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?

What Is SAP Administration?

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.

Discover the Compare and Adjust Functionality Changes in SAP Solution Manager 7.1

Published: 23/September/2011

Reading time: 12 mins

ManagerLearn how to use SAP Solution Manager 7.1 to run a comparison and adjustment of structure nodes between solutions and projects as well as keep your productive SAP solutions and projects synchronized and up to date. Key Concept SAP Solution Manager provides a compare and adjust feature to identify the differences between the structure and...…
The SAP Solution Manager Role Matrix Made Easy

Published: 13/January/2010

Reading time: 17 mins

ManagerLearn how clearly identifying SAP Solution Manager roles that address your organization’s requirements and support the future use of SAP Solution Manager functionalities can allow you to build a robust position-mapping role matrix. Key Concept After a successful implementation, SAP Solution Manager should run smoothly and provide transaction access to user groups with the proper...…
Reduce HR Admin Costs with Automatic Carry Forward Absence Quotas Using Time Types

Published: 13/January/2011

Reading time: 14 mins

Learn how to configure SAP ERP HCM Time Management and write personnel calculation rules and time schemas to automatically create a separate carry forward absence quota infotype (2006). The absence quota infotype allows you to carry forward absence quota balances every year without making any additional configuration changes or maintaining the date specifications infotype (0041),...…
Guide Your Implementation Project with SAP Solution Manager

Published: 05/May/2009

Reading time: 26 mins

ManagerLearn how you can best use SAP Solution Manager 7.0 (formerly called SAP Solution Manager 4.0) functionality for an SAP implementation project. Specifically, read about the details of the Implementation Roadmap and the activities that should be performed in each implementation stage using tools found in SAP Solution Manager. Key Concept SAP Solution Manager provides...…
Use Estimation and Planning to Make the Difference in SAP ERP HCM Implementations

Published: 15/October/2012

Reading time: 16 mins

ManagementUse these best practices and two matrixes developed from years of experience to make decisions about your SAP ERP HCM projects. Key Concept An estimation process includes isolating the factors that determine the set of days required to implement a project. The primary factors considered in the estimation process include the SAP ERP HCM modules,...…
What Can ACE Do for You? Lessons Learned from a Recent Implementation

Published: 15/May/2007

Reading time: 28 mins

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Create CRM Business Roles Easily with Web-Based Business Role Customizing

Published: 15/June/2008

Reading time: 15 mins

Use the CRM WebClient UI to customize CRM business roles. Understand the underlying concepts and test the customizing by assigning the user to a business role. Key Concept Business roles are roles that contain business content from CRM applications. Business roles are controlled by different elements that define which work centers, direct link groups, logical...…
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Collaboration Projects: An Overview of Business Process Flow, Configuration, and Integration

Published: 10/September/2010

Reading time: 20 mins

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What You Should Know About SAP BPC

Published: 01/September/2008

Reading time: 13 mins

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Four Easy Steps for Absence Quota Compensation

Published: 10/March/2010

Reading time: 10 mins

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