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The Security Audit Log (SAL) is one of the most important elements when it comes to security in your SAP landscape. With SAL critical and security relevant activities in SAP systems can be recorded and evaluated. The settings in SAL are relevant for secure continuous operation.
Outsourcing services for your SAP Basis operations offers many advantages. As SAP consultants with many years of expertise in plant engineering, shipping operations, insurance companies, upstream and downstream processes in the petroleum industry, retail, banking and many other industries, you benefit from our "all-round experience" from companies of all sizes, from corporate groups as well as medium-sized businesses.
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SAP SE offers various training courses and certifications for SAP Basis administrators and SAP Basis consultants. As an alternative to internal recruitment and training, companies can also turn to external consultants or even outsource the entire SAP Basis administration to an external team with experience in SAP Basis.
The decision to outsource a task or service should be taken not only in terms of cost, but also by assessing the competitive differentiation and strategic importance. Characteristics for describing the costs are the specificity of the task and the embossing by unit cost degression, i.e. decreasing costs with increasing number of tasks or performance. Of strategic importance are, in particular, those tasks and services which are difficult to imitate by competing companies. Figure 4 compares the strategic importance and cost advantages in order to arrive at fundamentally valid statements regarding the usefulness of outsourcing for certain IT tasks and services. In addition to this, as already discussed by Recommendation [A2], it is then worthwhile to establish a catalogue of criteria for evaluating and looking in detail at certain characteristics of the application or services. An exemplary catalogue of criteria can be found in chapter 9.6 of the Master thesis. Figure 4: IT Outsourcing Decision Matrix THE DECISION TO OUTSOURCE A TASK OR PERFORMANCE SHOULD BE MADE NOT ONLY IN TERMS OF COSTS BUT ALSO BY ASSESSING COMPETITION DIFFERENTIATION AND STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE.
With "Shortcut for SAP Systems" a tool is available that greatly facilitates some tasks in the SAP basis.
In contrast to an SAP ERP system, HANA systems consist mainly of web applications, which were considered optional in the previous versions.
The website www.sap-corner.de offers many useful information about SAP basis.
The first parameter determines the size of the storage area in which user contexts can be stored, and the second determines the size of the global area.