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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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A Simplified Approach to Archiving Your Data
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Learn to set up an easy process to remove data that is no longer needed from your SAP system. It keeps your system space free for new data and improves performance without the need to add system resources. Key Concept You use archiving objects to archive files. The archiving object provides the data structure and…...…
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Leveraging the SuccessFactors Employee Central Rules Engine to Meet Solution Requirements
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Learn how to leverage the rules engine within SuccessFactors Employee Central. Configuring rules within Employee Central can be very useful for projects to be able to meet unique and company-specific requirements within their organization. Having a good understanding of the rules engine and its capabilities allows project teams to accelerate their understanding of the capabilities…...…
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SAP HANA Administration Chat: Kurt Hollis on Architecture, Monitoring, and More
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SAP HANA is an in-memory database engine and application platform that offers unique advantages for reporting and high-performance operations. Customers have to answer many questions in their path to running on SAP HANA. How can architect your SAP HANA solution to fit your needs? Once you are up and running, how can administrators monitor the…...…
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How to Archive Info Structures in SAP for Retail
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In a major retail site or store, data from point of sale (POS), the front-end system in the retail industry, is stored in multiple SAP tables and shares relevant data as a single POS database, known as an information structure (info structure). Because the database grows rapidly, it slows the SAP retail system and requires…...…
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Align SAP Time Management with Your Company’s Time Quota Requirements
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Comply with your employee negative leave deduction policies with this tutorial. Analyze how year-end adjustments affect SAP ERP and learn how to configure negative leave deduction properly. Key Concept Time quota in SAP R/3 refers to an employee’s leave entitlement. An HR time administrator generates and awards leave entitlement to an employee on a daily,…...…
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Effortlessly Manage Your Service-Oriented Architecture Landscape with SOA Manager
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Discover how to create templates for services configuration (profiles). Then see how to apply these templates (bundled in a business scenario) to services to create endpoints together instead of separate endpoint creation for each service. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) Manager, as a configuration tool for ABAP Web Services, offers additional configuration objects to easily carry out…...…
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How to Configure Eligibility Conditions in SAP ERP HCM Benefits
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Learn about the processes, configuration, and usage related to both dynamic and fixed benefits eligibility conditions in the SAP ERP HCM Benefits module. If a non-SAP system provides the time capture functionality, then infotype 2001 (attendance) has to be populated with the attendance hours for the dynamic eligibility functionality to work. Discover how to configure…...…
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Solving Training Administration Challenges by Setting Up Organizational and Job Structures in SAP SuccessFactors Learning
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Learn how setting up organizational units and job codes can help overcome some of the common SAP SuccessFactors Learning administration challenges. Use these simple steps to implement organizational units and job structures in the SAP SuccessFactors Learning Management System (LMS) module. This content is for Basic Access, SAPinsider Monthly Subscription, SAPinsider Annual Subscription, and SAPinsider…
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Improve Your System Performance by Archiving Data in BW: Part 1
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Archiving BW data reduces its volume, resulting in faster loads and queries. This first article of a three-part series explains the entire process to archive ODS or InfoCube data step by step. Key Concept Archiving is available with BW Release 3.0B and above. You can archive from InfoCubes and ODS tables, but currently you cannot…...…
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Simplify Maintenance and Security with User Groups
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User groups are a convenient technique to group users and treat them as one entity in terms of their privileges and behavior. See a method for setting them up in your system with some considerations from a security and user administration perspective. Key Concept Users can be grouped in different combinations such as those associated…...…
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