  A spherical-symmetric gamma-ray emission from the central region of the
Galaxy has been recently identified in Fermi-LAT data, and initially associated
to dark matter particle annihilations. Guided by the evidence for a high gas
density in the inner kpc of the Galaxy correlated with a very large Supernova
rate, and hence with ongoing cosmic-ray acceleration, we investigate instead
the possibility of addressing this excess in terms of ordinary cosmic-ray
sources and standard steady-state diffusion. We alter the source term, and
consistently the correlated gamma-ray emissions, in the context of a
template-fitting analysis. We focus on a region of interest (ROI) defined as:
$|l|<20^{\circ}; \hspace{5mm} 2^{\circ}<|b|<20^{\circ},$ with $l$ and $b$ the
Galactic longitude and latitude coordinates. We analyze in detail the overall
goodness of the fit of our framework, and perform a detailed direct comparison
against data examining profiles in different directions. Remarkably, the test
statistic of the fit related to our scenario turns out to be as good as the
Dark Matter one in the ROI here considered.
