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.

Assess Your Transport Management Requirements

Published: 20/August/2014

Reading time: 22 mins

Ivan Mans discusses some transport functionalities of the SAP Transport Management System and transport management solutions offered by third-party software developers. Key Concept Transporting configuration and development changes through an ERP landscape is done almost daily via the enhanced SAP Change and Transport System (CTS). Part of CTS is SAP’s Transport Management System (TMS), the...…
Make Your System More Available to Users with Key Figure Locking

Published: 15/February/2009

Reading time: 15 mins

Learn about the different locking options you can use in a planning area to eliminate the problem of locked data selections. See how you can share data with other users at the same time. Key Concept Locking prevents two or more users from accessing and changing data for the same selection at the same time....…
Track and Fix Incomplete Warehouse Processes Effectively with WAM

Published: 01/April/2006

Reading time: 12 mins

Warehouse Activity Monitor (WAM) can report problems with Warehouse Management (WM) objects, and it also allows you to do follow-up functions to help you fix them. Learn how to use WAM most effectively in your WM implementation with these tips. Key Concept Warehouse Activity Monitor (WAM) can serve as a reporting mechanism for all functions...…
Advanced Intercompany Elimination Using BPC

Published: 24/September/2014

Reading time: 44 mins

Discover how to implement an advanced solution of intercompany elimination using SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) business rule-based automatic adjustment functionality. Find out how this solution stacks up against other BPC elimination methods, such as US elimination and standard business rule-based elimination. Key Concept Intercompany elimination is the process for eliminating transactions resulting from...…
Integrate SAP Access Control 10.0 with the SAP Enterprise Portal

Published: 06/July/2012

Reading time: 14 mins

Learn how to configure SAP Access Control (AC) 10.0 to integrate with the SAP Enterprise Portal. See how to use the Access Request Management (ARM) capability of SAP Access Control 10.0 to provision users and assign roles to the SAP Enterprise Portal. The ARM capability helps users keep the same access request process for ABAP-based...…
Boost Your SAP Solution Manager Security with SOS Reports

Published: 29/March/2012

Reading time: 9 mins

Learn how to generate the Security Optimization Service (SOS) report in SAP Solution Manager 7.1. Discover the level of security in your SAP landscape and learn proactive actions you can take in your system to improve its security. Key Concept The SAP Security Optimization Service (SOS) report scans selected SAP systems for critical security settings....…
Creating and Integrating BusinessObjects Dashboards with the SAP Enterprise Portal for Better Implementation and Maintainability

Published: 08/November/2014

Reading time: 11 mins

Learn the best options for how to integrate BusinessObjects dashboards with the SAP Enterprise Portal. This integration is still relatively new to SAP (BusinessObjects was acquired in 2007) and SAP is still integrating it with the SAP NetWeaver Platform. You and your implementation teams learn about the best integration tools and methodologies to use for...…
- SAP EDI
How to Translate and Customize Compensation Statements in the SuccessFactors Compensation Module

Published: 02/December/2014

Reading time: 12 mins

Learn how to customize compensation statements with translated text and make changes in the heading of the statement itself, all without the need to involve Customer Success or incurring extra time and costs. Key Concept Customer Success is team of consultants and engineers from SuccessFactors who take care of complicated issues and who do different...…
Using SuccessFactors Employee Central Time Off Functionality

Published: 22/December/2014

Reading time: 29 mins

Learn about SuccessFactors Time Off functionality within Employee Central. This functionality is included in Employee Central to store the time information of employees per your company’s requirements. Gaining a good understanding of the Time Off module and its capabilities gives project teams an understanding of the capabilities and provides how-to solutions for requirements. Key Concept...…
Connecting BusinessObjects Dashboards Directly to SAP Tables

Published: 02/January/2015

Reading time: 12 mins

Learn step-by-step instructions for how to use web service connections to connect directly to SAP tables without using a BEx Query connection. Also learn how to use existing dashboard web-service functionality to pull data directly from SAP BW tables, and to read, write, and modify SAP tables via a web service. The benefit of this...…