In today’s fast-evolving enterprise landscape, businesses are leveraging SAP to optimize their systems while maintaining a Clean Core approach. The SAP Clean Core strategy emphasizes minimal customizations, ensuring organizations can take full advantage of SAP’s innovation while reducing technical debt. However, many companies struggle to extend SAP functionality without compromising this principle.

That’s where Mirata comes in: As a zero-code platform, Mirata enables seamless integration with SAP, empowering businesses to automate work processes and collect data—all without modifying SAP’s core.

This blog explores how Mirata Digital Forms supports an SAP Clean Core approach and why it’s the ideal solution for enterprises striving to keep their SAP systems lean, scalable, and upgrade-ready.

What is SAP Clean Core?

SAP Clean Core is a strategic framework designed to reduce unnecessary customizations within SAP systems. It prioritizes using standard SAP functionalities, side-by-side extensions, and externalized business logic over on-premise code modifications.

However, many business processes still require customized logic, workflows, and user experience. Traditionally, this necessitated SAP core modifications, but in the Clean Core approach, these customizations are decoupled from Core. Custom logic, workflows, and user experiences can be built as extensions keeping the SAP S/4HANA core system standard and upgrade-friendly, avoiding “technical debt” that slows down innovation and complicates upgrades.

How Mirata Fits the Clean Core Approach

Mirata Digital Forms helps businesses extend SAP capabilities without modifying the core system. Mirata’s unique, patented approach encapsulates form, screen and dashboard layouts,  business logic and process workflows outside of the Core using the Mirata Designer.  Unlike traditional customizations that lock businesses into rigid SAP structures, Mirata’s platform works across SAP structures and adapts to changing business needs without adding technical debt. When SAP issues new releases, all you do is test since Mirata is forward compatible.

Real-world Use Cases

Case Study 1: Maintenance 

Currently, customers have 2 options when they deploy SSAM:

1) Hard-coding the customizations: this violates the Clean Core philosophy and makes the initial implementation expensive in terms of time and cost and causes upgrades to be effectively a re-implementation. 

2) Trying to use it “out of the box”: Unfortunately, “out of the box” seldom meets your business needs. 

In both cases, user experience is sub-par.  

Mirata provides the ability to configure SSAM using our zero-code Designer dramatically lowering implementation costs by > 50% and reducing the upgrade costs by > 80%.  All configurations are maintained outside of the SAP Core and outside of the SSAM Core and are forward compatible with new SAP and SSAM versions.

Case Study 2: After-market Service

Today, many processes are performed manually on paper and spreadsheets.  This results in the data related to service billing ending up in SAP at the end of the process, but none of the process details, intermediate data or compliance data are currently tracked. 

Mirata helped digitize the process of aircraft engine maintenance for a prominent A&D manufacturer.  Their process starts with an inspection, followed by a quality review, and all repair activities.  The process and data collected changes based on several factors including aircraft type and engine type and involves inspectors, quality supervisors and mechanics. 

With Mirata, the full process was digitized and no Core SAP Components were modified.  The business logic and workflow are contained in the Mirata digital process definitions and processed using BTP.  The digitized process now provides a detailed view of the entire process including process step details, intermediate data and compliance data, along with the service bill information.  Analytics can now easily be applied for better visibility and continuous process improvement.

Mirata is here to help you enable your business without disrupting SAP’s Clean Core system.

Zero Code Customization	The Mirata Designer provides an easy-to-use, drag-and-drop form builder that allows business users to create and manage digital forms and workflows. Instead of writing custom ABAP code, users can configure workflows, validations, and business rules externally, keeping SAP clean.
Seamless SAP Integration	With our BTP-Certified pre-built SAP connectors and framework, Mirata Digital Forms integrates with any SAP module, ensuring real-time data exchange without altering SAP’s core architecture. Forms can read, write, and process SAP data securely.
Process Automation & Data Collection	Business Users can digitize manual and paper-based processes, ensuring clean, validated data flows into SAP. This eliminates duplicate entries, errors, and inefficiencies, maintaining SAP integrity while improving workflow automation.
Scalability & Flexibility	Mirata’s cloud-based platform allows businesses to scale operations effortlessly. Unlike traditional customizations that lock businesses into rigid SAP structures, Mirata’s platform can work across SAP structures and adapt to changing business needs without adding technical debt.