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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 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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SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation: Business-Owned Administration: AppSet and Dimension Management
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Look at how administration works from a business perspective in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver. Learn about application set management and dimension management and see how they relate to SAP NetWeaver BW. Key Concept Administration refers to the configuration of functionality to meet business requirements. Technical and system administration is 100%…...…
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Publish SAP BI Content More Easily with SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0
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Among the benefits of SAP NetWeaver ’04 is better integration between SAP BI and SAP Enterprise Portal (SAP EP). This overview explains what the integration of SAP BW 3.5 with SAP EP 6.0 Support Stack ’04 (and above) provides. Key Concept SAP Knowledge Management (SAP KM) is a part of SAP BI that coordinates information…...…
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ChaRM Changes in Solution Manager 7.2: How to Transition Your Existing ChaRM Configuration Risk Free
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Learn how the new Solution Documentation in SAP Solution Manager 7.2 affects the configuration and administration of Change Request Management (ChaRM) and what to address when upgrading existing ChaRM functionality. Key Concept Change Request Management (ChaRM) with SAP Solution Manager requires several major changes to remain active after the upgrade to version 7.2. Some of…...…
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How to Design SAP HR Structures to Work Best for Your Company
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/Project ManagementLearn the key concepts and implementation considerations in building an enterprise and personnel structure for your SAP ERP HCM implementation, upgrade, or global rollout. Use this article as a guide during design workshops to help project teams start in the right direction by learning how HR structures can work for their projects and how…...…
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Benefits Administration Made Easier with SAP-Delivered Enhancements
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Avoid cumbersome manual updates and complicated custom ABAP updates in your benefits administration functionalities by implementing the described SAP enhancements. Learn to improve flexible spending account administration, simplify benefits enrollment, and make group enrollment functionality more adaptable. Key Concept When SAP’s standard processes stop short of meeting your benefits administration requirements, SAP enhancements may help…...…
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Streamline Your Company Awards in SAP Payroll
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See how to maintain, monitor, process, and report on monetary and non-monetary awards in one infotype. Key Concept Infotype 0183 allows you to track both monetary and non-monetary awards in one place. This makes it possible to combine both types of awards in one report. If you have not implemented the Compensation Management module in…...…
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SAP Compensation Administration Application Supports a Total Compensation Strategy
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The Compensation Administration (CA) application in R/3 is designed to link employee performance with company goals. In this first article in a series, the author explains how to prepare for a CA implementation. Using the example of a management incentive plan, she shows how to budget for a compensation/award plan. Over the past decade, the…...…
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Going Beyond Traditional Benefits Administration with PlanSource
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Human Resources departments play a crucial role in closing the talent gap by attracting skilled employees. Organizations should prioritize solutions that offer positive user experiences, simplicity, and encourage engagement. Unfortunately, traditional benefits administration often falls short. Companies often fail to communicate their benefits adequately, or struggle to adjust benefits as employee needs evolve.
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Comply with Mandatory E-Invoicing with Confidence
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Over the years, companies have been replacing paper invoices with electronic versions to improve agility and to gain better insights into their business. In recent years, however, tax authorities and governmental organizations in an increasing number of countries have begun enforcing the use of electronic invoicing (e-invoicing) by law to combat fraud and save costs,…
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Q&A on Personnel Administration Configuration and Best Practices for Global SAP ERP HCM Implementations
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A growing enterprise is a thriving one, and one of the biggest — and richest — opportunities for growth lies in the global market. However, moving into a global market also increases the complexity of operations across lines of business, particularly when it comes to personnel. So what does this mean for SAP customers with…...…
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