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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