Already on S/4HANA? Your custom code isn't done yet
Going live on S/4HANA isn't the finish line for Clean Core — it's the start. Why converted systems drift out of compliance, and how continuous governance keeps every upgrade a non-event.
Lumivara gets small and mid-size SAP teams to a clean S/4HANA core incrementally — ATC remediation and modern RAP/CDS/Fiori, backed by ABAP Enclave, private on-prem AI that keeps your source on your network. Already live on S/4HANA? We keep it clean.
ABAP Enclave
Direct table write + sy-uname — not cloud-ready
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lv_user = sy-uname. RAP + released API — Clean Core, upgrade-safe
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FIELDS ( status ) WITH lt_update.
lv_user = cl_abap_context_info=>get_user_technical_name( ). The model runs on your hardware — your ABAP source never leaves the network.
SAP ECC support ends 2027. The teams that win move early — before rates spike and specialists run out.
Private AI, Clean Core consulting, training and open-source tools — pick one or combine them.
Make upgrades routine and cut maintenance cost: a fixed-scope engagement that scores how far your custom code sits from Clean Core (SAP standard kept untouched, with custom needs built beside it), then fixes the highest-risk findings — ATC (SAP's code-quality checker), RAP/CDS, Fiori, integrations.
Private, on-prem AI for ABAP teams: a locally hosted open-weight model wired into VS Code, plus a CLI of capability modules (ATC triage, test generation, documentation) — with abaplint enforcing Clean ABAP. No ABAP source leaves your network, and there's no per-seat AI licence.
Build the skills in-house so the modernization sticks: an interactive ABAP course — 17 modules, a readiness self-audit, a skills matrix, and live abaplint (an open-source ABAP code checker) exercises — for developers and the business alike.
Free, ready-to-use building blocks that save your team weeks: 39 cherry-pickable ABAP/RAP utilities plus 20 cookbooks and code generators — each tagged for Clean Core readiness. MIT-licensed (free to use, change and ship).
The patterns that block ABAP Cloud (SAP's cloud-safe development model) — and the released, low-risk way out of each.
“We can't move to the cloud — our custom code is ancient.”
Direct writes to SAP tables, old-style Dynpro screens, sy-uname (the logged-in user) and unreleased, upgrade-fragile APIs everywhere.
“It takes months to add a screen to a table app.”
Hand-built Dynpro screens, ALV grids and function modules, with no scaffolding to speed it up.
“Every batch run is BDC fragility — a screen changed and it broke.”
BDC / CALL TRANSACTION — brittle scripts that replay GUI screens — tied to exact screen field layouts.
“ATC throws hundreds of findings and we don't know where to start.”
No triage; ABAP_CLOUD_DEVELOPMENT_DEFAULT / S/4HANA findings treated as one big wall.
“The business can't see its data without us exporting files.”
No OData, no analytical model — reporting means a manual spreadsheet drop.
“Our reports time out and the DB team says we query wrong.”
SELECT *, N+1 loops in the app layer, and inefficient sorts.
Code-quality findings driven to zero, brittle screen-automation (BDC) retired for modern apps, a GUI-only report reborn as a browser app, slow nightly jobs made fast. Walk through representative engagements and the released, low-risk path behind each.
No commitment. Measure where you stand, then talk to us when you're ready.
Answer a short questionnaire about your custom code — direct table writes, brittle screen-automation (BDC), dynamic SQL, and whether you run SAP's code-quality checker (ATC) — and get a Clean Core readiness score plus a prioritized, worst-first remediation list.
Take the readiness auditEvery common ABAP bad habit mapped to a concrete fix — a tool, a released API, or a step-by-step how-to. The fastest way to see what a clean core looks like in practice.
Get the playbookThe reasons small and mid-size SAP teams choose a practitioner who ships software.
You work directly with a senior ABAP engineer who has shipped the tools and the training — not a rotating team of juniors.
Engagements are scoped and priced up front. No open-ended day rates, no surprise overruns.
Adopt the cloud-safe subset now and migrate the rest module by module. The business keeps running.
Code, patterns, CI guardrails and an upskilled team stay with you. The tooling is open source.
Akshay Palimkar
Founder & Principal SAP Consultant
Akshay has spent 15 years building and modernizing SAP ABAP — from classic reports and BDC (brittle screen-automation scripts) to RAP and CDS (SAP's modern app and data layers) and Clean Core on S/4HANA.
Training per seat, fixed-scope modernization sprints, or ongoing capacity.
Upskill the whole team on Clean Core.
$149 per seat
Know exactly where you stand.
from $6,000 fixed scope
Remediate the highest-risk findings, de-risked.
from $15,000 fixed scope
Already live on S/4HANA? Stay clean.
from $2,500 per month
Private AI, stood up on your hardware.
from $12,000 setup · optional retainer
Ongoing modernization capacity.
from $6,000 per month
Free readiness audit
Score your codebase against Clean Core in a few minutes — no sign-up to start.
Open-source utilities
39 cherry-pickable ABAP/RAP utilities and 20 cookbooks, MIT-licensed and free forever.
ABAP Enclave kit
Air-gapped, on-prem AI for ABAP — Modelfile, Continue/abaplint config, a one-command installer and a pip CLI. MIT-licensed; the private-AI engagement is scoped to your landscape.
Indicative starting prices — every engagement is scoped and quoted before any commitment.
Going live on S/4HANA isn't the finish line for Clean Core — it's the start. Why converted systems drift out of compliance, and how continuous governance keeps every upgrade a non-event.
SAP ECC mainstream maintenance ends in 2027. Here's a custom-code migration plan for small and mid-size teams that de-risks the move to S/4HANA — incrementally, without rewriting everything.
The handful of code issues most likely to block your SAP cloud move — flagged by ATC, SAP's code-quality checker — and the official, upgrade-safe replacement for each.
Book a free 30-minute scoping call. We'll look at your landscape and show you the fastest, lowest-risk path to a clean S/4HANA core.