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?
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.
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.
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Simplify Maintenance and Security with User Groups
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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An Overview of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, Version for NetWeaver 10.0
Are you planning to implement SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 10.0 (BPC 10.0), version for NetWeaver? If you are, you’re likely to have several questions. Learn about the updates in the functionality available in BPC 10.0. Key Concept SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 10.0 includes several new features and functions. Among the new functionality are...…
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Solving Training Administration Challenges by Setting Up Organizational and Job Structures in SAP SuccessFactors Learning
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. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a…
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How to Design an SAP Compensation Administration Plan
This second article in a series on the Compensation Administration (CA) application explains how to design a compensation plan. It takes you through the conditions and rules you need to create to control who is eligible for what awards, under what conditions the employee is eligible, what attributes of the employee or the job must...…
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Administration Duties are Modern and Flexible in Planning and Consolidation 10.0
Get a brief overview of the new administration setup in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 10.0, version for SAP NetWeaver, including updated features that affect models, dimensions, properties, hierarchies, script logic, transports, and more. Key Concept The Script Logic Editor is a new feature in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 10.0, version for SAP NetWeaver...…
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Configuring CMC Delegated Administration for Groups in BusinessObjects Enterprise 4.1
Learn how to configure and set up delegated administration in BusinessObjects Enterprise 4.1 for groups, and limit the availability of users and groups within the Central Management Console (CMC) to a specific sub-administrator group. Key Concept Once the delegated administration functionality is set up in the Central Management Console (CMC) of BusinessObjects, you can give...…
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Implement a Three-Pronged Approach for Successfully Managing Training Compliance in SuccessFactors Learning
Efficient management of compliance training is a critical need for many organizations looking at best-of-breed learning management systems. Discover how three SuccessFactors Learning tools can improve organizational training compliance through automated administration, at the same time reducing historically high HR administrative efforts and associated costs. Key Concept In SuccessFactors Learning, assignment types are used to...…
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Best Practices for Creating a Sound Strategy for Your SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator Go-Live and Support
Find out how to approach the final phases of an SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator implementation, including cutover, go-live, and support. In addition, learn some tasks that you can carry out after the accelerator go-live to get the most out of your investment. Key Concept Go-live is the most critical phase of your SAP NetWeaver BW...…
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First Look: SAP CRM Sales On-Demand
SAP CRM on-demand is a new SAP-hosted, Web-based sales force automation system. How does it compare with mySAP CRM? Key Concept SAP CRM on-demand is a hosted solution. It differs from the on-premise mySAP CRM in that you do not need to install software or hardware to run the system. You access SAP CRM on-demand...…
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Going Beyond Traditional Benefits Administration with PlanSource
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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