What do the SAP Basis techies do?

Basis is the environment that allows us to administer and manage SAP R/3 and the SAP Components

It provides
• Administrative Tools
• Runtime Environment
• Distribution or resource



There are four main responsibilities of Basis

Operating System which involves Installation, Networks, Security Admin, Printing, Generic Maintenance, Monitor system performance and logs, Virus protection, Backups and Disaster Recovery procedures

Database which involves Installation, Backup and Recovery, Performance Monitoring, Problem analysis, DB Re-orgs / Re-indexing, Monitor of free space, memory and connections, Checks for missing indexes / Creation of new ones, Creation and test of DR procedures and Checks on Database security

SAP R/3 System which includes SAP installation, Upgrades, Security Admin, System monitoring, Client copies, Transports, Batch management, Gui installs, Printing Admin, Monitor R/3 Alerts, Bug fixes, Patch application, Workload analysis, Performance Tuning, External interface management, Archiving and Generic user support

Hardware which includes sizing and all the hardware used.


All of the above I will need to know inside out and will blog as I go along.