Architecture deep-dives — Clean Core, custom-code strategy, and the design decisions that keep your SAP digital core standard and upgrade-safe.
The difference between an SAP estate that absorbs updates cleanly and one that fights every upgrade is architecture. These deep-dives focus on the Clean Core principle — keeping the S/4HANA core standard and moving extensions onto Business Technology Platform through released APIs — and the custom-code strategy that makes it achievable.
Expect practical treatment of extensibility patterns, integration design with SAP Integration Suite, data and security architecture, and the technical-debt cleanup that a migration is the right moment to tackle. The goal is a digital core that stays upgrade-safe and ready for cloud and AI.
What SAP Cloud ALM covers, what it doesn't replace from Solution Manager, licensing, and a practical migration path for Basis and operations teams.
How SAP and Databricks fit together in 2026: SAP Databricks inside Business Data Cloud, Delta Sharing to external lakehouses, and how to choose between them.
How to maintain Clean Core after S/4HANA: a practical custom-code strategy — classify, remediate, extend on the side, and keep the core upgrade-safe.
A practical guide to SAP BTP architecture: extension patterns, runtime selection, Integration Suite design, cost modeling, and what derails projects.
Understand SAP's Clean Core strategy. Learn what it means for your custom code, how to implement it, and why it's essential for S/4HANA success.