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A Clean Core That Stays Clean

Candent’s SAP BTP and Clean Core practice extends your S/4HANA with ABAP Cloud and SAP Build, so your enterprise stays agile without accumulating the custom code debt that breaks every upgrade.

What We Deliver

Extension Architecture That Keeps S/4HANA Upgradeable

Candent’s SAP BTP and Clean Core practice covers every layer of extension: the development standard, the platform, the tooling, and the governance that keeps the core clean as the business evolves.

Clean Core Assessment and Remediation

We assess your existing custom code against SAP’s clean core criteria, identify upgrade-critical objects, and remediate or redesign them before they become a program risk.

ABAP Cloud Development

Extensions built to the ABAP Cloud model, using only released APIs and stable extension points, so every development survives an upgrade without a regression test cycle.

SAP BTP Integration and Extension

We build BTP-side extensions, side-by-side applications, and process automations on SAP BTP, keeping the core clean while delivering the business capability the operation requires.

SAP Build and Low-Code Extension

Business process automation, workflow extensions, and user interfaces built on SAP Build Apps, SAP Build Process Automation, and SAP Build Work Zone, without touching the core.

Released API Strategy and Governance

We establish the API design standards, approved extension points, and governance controls that prevent custom code from re-entering the core as the program matures.

Clean Core Governance and Continuous Compliance

Ongoing governance of your extension landscape through SAP Cloud ALM: custom code monitoring, transport management, and clean core compliance tracked across every release cycle.

Designed For

Three Programs Where Clean Core Architecture Changes the Outcome.

S/4HANA Transformation in progress

Your blueprint is being designed. Now is when the extension architecture decisions have long-term consequences. Getting the clean core model right at this stage eliminates upgrade risk before it accumulates.

Post go-live, custom code volume is growing.

The implementation is live, but every new business requirement is landing as a core modification. Governance is not in place. The architecture needs resetting before the next upgrade window.

ECC to S/4HANA migration with legacy custom code

A library of ECC custom objects needs assessment before migration begins. Which objects are upgrade-critical? Which can be retired? Which need redesign on SAP BTP? The answers determine scope, cost, and risk.

Why This Matters Beyond the Upgrade

A Clean Core Is the Foundation for Agentic AI on SAP.

The enterprise programs moving from automation to autonomous operation, agentic AI, intelligent process automation, and real-time event-driven workflows, run on SAP BTP. They depend on stable, released APIs and an extension architecture that was built to be extended. A landscape locked by core modifications cannot support that model. The integration touchpoints are not stable. The APIs are not released. Every new capability requires a regression cycle.
Candent builds the clean core and BTP architecture that makes the next stage of enterprise capability possible. Not as a future phase. As part of the current program design.

Why Candent for SAP BTP and Clean Core

We Govern the Architecture We Build

The most effective clean core program is one where the same team that designs the extension architecture also governs what enters it after go-live. Candent’s ABAP Cloud and BTP practice works alongside our CoE-as-a-Service and AMS teams, so the clean core standard is maintained as a continuous discipline, not a one-time implementation decision.
From assessment to operating model, the timeline is agreed before the engagement begins.

Why Candent for CoE-as-a-Service

We Built the Program. We Know What It Will Take to Run It

The most effective CoE is one staffed by people who understand the architecture decisions, integration design, and configuration rationale that went into your SAP landscape. When Candent delivers the implementation, the CoE team carries that context forward. When we inherit an existing landscape, our architects assess it properly before taking ownership.
The people running your CoE are the same people who would design your next phase of work. That continuity matters.

Often Used Alongside

Clean Core Works With the Wider S/4HANA Program.

Candent’s SAP BTP and Clean Core practice is typically engaged as part of a broader S/4HANA transformation or post-go-live governance engagement. Where the extension architecture connects to integration or autonomous process design, our Integration Services and Autonomous Enterprise teams work on the same program.

SAP S/4HANA Transformation

Integration Services and API Management

Autonomous Enterprise Services

CoE-as-a-Service

Custom Code Is the Risk Nobody Budgets For Until It’s Too Late.