ERP clean core strategy
What is a clean core strategy?
With an ERP clean core strategy, your organization can benefit from the latest release with minimal modifications and cloud-compliant extensions and customizations.
The stability of standardization with the flexibility to innovate
By standardizing the processes and data underlying ERP operations, your business can benefit from more best practices and customize what it needs to differentiate itself.
Reach new levels of IT efficiency and mitigate risks to the business
Execute decision-making and actions better with improved data quality
Accelerate innovation with regular upgrades and powerful development tools
Gain a competitive advantage with clean core-compliant enhancements in SAP Build tools and SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) with the SAP BTP Guidance Framework
Explore the value of a clean core strategy
80
%
less software customization*
70
%
of core business processes are automated*
50
%
reduction in database size*
80
%
of core business processes standardized across 24 countries*
Rapid innovation
- Improve agility by creating differentiating business models and scaling capabilities as needed
- Adapt with greater ease by using innovations directly from standard software releases from SAP
- Gain clear visibility into business process performance and innovation priorities
Better execution
- Make better decisions faster with increased data quality and availability
- Collaborate more meaningfully by using one version of the truth to break down siloed departments
- Optimize processes by connecting the right people to the right projects throughout the business
Operations efficiency
- Allocate more of your resources toward innovation, instead of maintenance
- Address regulatory changes quickly and simplify compliance tracking, auditing, and reporting
- Enhance security through up-to-date upgrades and the most-recent innovations
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Resources to support your journey to a clean core
Clean core dashboard
Transparent views into your current clean core progress with user-friendly reporting tiles in the SAP for Me portal
Access available to your system administrators using RISE with SAP
Quarterly updates with new features, measurements, and tiles covering the latest cloud ERP solutions from SAP
Clean core services
Advisory services to provide guidance about the benefits and transformation options
Implementation, migration, and development services to help you transform with the least risk
Enablement and coaching services to help optimize and monitor progress
Global strategic service partners
Deep expertise for rethinking current systems, business models, processes, and operations
Defined cloud migration strategy to help select, implement, and integrate the right SAP solutions
Ongoing support and maintenance with industry solutions, custom development, and change management
See how SAP customers are succeeding with a clean core strategy
Driving digital innovation with scalability and flexibility
Look at how leading global professional services company Accenture is applying the clean core paradigm to transition to a composable architecture and eliminate custom code.
What are analysts saying?
Succeeding in the digital world with the power of a clean core
Take a close look at how a powerful, modern cloud ERP system with a clean core – regardless of updates and adopted innovations – provides a single version of truth that becomes the heart of running a digital business.