Adapt Clean Core Principle using SAP Cloud ALM

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Introduction:

The main aspect of an ERP systems are:

1. Business Processes
2. Extensibility
3. Data
4. Integration
5. Operations

SAP Cloud ALM provides the environment to manage your clean core projects along SAP Activate and the 5 dimensions together with analytics and Traceability dashboards to track adherence to clean core criteria.

1. Business Processes : SAP Cloud ALM helps you make business processes clean core compliant. It enhances standard solutions from SAP only where competitive advantages can be created with proper business process governance and excellence. It uses recommended SAP Reference Solution Architecture.

   To answer how it does? Find below.

   • Consumption of SAP Best Practice Content
   • Execute Fit to standard Workshops incl. requirements management
   • Design custom processes
   • Business Process Monitoring
   • SAP Readiness Check to remediate simplification items
2. Extensibility : SAP Cloud ALM helps you to make extensions clean core compliant. It avoids extensions when possible. It extends on the stack or side-by-side with SAP BTP. It sets up strong governance to create decoupled extensions.

   How it helps? Find Below.

   • Manage hybrid development (ABAP & BTP)
   • Manual & Automated testing (with Tricentis Test Automation)
   • Agile Build
   • Monitoring of extensions
   • SAP Readiness Check to remediate custom code
3. Data: SAP Cloud ALM helps you to have data which is clean core compliant. SAP Cloud ALM manages data quality by improving accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, validity, and uniqueness. It Control Data volume to avoid outdated, unused, or redundant information.

   How it helps? Find Below.

   • Data consistency and data volume monitoring
   • SAP Readiness Check to resolve data quality issues
4. Integration: SAP Cloud ALM helps you to make integration clean core compliant. SAP Cloud ALM uses standard APIs (OData and SOAP) and avoid traditional APIs (RFC and IDoc). It extends side-by-side using the SAP Integration Suite and it also helps in realizing loosely coupled integrations. It ensures monitoring and error resolution capabilities using SAP Application Interface framework.

   How it helps? Find Below.

   • Integration Documentation
   • Manage CPI deployments
   • Interface and exception monitoring
5. Operations: SAP Cloud ALM helps you to make operations clean core compliant. SAP Cloud ALM integrates the configured monitoring use cases into transition to operation. It always target the latest SAP release as part of your overall release management. 

How it helps? Find Below.

• Full stack monitoring
• Business service management
• Automated regression testing
• Release Management
• SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA upgrades

Conclusion:

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.

SAP Cloud ALM is not a technology of future, it is happening right now. So to be relevant in this age of innovation and digital transformation, adapt to SAP Cloud ALM as early as possible.

Cheers !