SAP Administration
What Is Administration?
System administration is the upkeep, configuration, and reliable operation of computer systems, especially multi-user computers, such as servers. Administration ensures uptime, performance, resources, and security of computers and servers while staying within a set budget.
What Is SAP Administration?
SAP administration ensures the reliability, performance, management, and support of the SAP application environments. SAP administrator responsibilities include application and system management, problem response, and capacity planning. They understand the technical infrastructure standards and requirements for integrating specific SAP modules.
SAP Basis is the system administration platform for SAP environments. The SAP Basis administrator is responsible for:
- Daily maintenance — review logs, troubleshoot problems, ensure system functioning.
- Job scheduling — schedule automatic backup jobs to be performed when user demand is low.
- Planning — adjust the SAP landscape before users are impacted, anticipate long-term trends.
- Projects — plan and execute system upgrades and migrations, test software updates to ensure compatibility with the SAP landscape.
What Is Administration?
System administration is the upkeep, configuration, and reliable operation of computer systems, especially multi-user computers, such as servers. Administration ensures uptime, performance, resources, and security of computers and servers while staying within a set budget.
What Is SAP Administration?
SAP administration ensures the reliability, performance, management, and support of the SAP application environments. SAP administrator responsibilities include application and system management, problem response, and capacity planning. They understand the technical infrastructure standards and requirements for integrating specific SAP modules.
SAP Basis is the system administration platform for SAP environments. The SAP Basis administrator is responsible for:
- Daily maintenance — review logs, troubleshoot problems, ensure system functioning.
- Job scheduling — schedule automatic backup jobs to be performed when user demand is low.
- Planning — adjust the SAP landscape before users are impacted, anticipate long-term trends.
- Projects — plan and execute system upgrades and migrations, test software updates to ensure compatibility with the SAP landscape.
A Basis administrator can also play a role in cost control, IT strategy, and business policy.
Additional Resources for SAPinsiders
The Basics of Basis Administration: Architecture, Monitoring, Troubleshooting, and More! This presentation answers questions about Basis administration to ensure your SAP landscape runs smoothly and efficiently. The presentation provides the groundwork for Basis administration success as well as new tips and techniques to add to the admin toolbox. It also explains the standard architecture for small, medium, and large SAP landscapes and how to ensure that you have the correct server equipment and infrastructure needed to support your SAP landscapes.
What is AIOps for SAP? SAP Basis teams are being asked to do more than ever before, maintaining increasingly complex systems using increasingly outdated tools. This presentation shows how artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) can help Basis teams shift to proactive IT, predicting and preventing incidents before they occur.
An Advanced Guide to Administering, Monitoring, and Performance Optimization of an SAP HANA System. In this presentation, Kurt Hollis with Deloitte takes a deep dive into SAP HANA administration and master techniques and tools for effectively analyzing issues, monitoring the workload, and overall management of SAP HANA systems, including multi-tenant databases. Hollis explains how to leverage the SAP HANA cockpit and studio for security, user management, high-availability administration, system maintenance, and performance optimization.
Vendors that can help SAP customers with SAP administration: Accenture, APOS Systems, Deloitte, Managecore, and Soterion.
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Basis & SAP Administration: Case study: Iron fist in a velvet glove — IaaS service-level enforcement at the U.S. Department of the Interior
Get practical tips from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) experience working collaboratively with its cloud service provider to craft workable incentive and disincentive structures for service-level agreement (SLA) enforcement. Click this link to view the slides from this session — Admin2017_Knight_Casestudyironfistinavelvetglove. Heather Knight If you have comments about this article or publication, or...…
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Basis & SAP Administration: Case study: Migrating a large U.S. federal enterprise system to the cloud: Benefits, pitfalls, and lessons learned
Review the migration of the U.S. Department of the Interior’s agency-wide ERP from government data centers to commercial cloud-based hosting. Click this link to view the slides from this session — Admin2017_Campbell_Casestudymigratingalarge. Bill Campbell If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the...…
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Basis & SAP Administration: Case study: Practical lessons from thyssenkrupp’s implementation and rollout of SAP Fiori transactional apps
Gain valuable strategic and technical insight from thyssenkrupp’s recent SAP Fiori implementation. Learn how the company determined desired functionalities to cover business needs. Click this link to view the slides from this session — Admin2017_Woo_Casestudypracticallessons. Paul Woo If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea,...…
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Basis & SAP Administration: Case study: Tools and strategies Microsoft uses to significantly reduce planned downtime
Find out how Microsoft leverages the SAP zero downtime option (ZDO) to reduce the downtime for SAP deployments substantially. Click this link to view the slides from this session — Admin2017_Ghorpade_Casestudytoolsandstrategies. Sachin Ghorpade If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor....…
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Basis & SAP Administration Collection 2019
7 articles to help you better utilize, manage, and secure SAP landscapes on-premise and in the cloud.
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Avoid SAP HANA System Surprises with a Standard Operating Procedure Checklist
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Technical Considerations for Executing an SAPUI5 Project
Follow these best practices and tips outlined by Ameya Pimpalgaonkar if you are planning to execute an SAPUI5 project. See how an SAPUI5 project differs from a traditional project and why the design process is essential if you want to avoid technical errors. Key Concept It is essential that all SAPUI5 projects begin with a...…
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Configure SAPSprint for Secure Server-Based Printing on Windows
You can have as wide and varied a range of printing needs as you have business needs. Learn about the available SAPSprint options — what they are and what they do — so you can help your organization meet its specific printing needs. Key Concept Secure Network Communications (SNC) integrates an external security product with...…
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How to Setup Demand Planning in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization
SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization, demand planning allows a business to perform forecasting of their materials while considering all the factors that affect the demand. Demand planning is periodic and contains multi-step processes such as data gathering, statistical analysis, reviewing market intelligence reports, and performing adjustments against budgeted forecast to drive material requirements planning. SAP…
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Troubleshoot the Three SAPSprint Root Error Categories for Server-Based Printing on Windows
A failed printout can delay or disrupt important meetings or cause you to miss deadlines. See how to avoid printer failures when using SAPSprint by analyzing the three most common types of errors. Also find answers to common SAPSprint issues in the SAPSprint FAQs. Key Concept Processing in SAPSprint involves generating print data via the...…
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