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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System Tips for a Global SAP Payroll Strategy
Learn how to meet the common challenges that arise with deploying SAP payroll systems in multiple geographies and countries. See how to use your SAP ERP HCM and payroll functionality to standardize the implementation process across countries, but also to continue to meet local requirements. Key Concept SAP offers payroll solutions in more than 50...…
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How to Modify Transactions PA20, PA30, or PA40 and Infotype Screen Headers by Country
Learn how to modify transactions PA20, PA30, or PA40 and infotype screen headers to include required fields that are not standard. See how to improve SAP ERP HCM users’ experiences by providing employee snapshots, such as personnel area, supervisor name, and cost center in transaction PA20, PA30, or PA40 headers. This minimizes HR administrators’ workloads...…
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How to Prepare for a Comprehensive System Audit and Technical Review of SAP Access Control 10.0
Learn invaluable tricks and tips for overcoming top auditing issues specific to an SAP Access Control 10.0 system. Key Concept A system audit is an exercise performed to gain assurance that defined controls work as intended, thereby eliminating the likelihood of fraudulent or malicious activities in the enterprise system. It involves the verification of conformance...…
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3 Approaches to Create Global Ad-Hoc Queries
Learn the details on how you can transport user-defined ad-hoc reports from development to quality to production in your SAP ERP HCM implementation. Follow this process when you want certain reports (queries) transported and available to all users in all environments. For example, this approach is useful if you create a report in ad-hoc, but...…
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Speed Up the Subscription Extract Process from CRM to the Mobile Client
/MobileLearn how you can reduce the amount of time to process subscription data from mySAP CRM to the mobile clients by re-extracting it. Key Concept Publications are data repositories in which the system gathers and organizes data. A particular condition record table (e.g., price condition table A032) is an example of a publication. Subscriptions contain...…
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Tips for Ensuring SAP NetWeaver Portal Security
Ameya Pimpalgaonkar suggests you take these security measures to protect Knowledge Management, Web Dynpro for Java, and Business Process Management entry points into your system. Key Concept System users are non-physical users who do not have an ID and password. That means you cannot log in with a system user as you do with any...…
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Cutover to Production – From Project to Solution
When it’s time to go live with your SAP implementation, it is important that you have a clean handover of your project content to your operational solution. D. Russell Sloan shows how to minimize disruption to operational support and coordinate the release of the new functionality with things that may already be happening in production...…
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Change Data Basis Functionality Simplifies Product Classification in SAP Global Trade Services 10.1
Learn how to set up a numbering scheme in SAP Global Trade Services 10.1 to facilitate the assignment of tariff and commodity codes for products sold by your organization. See how completing this process in version 10.1 is different from older versions of SAP Global Trade Services. Key Concept Product classification is the process of...…
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Activating and Using Infotypes 0703 and 0704 Outside of Management of Global Employees
Learn a simple, straightforward approach for configuring employee dependent information in your SAP ERP HCM system for enhanced HR information and analytics, without any limitations and without having to fully implement Management of Global Employees. Key Concept Organizations start enhancing their HCM data for various reasons; for example, to provide better services to employees and...…
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Save Time on License and Maintenance Certificate Management with SAP Solution Manager
ManagerLearn how to use SAP Solution Manager to centrally distribute your license and maintenance certificates to all relevant managed systems. Automatic distribution eradicates the need to manually request the licenses from the SAP Service Marketplace and install them manually in each system. Key Concept SAP has licenses that need to be installed in the system...…
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