SAP Basis is a foundation of essential functionality within SAP applications to drive everything from communications with the operating system. Considering the importance and growing application of SAP Basis in organizations today, let us check out on why enterprises need a SAP Basis team to work with.
What is SAP Basis?
SAP Basis is a technical foundation enabling SAP applications to function with middleware programs and tools to support interoperability and portability of SAP applications on enterprise systems and databases. It can be defined as an essential system administration platform for SAP environments from SAP R/3 through SAP S/4HANA. The entire purpose of SAP Basis is to make sure that all SAP systems in the environment run smoothly and consistently.
Who is SAP Basis administrator?
SAP Basis Administrator manages and administers SAP systems by remaining up-to-date on market trends and to propose solutions which are consistent with the modern business and operational environment. In practice, this essentially means to be responsible for the system runtime environment, managing cooperation between systems, acknowledging to users, scheduling and deploying system updates, exploring performance problems within the network, databases or operating systems, the architecture and backups.
Tasks and responsibilities of a SAP Basis administrator:
The following are some crucial responsibilities done by a SAP administrator along with a wide range of remote administration functions encompassing daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly tasks like,
- Configuring, monitoring, tuning and troubleshooting the current problems concerning SAP environment
- Creating and implementing SAP best practices
- SAP kernels upgrading
- OS level recovery and backup
- Network infrastructure management
- Support on cloud-based solution
- Disaster recovery
- Request and transport in SAP system
- User authorization and administration
- System landscape management
Trends on SAP Basis:
Transforming enterprises digitization and emerging new technologies would force SAP Basis administrators to adapt to ever-changing conditions. At present SAP system database migration to HANA Database, Migration and updating of the SAP application to HANA Platform (ERP to S4/HANA, BW to BW4/HANA) and Migration to cloud platforms are on progressive trends which are more noticeable on the market.
Why does your enterprise need a SAP Basis team?
An exclusive SAP Basis team ensures 24/7 support of SAP Systems in your enterprise. The primary advantage of having a SAP Basis team on your premises is that the team members would become familiar with the company’s infrastructure as they work with it every day. This enables a faster resolution on any specific problems without any downtime which are,
Security: Guaranteed security while working on complex IT projects
Competency: Enterprise benefits from proficient experts on SAP Basis projects
Economical: Reduction in fixed costs by adapting a team dedicated to IT activities
IT support: Outsourcing activities is no more a threat to IT department and the employees can focus on their key activities
Optimal productivity: Increased productivity and efficiency with implementation of new lagging functionalities
Guaranteed Proof of Concept (PoC): Implementing PoC helps in verification of potential benefits on each project
Moreover, SAP Basis team is capable of implementing new lagging system functionalities, without endangering the security, stability or operational quality.
Conclusion:
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