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SAP BASIS Administration in Practice

How BASIS administrators keep enterprise landscapes monitored, patched and performing.

01The people who keep enterprise systems running

If SAP is the nervous system of a large organisation, BASIS is the team that keeps it alive. BASIS administrators are responsible for installation, configuration, monitoring and day-to-day operation of the SAP landscape — the servers, databases, transports and clients that business-critical processes depend on.

It is an operations role with strong demand, because almost nobody learns it at university. It is learned by doing, inside a real system.

02The day-to-day of a BASIS administrator

The work spans the complete lifecycle of an SAP environment, from the first installation through ongoing operations.

  • Landscape architecture: instances, clients and roles
  • Installation and post-installation configuration
  • Client copy, export, import and protection
  • Users, roles and authorisations with the profile generator
  • Transport management across the change and transport system
  • Background jobs, spool and output management
  • System monitoring, workload analysis and tuning
  • Backup strategies, recovery testing and kernel maintenance

03Why hands-on experience decides careers

BASIS interview questions quickly separate people who only read about SAP from people who have worked in it. Performing a client copy, troubleshooting a failed transport or reading a workload report in a real system is the difference-makers evidence. The SAP BASIS program is built around that practice from module one.

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SAP BASIS covers all of this with guided labs and instructor support.

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