a chief architect at SAP with more than two decades of experience.

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