What is SAP BASIS and it's role?

SAP Basis is the administration of SAP system that includes activities like installation and configuration, load balancing, and performance of SAP applications running on Java stack and ABAP. It also includes the maintenance of different services related to operating system, database , application and web servers in SAP system landscape and stopping and starting the systems.

Different SAP modules like Finance Accounting (FICO), Production Planning, Sales and Distribution, SAP EWM and other modules can integrate and communicate with each other through SAP Basis.

SAP Basis supports the installation and configuration of SAP applications on different operating systems like Windows, Unix, AS/400, etc. and different databases like SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2 for back end database.

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What are SAP Basis Responsibilities?

 

SAP Basis is a middleware tool for applications, operating system, and the database.

SAP Basis consultant should be able to do the following tasks:

• SAP application server monitoring, ABAP dump, and system log analysis.
• Performance tuning
• Database maintenance, Database backup schedule and restore
• R/3, NetWeaver, Solution manager (SOLMAN) installation,etc..
• SAP license maintenance (Security).
  
• SAP landscape, transport management system installations, etc
• Client creating, client copying, client deletion, etc
• Creating user, assigning roles, locking and unlocking users,etc
• Background jobs scheduling, job monitoring, job deletion, etc
• Profile and operation mode maintenance
• Applying support patches, upgrading and installing add-ons
• SNOTE applying and removing errors.
• System copy, System refresh ,etc

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