RISE with SAP Solutions by smartShift

RISE with SAP is SAP’s comprehensive offering designed to help organizations move their ERP to the cloud and adopt SAP S/4HANA. It bundles software, infrastructure, technical services, and ongoing support into a single subscription, simplifying the commercial and operational model. RISE enables companies to modernize their ERP, improve agility, and access SAP’s latest innovations. However, while SAP provides the platform and services, customers are still responsible for preparing and modernizing their custom code to ensure a successful and sustainable transition.

During a RISE with SAP migration, custom code is one of the biggest risk areas. Many organizations struggle with undocumented, outdated, or tightly coupled customizations that are not compatible with S/4HANA or Clean Core principles. These issues can lead to functional disruptions, longer migration timelines, higher costs, and post-go-live instability if not addressed early.

Technically, migration is possible - but it is strongly discouraged. Ignoring legacy custom code often results in broken processes, performance issues, security risks, and limited ability to adopt future SAP innovations. Addressing custom code upfront ensures system stability, reduces technical debt, and aligns the environment with Clean Core requirements in RISE with SAP.

Dual Maintenance is the process of keeping SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA systems aligned while they run in parallel during a transformation. As business-as-usual development continues in ECC, those changes must also be reflected accurately in the S/4HANA project system to avoid divergence, rework, and risk at go-live.
smartShift Dual Maintenance automates the comparison, merge, and remediation of ongoing ECC code changes into the S/4HANA environment. This removes the need for long production code freezes or manual replication, allowing transformation programs to move forward while day-to-day development continues.
By synchronizing changes using automation, Dual Maintenance helps organizations maintain stability, reduce manual effort, and ensure the S/4HANA system remains aligned, compatible, and ready for go-live throughout the transformation.

Yes. smartShift works alongside system integrators in an SAP RISE project. System integrators typically lead business process design, functional configuration, data migration, and change management. smartShift complements this by automating custom code analysis, modernizationremediation, dual maintenance, and Clean Core enablement.
This clear division of responsibility reduces manual effort, shortens project timelines, and lowers risk. By handling complex and time-consuming custom code activities through automation, smartShift enables integrators to focus on higher-value transformation initiatives - resulting in a faster, more predictable, and scalable RISE with SAP journey.

A Clean Core in RISE with SAP means keeping the SAP S/4HANA core system as close to standard as possible while moving customizations to upgrade - safe extension frameworks such as APIs, SAP BTP, and key user extensibility. This approach minimizes direct modifications to the core, reducing technical debt and complexity. Clean Core is critical in RISE because cloud ERP relies on frequent upgrades and continuous innovation. Without a Clean Core, upgrades become costly and risky. With it, organizations gain faster upgrades, lower maintenance effort, improved stability, and long-term agility to innovate without disruption.