What Is SAP BASIS
What Is SAP BASIS
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What is BASIS?
Basis is a set of programs and tools that act as an interface with Database, Operating
system, Communication protocols and business applications (such as FI, CO, MM,etc). Full
form of BASIS is "Business Application Software Integrated solution"
SAP applications such as FI,CO,PP etc. can run and communicate with each other across
different Operating systems and Databases with the help of BASIS.
Alias of BASIS is SAP Application Server Technology and alias of NetWeaver is SAP Web
Application Server.
After adding java stack (the applications which are developed in J2EE,BSP,JSP,etc..)
enhanced security standard for business process. Both ABAP and Java stack can be
monitored from one platform. Netweaver supports standard protocols such as
HTTP,SMTP,XML,SOAP,SSO,WEBDAV,WSDL,WMLSSO,SSL,X.509 and Unicode
format(representation of handling text).
We can say Basis is the operating system for SAP applications and ABAP. Basis provides
services like communication with the operating system, database communication, memory
management, runtime collection of application data, web requests, exchanging business
data etc...
Basis supports a number of known operating systems (Unix flavors, Microsoft windows
server edition, AS400,z/OS,etc) and databases (SAP Hana,
Oracle,DB2,Informix,Maxdb,Microsoft SQL Server,etc)..
As we know BASIS is a set of tools. This tool has the following different functionalities:-
SAP Basis is a middleware tool for applications, operating system, and database.SAP Basis
consultant should 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 installation,etc..
SAP license maintenance.
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
This a generic list. There are many other responsibilities that a Basis consultant shoulders.
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