SAP Application Maintenance
What Is Application Maintenance?
Application maintenance involves updating, modifying, and re-assessing software applications to correct faults or improve performance. It focuses on bug fixing, implementing new features, modifying software files, improving performance, correcting faults, and boosting application quality. The main goal is to ensure a bug-free application for users.
What Is SAP Application Maintenance?
SAP application maintenance practices help keep SAP systems running as they should. When maintenance processes are ineffective, critical business applications can become unavailable and disrupt business operations.
What Is Application Maintenance?
Application maintenance involves updating, modifying, and re-assessing software applications to correct faults or improve performance. It focuses on bug fixing, implementing new features, modifying software files, improving performance, correcting faults, and boosting application quality. The main goal is to ensure a bug-free application for users.
What Is SAP Application Maintenance?
SAP application maintenance practices help keep SAP systems running as they should. When maintenance processes are ineffective, critical business applications can become unavailable and disrupt business operations.
SAP Solution Manager is a centralized application maintenance and lifecycle management solution used to implement, support, operate, and monitor SAP enterprise applications. SAP Solution Manager provides integrated content, tools, methodologies, and access to SAP systems.
SAP Application Maintenance Services (AMS) are provided by various vendors to SAP customers that need to outsource some or all of their SAP enterprise application maintenance. AMS range from on-demand SAP support through full application outsourcing and managed cloud, including application enhancements and optimization.
SAP explains that SAP application maintenance can be used to define the sequence of the calls sent by the SAP system to the specified partner application in order to handle a particular function. The storage system supplier typically performs this activity.
For SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure, SAP recommends users develop an application maintenance strategy for multiple releases of an application. After the quality assurance team has run acceptance tests, users should set up a maintenance track for the first release of the application. This means that users can start developing the next release in the development track.
Further Resources for SAPinsiders
Managing the Challenges of Payroll Application Maintenance. In this article, SAP consultant Satish Badgi explains how to plan for and execute an application maintenance strategy for local and global SAP payroll landscapes.
Maintenance Automation in SAP System Environments. In this webinar, Ricardo Garcia Cavero, Principal Portfolio Architect at Red Hat, discusses end-to-end maintenance automation and strategies for maximizing maintenance operations in SAP system environments.
SAP Announces Extension of Mainstream Maintenance for SAP ERP 6.0. SAPinsider Vice President and Research Director Robert Holland writes about SAP’s decision to provide mainstream maintenance for SAP ERP 6.0 and other core applications of SAP Business Suite 7 until the end of 2027. This will be followed by optional extended maintenance available until the end of 2030.
Vendors that can help SAP customers with application maintenance include: Deloitte, Genexus International, Infosys, NTT Data Business Solutions, Rackspace Technology, and Red Hat.
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Move Beyond “Drag and Drop” with the OM Maintenance Expert Mode
In the second of a two-part series about viewing and maintaining Organizational Management (OM) structures in SAP HR, the author covers the Expert mode of maintenance. Using screenprints, he explains the Expert mode’s functionality as well as its benefits and drawbacks. The following is the second of a two-part series on viewing and maintaining Organizational...…
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Retrieve the Details of Table or View Maintenance Generators in a Single Screen
Use ABAP code to create a utility that provides you the details of having more than one table or view maintenance generator in a single screen. With it, you can view all the table and view maintenance generator details that you have created in your system or that are already available in the standard system....…
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Quickly Develop SAPUI5 Applications with AppBuilder
Ameya Pimpalgaonkar shows how to use AppBuilder, which is a proof-of-concept tool that SAP has released to help developers adopt SAPUI5. Key Concept SAP AppBuilder is a browser-based tool for rapid SAPUI5 application development. It allows you to concentrate on application functionality rather than worrying about user interface (UI) design by providing UI drag-and-drop features....…
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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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Configure SAPSprint for Secure Server-Based Printing on Windows
You can have as wide and varied a range of printing needs as you have business needs. Learn about the available SAPSprint options — what they are and what they do — so you can help your organization meet its specific printing needs. Key Concept Secure Network Communications (SNC) integrates an external security product with...…
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Maintain an Asset Hierarchy Using the Plant Information Catalog in SAP MII
Learn how to create, maintain, and consume a Plant Information Catalog (PIC) hierarchy in SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII). Discover how to integrate shop floor data and enterprise data from SAP ERP in the PIC. Key Concept Plant Information Catalog (PIC) is a framework provided by SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII)...…
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Lessons Learned from an SAP HANA Cloud Platform Implementation
Key principles and facts are included in this overview of the design and implementation of a cloud application on SAP HANA Cloud Platform. Key Concept Applications consume and expose web service application program interfaces (APIs) that facilitate the re-usability of the capabilities of an application and support the integration into other applications. The following solution...…
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SAP Details End of Maintenance Plans for Business Suite
In February 2020, SAP announced the extension of mainstream maintenance for core Business Suite applications until the end of 2027. Prior to the announcement a significant proportion of SAP’s customer base had been pushing for an extension as there were just five years until the original end of maintenance date was reached. But, despite the…
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Making Custom Themes Future Ready Using SAP UI Theme Designer
Obtain clarity on the steps to follow for applying a custom theme to any SAPUI5/HTML5-based applications both in the cloud and on premise. Learn some best practices for creating custom themes that are future ready and the multiple deployment options of the UI theme designer. Key Concept The UI theme designer is a browser-based tool...…
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Managing the Challenges of Payroll Application Maintenance
Companies that implement SAP payroll also have to plan and execute a strategy for application maintenance of the payroll systems. When implementing it globally, they have even bigger challenges for keeping the payroll applications up to date with regulatory and other changes. Compared to other applications, payroll applications need higher maintenance and upkeep due to...…
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