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Clean Core X-Ray™

SAP is evolving to embrace an Agile DevOps future where customization is aligned with business lines, changes can be rolled out in real-time, communication is standardized, and SAP upgrades are practically frictionless. smartShift Intelligent Automation® analyzes your current development frameworks to map the best path to adopting Clean Core paradigms.

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Why Transition to Clean Core?

Transitioning to a Clean Core SAP system is essential for seamless upgrades and enhanced agility. Clean Core is not an off-the-shelf product; it is a collection of development frameworks that allows your customization to be deployed in multiple ways based on what it’s being used for and how it needs to communicate with core SAP. Getting to Clean Core is a comprehensive journey that aligns your custom code with SAP’s modernized, modular architecture. Start your journey to Clean Core to get the following benefits:

  • Upgrade your SAP system frictionlessly
  • Take the most of what SAP has to offer
  • Reduce downtime
  • Enhance scalability and maintainability of your SAP system
Clean Core involves a clear vision of your code structure, with core SAP staying as uncustomized as possible, and custom modules built around it. Understanding how to embrace Clean Core means that you have to first understand your legacy customization. What does it do? Is it being used? How tightly-coupled to core SAP is it? Figuring this out is not easy, can get expensive, and can take more time than you have. What can you do? Meet smartShift’s Clean Core X-Ray, the solution you need to see exactly where your code stands and what needs to be done on your journey to Clean Core.

What is Clean Core X-Ray?

smartShift’s Clean Core X-Ray is an advanced solution that provides deep insights into your custom code, offering several key benefits over traditional manual methods:

Metamodel Construction: Build a metamodel of your entire custom code base to understand object interactions and data access. This foundational understanding is crucial for effective code transformation.

AI Tagging Engine: Our technology scans your existing custom code and, using proprietary AI, creates an inventory of entry points/RICEFWs grouping them by application area.

Accurate Roadmapping: Your entry points are processed by Intelligent Automation to characterize their data access patterns, degree of coupling to core SAP, and other factors. This allows smartShift to map your customizations to Clean Core deployment models, such as Key User Extensions, RAP, CAP, BTP, Developer extensions, and more. This unique insight ensures confident planning for your Clean Core modernization efforts.

Accelerating Your SAP Innovation Roadmap

Our industry-leading expertise gives us better insight into what Clean Core modernization really means for you in real-world terms, delivering results in just a matter of weeks.

Achieving a Clean Core SAP environment involves several key steps:

Decommissioning: Identify and remove unused or obsolete custom code to streamline your system and eliminate unnecessary complexities. Learn more about our Decommissioning Solution.

Code Security: Enhance the security of your custom code to protect against vulnerabilities and align with SAP’s security standards. Explore our Code Security Solution.

Modernization – S/4HANA: Transition to S/4HANA 2023, which supports the modular, API-driven approach necessary for a Clean Core environment. This upgrade promotes greater agility and innovation in your SAP system. As a part of the upgrade to SAP S/4HANA 2023 and up, regression testing is conducted to ensure your custom code is compatible with the S/4HANA upgrade. This helps identify potential issues and mitigate risks during the transition.

smartShift’s Clean Core X-Ray Solution: Utilize smartShift’s advanced tools for an in-depth analysis of your custom code. Our Clean Core X-Ray Solution maps your custom code behavior, using a metamodel-based, AI-powered method to categorize and reveal dependencies. This analysis helps you understand how your custom code needs to be transformed to operate in a Clean Core environment.

Decouple From Traditional Guesswork With smartShift

Only a multi-factor analysis of custom SAP programs can ensure best-in-class results.

Our proprietary analysis provides the insight to determine the modernization patterns that align with your unique business case.

Existing custom code is evaluated, classified, and mapped to the best future-state architecture.

Technical insights from automated analysis are reviewed and refined with you to align planning with your business objectives for Clean Core modernization. This reduces your risk, clarifies decision-making, and paves the way for smooth implementation. Here are the key pillars of smartShift’ SAP Clean Core methodology: 

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Pinpoint high-impact transformation projects

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Based on decades of real-world experience and expertise

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enforce robust controls over the creation of custom code to avoid accumulating technical debt

Minimize S/4HANA Conversion Risks With Automation

Large-scale SAP upgrade projects are a massive undertaking, requiring meticulous documentation of every change to ensure there are no significant gaps at go-live. And one wrong line of code can cost your business significant time and money. smartShift Automated Dual Maintenance meticulously uncovers, resolves, and tracks all system discrepancies and conflicts. It guarantees that merged code is free of errors faster and more efficiently than humanly possible to accelerate business transformation and guarantee peace of mind.

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Why Bring smartShift Onboard for Your SAP Clean Core Journey?

Proven Expertise

smartShift has transformed over 3 billion lines of code across 3,300+ projects, enabling smooth transitions to SAP Clean Core. With extensive SAP knowledge and experience with some of the largest SAP clients, we ensure best practices throughout the process.

Custom Solutions

We provide tailored modernization strategies, including code inventory for fit-gap analysis, code decommissioning, and upgrading legacy systems for RISE or S/4HANA. 

Cutting-Edge Technology

Our platform, backed by 14 patents and ISO/IEC 27001 certified, ensures secure innovation.

Time Savings and Efficiency

smartShift Intelligent Automation® accelerates delivery by 3-4 times compared to traditional approaches, achieving results in weeks with minimal disruption.

Risk Reduction

With 99.99% accuracy and technology 1,000 times less prone to errors than manual processes, our targeted approach mitigates risk effectively.

Partnership

We continue to support your team with architectural roadmaps, ensuring they have all the tools needed to maintain the Clean Core environment.

Cost Savings

Our fixed-cost, fixed-timeline model decreases testing needs by 75%, streamlines processes, and eliminates millions of manual labor hours.

 

“Don’t avoid SAP innovation. Embrace Clean Core Modernization instead with fast, accurate, and guaranteed results from smartShift.”

Get Started With Our Clean Core X-Ray Repository Analysis

Get an in-depth analysis of your SAP repository to identify the potential list of modernization Entry Points (RICEFWs) including:

  • Usage Analysis
  • Entry Point Identification and Classification
  • Application Component Analysis
  • Technical Coupling Assessment

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