How SAP Cloud ALM supports the adoption of clean core

A clean core describes a system that is as close to standard as possible while running cloud-compliant extensions and integrations. It allows you to adapt your system to changing business requirements to adopt new capabilities.

Strong governance is required for each technical dimension of clean core.

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Business Processes

What is a "clean" process?

Keep competitiveness while reducing complexity

Enhance SAP standard solutions only if competitive advantages can be achieved
Use recommended SAP Reference Solution Architecture
Implement SAP Best Practices

SAP Cloud ALM capabilities:

SAP methodology for clean core with corresponding Quality Gates
Modeling, requirement and documentation management to design customer-specific processes
Analytics and traceability dashboards to track the compliance with clean core criteria
Business process monitoring and job and automation monitoring

Extensibility

What are "good" extensions?

Decouple extensions from SAP standard

Follow the upgrade-stable extensibility model
Extend on stack or side-by-side with SAP BTP
Set up strong extension governance
Avoid extensions when possible

SAP Cloud ALM capabilities:

SAP Readiness Check to identify simplification items, custom code and add-ons
Agile build process for extensions
Central documentation and testing of extensions
Management and deployment of ABAP and BTP extensions
Instrumentation for monitoring of extensions

Data

What is "clean" data?

Control data following latest standards

Improve accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, validity, and uniqueness of your data
Control data volume to avoid outdated, unused, or redundant information
Store personal master data only with justifiable purposes

SAP Cloud ALM capabilities:

SAP Readiness Check to track the resolution of data quality issues (e.g. financial data quality)
Integration monitoring of end-to-end message processing, events and business objects
Data volume management to identify savings potential

Integration

What is "clean" integration?

Keep the landscape reliable and flexible

Use standard APIs (OData and SOAP) and avoid traditional APIs (RFC and IDoc)
Aim for side-by-side extensibility with API integration or SAP Integration Suite
Build loosely coupled integrations in an event-driven design based on standard events
Ensure monitoring and error resolution using SAP Application Interface Framework

SAP Cloud ALM capabilities:

Central documentation of integrations
Integrated management of CPI transports
Integration monitoring of end-to-end message processing, events and business objects
Exception monitoring to identify errors

Operations

What are "clean" operations?

Keep operations effective and efficient

Integrate monitoring use cases into operations
Always target the latest SAP release within your release management
Pursue best practice housekeeping activities according to defined roles and responsibilities
Agree that SAP performs maintenance within contractual maintenance periods (CMPs)

SAP Cloud ALM capabilities:

Full-stack monitoring based on the following use cases:
- Processes: Business process monitoring and job and automation monitoring
- Integration: Integration monitoring and exception monitoring
- Monitoring of extensions: Health monitoring, real & synthetic user monitoring
- Data: Integration monitoring
Business Service Management to align SAP maintenance events with your business downtimes
SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA upgrades to identify custom code and add-ons
Automated regression testing to manage change or upgrade events
Release management to bundle and track all change and testing activities

Key takeaways: SAP Cloud ALM and clean core

A clean core helps customers to stay current with innovation from SAP
SAP Cloud ALM helps customers to adopt clean core principles
Customers build differentiating processes and functionality using side-by-side or built in extensions
Data quality and clean core compliant integrations are a must
End to end monitoring drives business continuity and quality of process execution