Change management, compliance, and governance don’t disappear just because ERP moved to the Cloud. In fact, without the right strategy, the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) can introduce a new layer of complexity that threatens the very clean core it was designed to protect.
SAP BTP represents a fundamental shift in how organizations extend and innovate core ERP. By decoupling custom development from the ERP core and moving it into a Cloud-native environment, BTP is an important part of a larger clean core strategy. That is, keeping the central system lean, upgrade-ready, and more resilient against accumulating technical debt.
But there is a catch: a new platform does not mean a clean slate for the operational challenges surrounding it. The moment a BTP build begins — deploying Cloud Foundry applications, configuring integration flows on SAP Integration Suite, extending S/4HANA with side-by-side apps — classic software delivery problems reappear.