Pillar · Innovate
Innovate Beyond the Core
Move differentiation to sustainable extensions while keeping SAP upgrade-ready.
The challenge
Yesterday's Customization Slows Tomorrow's Change
No inventory, obsolete code retained
No reliable inventory of custom objects and business ownership, and obsolete code retained because impact is uncertain.
Modifications and unsustainable patterns
Modifications that block upgrades and cloud transition, and new requirements implemented through familiar but unsustainable patterns.
Inconsistent decisions, no governance
Unclear choice between configuration, in-app and side-by-side extension, released APIs not assessed consistently, technical debt measured without business criticality, and clean-core principles not embedded in delivery governance.
Clean core is not a one-time remediation exercise; it is an architectural and governance discipline that must guide requirements, releases and innovation.
How we help
Make Clean Core an Operating Principle
We connect custom-code intelligence, business decisions, extension architecture and delivery controls.
Custom-Code Baseline
Object inventory and classification, usage and dependency analysis, business owner mapping, criticality and risk assessment, and a technical-debt baseline.
Remediation Strategy
Retain, retire, replace and redesign decisions, modification elimination, standard capability and configuration review, released API and extensibility assessment, and prioritized remediation waves.
Extension Decision Framework
Fit-to-standard principles, on-stack and side-by-side criteria, low-code, pro-code and ABAP Cloud guidance, integration and event patterns, and an exception and approval process.
Clean-Core Governance
Architecture standards and guardrails, a design authority and review gates, custom-code quality controls, release and upgrade evidence, and clean-core KPIs and reporting.
Sustainable Innovation Roadmap
Business AI Platform enablement priorities, extension portfolio sequencing, skills and delivery model, automation and testing requirements, and continuous debt reduction.
Business benefits
A Core Ready for Continuous Innovation
Lower Upgrade Effort
Reduce conflicts, remediation cycles and uncertainty during releases.
Faster Adoption of Innovation
A protected core makes new SAP capabilities easier to evaluate and consume.
Less Technical Debt
Retirement and redesign decisions remove complexity that no longer creates value.
Consistent Extension Choices
Teams use shared criteria instead of repeating unsustainable patterns.
Greater Architecture Visibility
Business ownership and technical dependency become explicit.
Sustained Transformation Value
Governance keeps the landscape from returning to its previous level of customization.
Methodology
Reduce Debt. Prevent Its Return.
Five phases from baseline to governed, self-sustaining clean core.
- 01
Baseline
Inventory customizations, usage, dependencies, business value and transformation risk.
- 02
Decide
Classify objects and requirements using retain, retire, replace and redesign criteria.
- 03
Architect
Define sustainable extension patterns, interfaces and platform responsibilities.
- 04
Remediate
Execute prioritized changes with testing, release control and business validation.
- 05
Govern
Embed clean-core controls and KPIs into architecture and delivery processes.
Engagement scenarios
Clean Core Across the SAP Lifecycle
SAP Cloud ERP Clean-Core Assessment
Establish the customization baseline and remediation roadmap before transformation.
Post-Go-Live Customization Control
Prevent uncontrolled extensions as business demand accelerates.
Custom-Code Reduction Program
Retire or redesign high-cost objects through prioritized delivery waves.
Extension Governance Design
Create standards, review gates and decision rights across internal and partner teams.
Continuous Clean-Core Service
Track debt, review new requirements and maintain upgrade readiness over time.
Why Global Core Technologies
Why Organizations Choose Global Core Technologies
Business and Technical Evidence
We combine usage, dependency, risk and business value in remediation decisions.
Transformation Experience
Clean-core choices are aligned with SAP Cloud ERP, cloud and lifecycle realities.
Extension Capability
We can move requirements into practical BAIP, Build and ABAP Cloud patterns.
Governance Discipline
Architecture controls make clean core sustainable beyond the initial project.
Measured Improvement
Baselines and KPIs show whether complexity and upgrade exposure are decreasing.
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Protect the Core. Keep Innovating.
Reduce customization debt and establish an extension model that supports faster, safer SAP change.