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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Improve Maintenance of Your PA30 Records: Leave a Trace
Improve the processing of personnel data maintenance and avoid erroneous data entry by following a step-by-step procedure to configure actions and create a daily activity report that monitors HR data maintenance. Key Concept Infotype 0000 (actions) stores information about the actions the user performs on employee master data. Personnel actions infotype is a header record...…
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How to Perform Data Provisioning in SAP HANA Studio
/HANALearn the steps behind using two methods for data provisioning in SAP HANA: SAP BusinessObjects Data Services and the SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server. These steps serve as the foundation for the bigger task of deploying your first data model in SAP HANA. Key Concept Data provisioning involves selecting source metadata and importing its metadata...…
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Streamline Personnel Assets Assigned to Employees and Integrate HR Processes
Learn how to align personnel assets assigned to employees and streamline the associated organizational SAP ERP HCM processes. Key Concept Most organizations use manual techniques to assign assets to employees and take assets back from them when they leave the organization. To achieve this tedious task, they maintain a separate system, manual registers, or a...…
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SAP and SuccessFactors – An Overview
In this exclusive in-depth report, learn about SuccessFactors and what the acquisition means for SAP ERP HCM and your business. Get a detailed, comprehensive overview of SuccessFactors, SAP’s strategy, the future of SAP ERP HCM, and how the acquisition of SuccessFactors affects your business. It aims to dispel any myths or confusion around SuccessFactors and...…
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How to Use Quota Management User Exits for Complex Leave Requests
Gain insight into the capabilities of each of the 12 user exits available in the quota management module. Review expert recommendations on how to implement the quota user exits to meet your unique requirements. Key Concept The absence quota configuration is flexible and capable of handling highly sophisticated requirements. When the standard configuration does not...…
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SAP NetWeaver 2004s: New Analysis Authorizations Ease Administration
A new transaction in SAP NetWeaver 2004s eases the task of creating and optionally assigning reporting authorizations to users. Get expert advice about using transaction RSECADMIN. Key Concept SAP BI manages two different categories of authorizations. One is warehouse level and the other is analysis authorizations (previously called reporting authorizations). Analysis authorizations focus on what...…
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Configuring Time Quota Compensation in SAP ERP HCM
Gain a fundamental understanding of how employee absence quotas are paid to employees using standard SAP Time Management configuration and integration with SAP payroll. Compare two different compensation methods—quota-specific compensation and free compensation—to see an overview of the considerations that need to be taken into account when implementing this solution. Walk through the process of...…
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Part 1: An Introduction to Security Implementations in the SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform
Gain an overview of the enterprise security model in the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform. Learn the main differences between the three different types of security-access levels (e.g., object-level, application-level, and data-level) and discover the right case or business scenario in which to use each security-access level. Finally, learn how to create and use a security...…
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EWM Shipping Cockpit Planning and Execution: Overview
Learn how to configure and transact with the Shipping Cockpit Framework in SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) 9.1, starting with the planning stages (Shipping Cockpit Planning [SCOP]) through execution and monitoring (Shipping Cockpit Execution [SCOE]) in the outbound processes of your warehouse operation. Key Concept The Shipping Cockpit provides a single view in which the...…
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SAP HANA Optimization
Panelists: Christian Baessler and Jonathan Haun from Syskoplan Reply Date: Thursday, September 20 Sponsor: SAP HANA Administration Bootcamp Read the chat transcript below to get your SAP HANA administration questions answered by experts in the field, Christian Baessler and Jonathan Haun from Syskoplan Reply. Whether you are planning out your SAP HANA system architecture, determining the best…
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