Training · 1 day
The 2027 Readiness Briefing
1 day
Any size — keynote sessions scale; the afternoon works best under ~25.
On-site, virtual or hybrid
from $3,500 · per day + travel at cost
Who it's for
IT leadership, SAP delivery managers and the full ABAP team — the briefing is deliberately for both, so the roadmap is agreed in one room.
Format
Keynote + working session, leadership and developers together
Pick this one when…
You need to create urgency and alignment first — the team hasn't started, leadership hasn't budgeted upskilling, or both are underestimating the change.
What the team can do afterwards
- 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
- Leadership answers to the budget, risk and timeline questions — in the same room as the team
The 1 day, day by day
Module codes (M01–M14, B01–B03) reference the Clean Core Academy curriculum — the same backbone available to the team digitally before and after the engagement.
The 2027 reality — what actually changes
B01- ECC mainstream maintenance ends 2027 (extended to 2030 at a premium): what that means operationally, not rhetorically
- What S/4HANA changes for custom code — and the skills gap most migration budgets forget
- Clean Core in plain language: keep SAP standard untouched, build custom needs beside it
- Stories from the field: where under-prepared teams stall mid-migration
The new ABAP landscape — a guided tour
M01 M04- Live before/after code: classic report → CDS view → RAP business object → Fiori app
- ABAP Cloud and the 3-tier extensibility model — where custom logic is allowed to live now
- Released APIs and release contracts (C0–C3): why half your current toolbox is off-limits
- What stays the same — the experience your team already has and how it transfers
Where your team stands
M08 B01- Readiness self-audit run live with the team — score, verdict, worst-first findings
- Skills matrix exercise: who is confident where, and the honest gaps
- Your custom-code risk profile: what an ATC baseline would say (ATC is SAP's code-quality checker)
- Open discussion: the objections, fears and 'what about my job' questions, addressed directly
The upskilling roadmap
B01 M14- A 90-day plan: which developers into which track, at what cadence
- Training formats compared: self-paced, instructor-led sprint, bootcamp, transformation program
- Governance that makes it stick: practice time, code review as teaching, ATC gates
- Leadership Q&A and commitment: owners, dates, next step
Every engagement comes with
- Pre-briefing call to tune the agenda to your migration stage
- All session materials and the before/after code samples
- The readiness self-audit results, exported for leadership
- A written one-page roadmap summary within a week
Available at additional cost
Taught by the practitioner who wrote it
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.
- 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.
Bring the 1-day briefing to your team
Send your team size and migration stage — you'll get a fixed, specific proposal with dates that work around your delivery schedule.