Operations
Back up and restore data
In the case of distributed or local SAP systems, it can also be helpful if departments or decentralized IT units can schedule their own jobs themselves. It is important that the associated approval processes can also be mapped and easily tracked. This brings convenience, flexibility and a degree of freedom without neglecting operational security. The integration of the business departments can relieve the IT administrator and turn background processing into an end-to-end process integrated into the organization.
The database layer manages all data in the R/3 System. It contains the database management system (DBMS) and the actual data.
SAP Basis refers to the administration of SAP system that includes activities like installation and configuration, load balancing, and performance of SAP applications running on Java stack and SAP ABAP. This includes the maintenance of different services related to database, operating system, application and web servers in SAP system landscape and stopping and starting the system. Here you can find some useful information about SAP Basis: www.sap-corner.de.
Provision resources in minutes instead of weeks
In order to reduce the complexity of the SAP basis operation and to accelerate and simplify the tasks of the SAPBasis and to create free capacities, standardisation and automation of the existing activities is required. Details can be found in chapters 7.7 and 9.5 of the Master's thesis.
The application servers provide the services for running SAP applications. In practice, companies usually decide to use a separate application server for each application.
"Shortcut for SAP Systems" makes many tasks in the area of the SAP basis much easier.
Server-side scripting in ABAP and Javascript.
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Let's look at these layers in more detail below.