SAP-Solution: Clean Core

Why modernizing SAP systems and building an in-house AI platform represent the same investment today.

With the SAP Edge Integration Cell, Kubernetes is making its way into many SAP environments. However, success depends on more than just technology: Operations, automation, security, and sustainable cloud-native expertise are crucial.

The idea is very appealing: We’re optimizing ourselves and our ERP system with the help of AI. Do we still need SAP for that—and afterward, too? We’re becoming an Autonomous Enterprise.

Opinions clash at the SAP roundtable: It’s clear that SAP treats its existing customers very differently. Discounts, perks, and price reductions are handed out almost arbitrarily.

Standardizing without losing your unique identity: With S/4 HANA, companies must reevaluate where individuality creates real added value—and where it becomes a burden. In the supply chain in particular, “Clean Core” thus becomes a strategic architectural issue with far-reaching consequences.

To close the functional gaps in its own data portfolio and prevent existing customers from migrating to generic cloud platforms, SAP has designed the BDC as an open ecosystem and established partnerships with third-party providers.

The fundamental risk of the SAP Autonomous Enterprise lies in the contradiction between how artificial intelligence works and the mathematical nature of an ERP system.

The major misconception within the SAP service partner ecosystem right now is this: as long as there is high demand for S/4 migrations, business can simply continue as usual. That’s convenient, but risky for several reasons.

The SAP Clean Core doctrine has sparked a veritable gold rush for consultants and deep despair among IT managers in the SAP community. Faced with this organizational and architectural dilemma, SAP has released a tool whose name borders on real-life satire: Project Kernseife.

Increasing demands for data quality and AI are bringing about lasting changes to SAP architectures. Torsten Ammon, who serves as Chief Product and Technology Officer at Implico since July, understands the role that Clean Core, agent-based solutions, and process expertise play in this context.

A roundtable discussion hosted by E3 Magazine—streamed on YouTube—featuring licensing experts Myrja Schumacher of DLC, Andreas Knab of Soterion, and Lorenz Müller of HiSolutions reveals many pitfalls and areas in need of improvement in the SAP ERP universe.

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