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With the criticality of SAP to the enterprise and the increasing complexity of SAP landscape, SAP Systems Administration is an increasingly vital function. Not only does this function have to manage today’s complex migrations including to SAP S/4HANA, they also have to ensure frequent updates and upgrades smoothly.
On a day-to-day basis, SAP Systems Administrators are are responsible for ensuring performance, reliability, and support of SAP application environments. Understanding the technical infrastructure standards and integration requirements is critical part of their job. They should also be managing capacity and ensuring performance along with the changing needs of the business such as seasonality. With the advent of cloud deployments, they often manage cloud capacity planning as well.
SAP System Administration
With the criticality of SAP to the enterprise and the increasing complexity of SAP landscape, SAP Systems Administration is an increasingly vital function. Not only does this function have to manage today’s complex migrations including to SAP S/4HANA, they also have to ensure frequent updates and upgrades smoothly.
On a day-to-day basis, SAP Systems Administrators are are responsible for ensuring performance, reliability, and support of SAP application environments. Understanding the technical infrastructure standards and integration requirements is critical part of their job. They should also be managing capacity and ensuring performance along with the changing needs of the business such as seasonality. With the advent of cloud deployments, they often manage cloud capacity planning as well.
SAP Systems Administrators monitor the performance of system applications. Automation and monitoring of performance, including new solutions such as AIOps, have entered the field.
With the pace of upgrades and updates ramping up, their role in change and release management has also become complex. They perform migration tasks such as change request review, software builds, release documentation, production issue resolution and tracking report distribution. This article Speed Up Process Change for SAP ERP talks about how to make ERP updates more agile.
In addition, they have a major role in developing and executing contingency plans in the event of system outages. They may have disaster recovery and business continuity plans and tools to ensure minimum loss to the business. They also provide support to the Service Desk.
SAP Systems Administrators are a key resource during deployment of new solutions and infrastructure. They often liaise with software vendors about security patches and updates. They develop plans to install these patches and test them. Keeping up with security patches and updates is very critical, as without them, the company is vulnerable to attacks. Read this article to understand the challenges of patching.
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Simplify for SAP communication channelsFeb 5, 2025 — In any working environment, effective communication is essential for maintaining efficiency, boosting productivity, and delivering effective collaboration. However, as the number of IT systems in use has proliferated many organizations have started to struggle with managing multiple communication channels and outputs. Frustratingly, they are starting to face rising complexity in their UI and frustration among […]
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Navigating SAP Licensing Audit ComplexitiesSep 27, 2024 — An SAP license audit verifies a business's compliance with SAP's licensing agreement, necessitating accurate license management to avoid over-purchasing and penalties, and outsourcing these audits can enhance efficiency and cost control while ensuring adherence to complex licensing regulations.
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And Boomi! You’re integrated: Composing an SAP partnershipAug 22, 2024 — Ed Macosky, chief product and technology officer at Boomi, talks SAP partnerships, the iPaaS offering, and why composability is here to stay. SAP users are making friends elsewhere. With SAP users very, very rarely able to stick to that one specific software ecosystem entirely, they bring in hyperscalers like AWS or Google Cloud, Azure or […]
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Developer’s Challenge Using Artificial Intelligence at SAPinsider Vegas 2024Dec 19, 2023 — The Developer's Challenge at SAPinsider Vegas 2024 is an in-person competition for programmers, software developers, and other tech professionals to create innovative solutions using Artificial Intelligence that could improve and give back to the SAP community.
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Register Now: SAPinsider Vegas 2024Oct 17, 2023 — The must-attend SAP end-user event is back! Make your plans now to join us and thousands of your colleagues at the beautiful Bellagio Hotel & Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, March 18-21, 2024. With hundreds of sessions programmed into key SAP topic areas, you can be sure you'll get the learning you and your teams need to master SAP.
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Impact 20: How ABB Streamlines Testing of Large Scale ProjectsFeb 8, 2022 — Mitigate business challenges
Hear from the global engineering company ABB about how they are mitigating their business challenges and successfully completing large-scale testing projects using Panaya smart testing solution.
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Impact20: Continuous Testing with Remote ExecutionFeb 1, 2022 — How can your organization keep pace? Test more, worry less.
The speed of innovation continuous to increase, driving rapid and relentless change for today’s ever-evolving IT landscapes, creating greater risk as IT and business teams scramble to ensure timely delivery. With Worksoft’s Connective Automation Platform, you can easily build and maintain automated tests, accelerating testing time without losing scope or volume. Learn how you can schedule and execute remote, continuous tests to intercept defects sooner and prioritize remediation—without sacrificing your nights and weekends.
Join us to explore how continuous test automation and remote execution can empower your organization to:
• Support CI/CD for Agile+DevOps and other digital transformation initiatives by automating regression tests and run on a daily, hourly, or weekly basis
• Schedule and execute unattended and on-demand tests remotely or in local test labs
• Centralize visibility with a high-level view of all tasks and resources and manage resources anywhere by
• Improve efficiency and optimization efforts by connecting testing to a closed-loop repository of testing and process data
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What is AIOps for SAP?Oct 22, 2020 — SAP Basis teams are being asked to do more than ever before, maintaining increasingly complex systems using increasingly outdated tools. Add to that the cavalcade of data these systems generate and you find that the job of IT operations is exceeding the capacity of even the most capable teams.
But you probably didn’t need us to tell you that.
That’s where AIOps comes in: In this session, you’ll learn everything you need to know to begin your AIOps journey, including:
- What is AIOps and how can it help in SAP operations
- How AIOps enables a shift to proactive IT, predicting and preventing incidents before they occur
- What to look for when choosing an AIOps solution
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How to Create Outgoing Quality CertificatesMay 28, 2015 — The option to print the results of a quality inspection of a material optimizes the business processes of a company by integrating supply chain activities. Learn how to set up the quality management (QM) master data needed to create an outgoing quality certificate. Key Concept An outgoing quality certificate is a company’s official document to […]
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