Service · Instructor-led training & speaking
Get your ABAP team S/4HANA-ready — before 2027 decides for you
Built for existing ABAP teams — especially developers with 2–5 years of classic-ABAP experience who are productive on ECC today but haven't yet shipped RAP, CDS or ABAP Cloud code. Senior developers who skipped the new stack, and the leads and managers who steer them, fit the same room.
A practitioner at the front of the room
Fifteen years building and modernizing ABAP — ECC to S/4HANA, BDC to RAP. Every pattern taught is one used on real engagements, not conference slideware.
He wrote the course
The curriculum is the module map behind Clean Core Academy (RAP Dojo) — an interactive course with before/after ABAP, quizzes and live code-checked exercises. Your team trains on it during and after the engagement.
Proof in public
Author of the open-source ABAP & RAP Utilities library and abap-mcp (offline ABAP Cloud readiness tooling). The claims in the room are backed by working, inspectable code.
Trained on your reality
Longer formats work directly on your custom code: an ATC baseline (ATC is SAP's code-quality checker), remediation clinics and a capstone built from one of your own objects — not a toy exercise.
SAP ECC support ends 2027. The teams that win move early — before rates spike and specialists run out.
- 2027
- SAP ECC mainstream maintenance ends — extended support to 2030 at a premium
- ~90%
- of ECC customers have not finished their S/4HANA move
- 30–50%
- rise in SAP consulting rates expected into the deadline, as demand outstrips supply
Four ways to bring Akshay in
From a one-day wake-up call to a two-week transformation proven on your own codebase — same curriculum backbone, different depth. Every format runs on-site or virtual.
The 2027 Readiness Briefing
One day to align the whole team on what 2027 actually demands.
- A shared vocabulary across leadership and developers: Clean Core, ABAP Cloud, RAP, released APIs — in plain language
- An honest readiness picture from a live self-audit, not a vendor slide
- A prioritized 90-day upskilling roadmap with owners and a cadence
from $3,500
per day + travel at cost
Modern ABAP Foundations Sprint
Three days that move a classic-ABAP team onto modern ground.
- Developers can explain the 3-tier extensibility model and release contracts — and apply them to real decisions
- Set-based, push-down SQL replaces loop-and-read habits
- Modern ABAP idioms (inline declarations, constructor expressions, clean OOP) in active use
from $9,500
fixed scope + travel at cost
RAP & Clean Core Bootcamp
A full week that takes developers from classic ABAP to shipping RAP.
- Each developer designs and builds a complete RAP business object — data model, behavior, service exposure
- CDS and AMDP used deliberately: code pushdown where it pays, with the performance evidence
- Extensibility decisions made the Clean Core way: released APIs, BAdIs and extension points instead of modifications
from $15,000
fixed scope + travel at cost
S/4HANA Team Transformation
The bootcamp, then proven on your own code — with the habits to keep it.
- Everything the 5-day bootcamp delivers, then proven against your own codebase
- An ATC baseline of your custom code with a prioritized, worst-first remediation backlog the team built itself
- One real legacy object rebuilt as a clean RAP application, demoed to leadership
from $28,000
fixed scope + travel at cost
Indicative floors — every engagement is scoped and quoted before any commitment.
Make it stick — digital sustainment & expert access
Available on every program at additional cost: wrap the live engagement in digital practice, and keep a line open to the expert when the team is back in the backlog.
$149
per seat · team licences from $2,500
Digital pre-learning & sustainment
Seats on Clean Core Academy (RAP Dojo) wrapped around the live engagement: assigned pre-learning levels the cohort before day 1, and 90 days of daily-practice access afterwards so the skills survive contact with the backlog.
- Pre-work assigned per developer, so day 1 starts at a shared baseline
- Post-program: the same modules taught live, as daily interactive practice — before/after ABAP, quizzes, live code-checked exercises
- Readiness self-audit and skills matrix visible to the team lead — progress is measurable, not assumed
- Works in the browser; no SAP sandbox required
from $1,500
per cohort per month
Cohort chat board & expert Q&A
A private board for the cohort after the engagement ends: developers post real questions from real work, Akshay answers asynchronously, and the whole team reads every answer. Includes the academy's built-in AI assistant for instant, around-the-clock help.
- Direct asynchronous access to Akshay — questions answered with code, typically within one business day
- Answers accumulate into a searchable, team-specific knowledge base
- Dojo Sensei — the academy's AI assistant — for instant help 24/7, grounded in the course content
- Month-to-month per cohort; most teams run it for the first quarter after training
In your office or on your screen
Formats flex to your team's geography and delivery schedule.
On-site
Akshay travels to your office or offsite. Full training days, whiteboard sessions and pairing at desks. Based in Ontario, Canada; travel quoted at cost.
Virtual
Live instructor-led sessions over your meeting stack. Full days split into focused half-day blocks across twice the calendar days, so attention — and your delivery schedule — survive.
Hybrid
A common pattern for the 2-week program: the intensive week on-site, the applied week virtual while the team works in its own landscape.
The person at the front of the room
No rotating bench, no junior delivering a senior's slides — every session is taught by the practitioner who wrote the curriculum.
Akshay Palimkar
Founder & Principal SAP Consultant
Lumivara is led by Akshay Palimkar, an SAP ABAP engineer with 15 years across on-premise ECC, S/4HANA (SAP's current platform) and the ABAP Cloud / BTP environment (SAP's cloud development model and platform). His focus is the unglamorous, high-stakes work of modernizing custom code without halting the business that runs on it.
Rather than sell slideware, Lumivara ships working software. The same hands that would remediate your code wrote an open-source library of 39 cherry-pickable ABAP & RAP utilities and built Clean Core Academy — an interactive course that teaches teams the patterns behind a clean S/4HANA core.
That means a Lumivara engagement is low-risk and practitioner-led: fixed scope, code you own, and a senior specialist on the work — not a rotating bench.
- Author of the open-source ABAP & RAP Utilities library — 39 modules, 24 cloud-ready.
- Built Clean Core Academy — a 17-module interactive ABAP modernization course.
- 15 years hands-on across ABAP, S/4HANA, RAP, CDS and Clean Core.
What teams ask before booking
Book Akshay for your team
Send the team size, your migration stage and the format you're leaning towards — you'll get a specific, fixed proposal, free. 2027 won't move; your team's readiness can.