SAP BASIS Overview

Intro on SAP:

SAP stands for Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing.

SAP is the leading Enterprise Information and Management Package

worldwide. Use of this package makes it possible to track and manage, in real-
time End-To-End Enterprise Solutions.

SAP Software was Founded in 1972 by Wellenreuther, Hopp, Hector, Plattner and
Tschira.

SAP system consists of a number of fully integrated modules, which covers virtually
every aspect of the business management.

ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) is the default programming

language for SAP applications.

SAP is #1 in the ERP market. As of 2010, SAP has more than 140,000 installations
worldwide, over 25 industry-specific business solutions and more than 75,000
customers in 120 countries

Other Competitive products of SAP Software in the market are Oracle, Salesforce,

Microsoft Dynamics, Siebel, etc.

Advantages of SAP
1. Rich set of modules
2. Data integrity
3. Easy administration
4. Only one database
5. SAP supports all Databases and operating systems
6. Global Support 7 x 24 x 365
7. SAP supports Multi Languages
I.e.; almost all the languages available using UNICODE
8. One GUI for all R/3 systems
9. SAP supports JAVA
10. Easy add-ons (to add functionality to existing systems)
11. High security
12. User friendly
13. Common Programming Language which supports OOPs and ABAP.
mySAP Business Suite (SAP ECC, CRM, SRM, PLM, APO, SCM)

mySAP is not a single product but is a suite of products from SAP including SAP
R/3.

Other products in the mySAP product suite includes SRM (Supplier Relationship
Management), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), PLM(Product Lifecycle
Management ) , SCM (Supply Chain Management).

SAP Modules can be categorized into

 Functional Modules
 Technical Modules
These functional and technical modules are tightly coupled.

BASIS:

The full form of BASIS is "Business Application Software Integrated solution".

Basis is a set of programs and tools that act as an interface with Database, Operating
system, communication protocols and business applications or SAP Modules (such as
FI,CO,MM,etc).
Basis is the SAP version of system administration.
Basis is like the operating system for SAP applications and ABAP.
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.

In the earlier days, Basis was the set of middle ware programs and tools from SAP, in other
words, the platform. But, over time as SAP evolved the name got changed to SAP Web AS,
and then SAP Netweaver. Netweaver, as the name suggests, encompasses many different
functionalities within the platform.

One of the main components of Netweaver is still SAP_BASIS, the other three are SAP_ABA,
PI_BASIS (Basis plug-in) and ST-PI (SAP Solution Tools Plug-in).

Earlier, SAP systems administrators were called as SAP Basis Consultants, now as Netweaver
consultants.
ABAP programs are run on SAP's Netweaver application server (ABAP Stack), which is the
only publicly available ABAP runtime environment. Similarly Java programs are run on
SAP’s NW Application Server (Java Stack).

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.

Basis is the SAP version of system administration.

The key responsibilities of SAP Basis Administrator include:

• System installation and Configuration
• Load balancing on servers
• Performance management of different components
• Managing interfaces and integration with servers
• Managing servers and different services

BASIS Services:
Basis provides services like communication with the operating system, database
communication, memory management, runtime collection of application data, web
requests, exchanging business data etc.

Netweaver supports standard protocols such as

HTTP,SMTP,XML,SOAP,SSO,WEBDAV,WSDL,WMLSSO,SSL,X.509 and
Unicode format(representation of handling text).
Multi-Operating System Support:

Basis supports a number of known operating systems (Unix flavors,Microsoft

windows server edition,AS400,z/OS,etc) and databases
(Oracle,DB2,Informix,Maxdb,Microsoft SQL Server,etc).

NetWeaver Intro:

SAP Basis is the core part (Kernel) of Netweaver.

SAP Basis or Netweaver are Integrated Technology Platform for different SAP version

The new version of BASIS is called the Netweaver. (i.e) SAP Basis is now called as Netweaver
Application server.

→Till ECC 4.6, It was called BASIS (consultants working as SAP-Admin were called SAP-BASIS)

→From 4.7, SAP introduced Web functionality and in Platform they added Web Application
Server (WAS)

→From ECC 5.0 (mySAP ERP) Yr 2004, SAP Added more functionality to Support Portal
(EP)/Integration (XI/PI/PO)/Analytics (BW/BI). The whole Platform was called NETWEAVER
(NW).

SAP Netweaver is the technology and Integration platform of SAP solutions. In other words,
NetWeaver is SAP's integrated technology platform.

Alias Names: Alias of BASIS is SAP Application Server Technology and alias of
Netweaver is SAP Web Application Server.
In Netweaver, both ABAP and Java stack can be monitored from one platform.
It is the underlying technology for all the products in the mySAP suite.All the
products in mySAP suite can run on a single instance of NetWeaver's, SAP Web
Application Server ,also known as "SAP WEBAs."
Application Server – (Netweaver Technology Stack)

Single Stack – Either ABAP (OR) Java

Dual Stack – Both ABAP & JAVA.

ABAP Stack : Access SAP screens via T.code

Java Stack : NO T.code access. It’s Access via Web / Java