SAP S/4HANA Administration

Manage and maintain your SAP S/4HANA system! Understand the architecture of the ABAP platform, from its technical requirements to your options for configuration. Set up the system landscape, administer the client and database, and maintain your instances. Put proper security in place using authorizations, user profiles, encryption, and more. From archiving to virtual systems, this is the A-to-Z guide you need to perform all essential administration tasks in SAP S/4HANA.

• Get hands-on guidance for managing the SAP S/4HANA system Configure system processes, clients, instances, and users
• Maintain the database, archive data, set up security, monitor and tune the system, and more

System Landscape Setup
Get step-by-step instructions for setting up your landscape. Define background jobs in the ABAP platform, configure the transport management system, create clients, maintain instances, and more.

Security
Set up users and user groups in SAP S/4HANA and assign their corresponding authorizations. Implement single sign-on, restrict access to critical components, audit the system, and configure encryption.

Database Administration
Maintain the underlying SAP HANA database using the SAP HANA cockpit, SAP HANA Studio, and DBA Cockpit. Manage the database by performing data distribution and transfer and by archiving inactive data.

Monitoring, Performance Tuning, and More
There’s so much more to administration! Keep an eye on your system with logs and traces. Tune performance with memory management and load distribution. Learn to copy an existing SAP S/4HANA system. Explore support packages, add-ons, and SAP Support Portal. It’s all here!

• ABAP platform
• System landscape
• Clients
• Instances
• Users and authorizations
• Security
• Monitoring
• Performance tuning
• Database administration
• Data archiving and transfer
• Frontend components

Mark Mergaerts is a principal technical consultant at Expertum and has more than 20 years of SAP experience. His activities concentrate on system administration, database management, performance, upgrades, and platform and Unicode migrations. He has written five other books for SAP PRESS.

Bert Vanstechelman is a partner of and principal technical consultant at Expertum and is the founder of Logos Consulting, now a part of Expertum. He has more than 20 years of SAP experience. Bert specializes in platform migrations, SAP installations, release upgrades, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP Supply Chain Management, SAP HANA, and OS/DB migrations. Bert is an advisor for SAP Professional Journal and an SAP Solution Manager Expert. He has written five other books for SAP PRESS.