How Side by Side solutions will help you to keep the core of your Business Solutions clean
Even if solutions are able to store historical data in the system, you should be aware of the workload to keep master-data not used within the last cycles up-to-date. If the data is outdated and/or the format of the data is not correct it could harm newly delivered business processes and functions and forces you to clean the data before you can start using the functionality.
Ideally you should have a governance and a data retention strategy in place.
Based on this your should run clean up – and archiving processes to optimize the const-benefit relation.
Manage your custom extensions and understand which extensions are still in use or unused and outdated.
needed extensions should be build in a specific Tier-1 environment ‘on-stack’ or ‘side by side’.
‘on-stack’ means in ABAP within the S4 System and ‘side-by-side’ means in Java or Java Script within the BTP environment.
If the needed Tier-1 API does not exist you can build a wrapper among a Tier-2 API like BAPIs or IDOCS. This should be done in sync with SAP and once the Tier-1 API from SAP exists the custom API should be retired.
Modification are most critical as they will block smooth release upgrades or at least require special attention during release upgrades.
for needed ‘modifications’ you should find an alternative approach for the software solutions
You should have a clear integration strategy including an automated test strategy for new releases with clear test boarders to avoid complex end to end testing for each release upgrade per software product.
To keep the core clear helps to ensure that you can still use the best practices and processes from SAP including process automation based on AI.
Let us define together how your custom add-on can be integrated without disturbing todays and future process flexibility and enhancements.
Optimize your Operations and leverage the advantage of cloud software having your software vendor taking care about operation.
Optimize the effort for release cycles
Optimize the effort for custom software maintenance
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