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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Combat Chaos with a Lock-Down Security Policy in 12 Key Areas of Your SAP Environment
Security policies and procedures should be a central concern of all employees of an organization. Review important areas of the SAP ERP system that has to be driven by effective security policies. Key Concept A security policy is a formal statement of principles, rules, goals, and objectives of an organization aimed at securing the assets...…
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Considering BW for Your HR Organization? What You Need to Know
Companies are increasingly going to need HR reports based on information stored in various sources, including R/3, third-party tools, and the Internet. Business Information Warehouse (BW) provides that capability. The author has worked on numerous implementations of BW for HR, and explains some key considerations for companies thinking about their own BW for HR implementation....…
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Indirect Valuation Modules: Customize Your Wage Calculations
R/3 provides a variety of indirect valuation modules for determining the entry amounts for wage types. However, in many scenarios, the existing modules may not suffice and you may need to create your own. Moreover, these computed entry amounts are not stored in the same manner as other fields of an infotype. The handling of...…
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COBRA Processing Part 2: Use R/3 to Manage Enrollment and Billing
In the second of his two-part series on the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), the author discusses how to administer a COBRA plan. Specifically, he covers the enrollment and billing processes by recounting a participant’s journey through the COBRA life cycle. Key Concept The following is the second of a two-part series on configuration...…
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COBRA Processing Part 1: Recognize Qualified Events and Produce Enrollment Packages
SAP R/3 can help your business manage the COBRA law, which requires companies to offer health insurance to employees who have lost coverage. In the first of a two-part series, the author discusses the rules, terms, and notification process of the COBRA law. In 1985, the United States Congress passed the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation...…
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Part 2: Protect Sensitive Personal Information in SAP HR
Modify search helps in your SAP system to help reduce the risk of inadvertent exposure of personal identifying information. Key Concept The search help function in HR executes searches in two primary ways: PREM searches and InfoSet searches. The searches execute as part of standard SAP functionality that aid in finding relevant data for any...…
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Take Advantage of the Support for Multiple Rulesets in SAP Access Control 10
Learn how to use a business rule to influence the ruleset that is automatically applied to an access request based on defined attributes. Key Concept Request multiple ruleset is a functionality in SAP Access Control 10.0 that can be used to determine the appropriate ruleset to use in risk analysis based on defined conditions in...…
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Understand the Archiving Capabilities and the Standard Archival Objects of SAP Global Trade Services
/GRCLearn how to archive data from the SAP Global Trade Services system, which contains all the trade-relevant compliance and customs data, without affecting any feeder systems (SAP or non-SAP) that are connected to it. See how archiving that data enhances system efficiency and boosts performance, resulting in lower operational costs. Key Concept Transaction SARA, also...…
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An Introduction to SuccessFactors
SuccessFactors is a cloud-based talent management solution. Following its acquisition by SAP, many SAP customers began looking for more information about what added value SuccessFactors brings to their business processes. Specifically, users want to learn what functionalities SuccessFactors provides and how SuccessFactors can be integrated to their current on-premise SAP ERP HCM solutions. Key Concept...…
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Structural Authorizations with Nakisa
Learn how to implement structural authorizations for Nakisa. Understand the concepts and activities required to make structural authorizations work with Nakisa components. Key Concept The concept of structural authorization helps SAP ERP HCM users to define the population of the organizational structure that they can access. These kinds of authorizations use evaluation paths to determine all...…
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