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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Easily Build or Change Infotype Headers in R/3
Understanding the structure of infotype headers and how to change them to meet your needs can improve efficiency and allow users to browse data more effectively. The author explains the steps involved in creating and modifying headers, including optional configuration if you want to take advantage of functionality such as the use of passport photos...…
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Fast Entry Demystified
Fast entry enables you to simultaneously create and edit the same infotype or subtype record for multiple employees. Using a substitution example, the author explains how to optimize the fast entry functionality. One of the most common questions that individuals have when they look at the SAP HR module is how to simultaneously create and...…
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Ask The Expert: Copy and Move Queries without Transports
Two of the most frequently asked questions about SAP Query involve copying and moving user queries. The author explains how to quickly copy queries across user groups and move queries between clients without the use of transports. Key Concept Dear HR Expert, How do I copy queries across user groups, and how do I move...…
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Implement Field-Level Security in HR Infotype Screens
Because SAP’s HR module is fully integrated with other SAP modules, they share data. Therefore, it is important to ensure that sensitive HR data is invisible to unauthorized users. The author explains how to create and configure several infotype screens to block data to some users and allow access to others. The article uses Release...…
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HR’s 5 Reporting Options in R/3: How Do You Choose?
Satisfying your company’s Human Resource reporting requirements is always a challenge, beginning with the assessment process through the selection of the right reporting strategy. Deciding which method is best begins with a proper assessment of the reporting tools available. Author and Executive SAP Consultant Danielle Larocca compares reporting tools available in your HR module: standard...…
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Keep Master Data Consistent with Configuration When You Make Annual Design Changes to Your Benefit Plan
Around this time each year, benefits directors begin dropping some current benefits and adding new ones. SAP Consultant Clay Molinari explains how to use standard R/3 function modules to deal with this annual dilemma. In a smaller organization, these changes can be done manually, but they must be automated for a larger company. He’ll show...…
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Payroll and Benefits Integration: Understanding Evaluation Dates
In benefits, cost information is presented in terms of expected or estimated amounts. A complex set of factors comes into play during payroll processing that can cause the actual deductions to be different. This article examines the integration between payroll and benefits so that you can explain to your end users why this happens. In...…
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Remunerating Multi-Rated Employees
The problem of employees who are remunerated at multiple rates is not new. To deal with it, the author proposes a model using R/3’s standard HR Personnel Administration (PA), Cross Application Time Sheet system (CATS), and Organizational Management (OM). You are part of the HR/payroll department of a large manufacturing/service organization. You have people in...…
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Unleash the Power of Dynamic Actions: Tips and Tricks to Get the Best Results
The Personnel Administration (PA) submodule contains a plethora of interrelated infotypes. Your business process may demand that changes made in one infotype affect the fields of another, or that they trigger an entirely separate activity. Imagine yourself in a situation where you may be required to create a tax infotype automatically for an employee when...…
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What You Need to Know About MDM-Portal Integration
Explore the four methods—MDM Business Package, MDM Web Dynpro Configurator, MDM Web Services, and MDM Java API—from which you can choose to integrate SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management (SAP NetWeaver MDM) and SAP NetWeaver Portal. Learn how and when to implement the integration method that best addresses your business structure, and then take that integration...…
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