Introduction to Sap Basis

SAP stands for "Systems Applications Products".
SAP is O.S Dependent.

BASIS stands for "Business Application Software Integrated Solutions".

• Sap Basis is the middle ware tool for Applications, Operating systems and Database.
• Sap Basis refers to the administration work of Sap system that includes activities like installation and configuration, load balancing and Monitoring the SAP applications running on Java stack and Sap ABAP.
• Basis supports operating systems like Microsoft windows,Unix flavours, server edition etc and databases like Oracle, DB2, Informix, Maxdb, Microsoft SQL Server etc..
• some of the basis relate tasks are mention below: 

1. Client related tasks(create, copy, delete, import/export...)
2. Background jobs scheduling, job monitoring, job deletion etc.
3. Creating users locking and unlocking users changing user passwords etc.
4. Database related tasks like backups, restores, monitoring etc.
5. Monitoring the Sap applications.
6. System Logs monitoring. 
7. Performance tuning
8. System installation and configuration.
9. SAP license maintenance.
10. Maintaining STMS related tasks.
11. Profile and operation mode maintenance
12. Applying support patches, upgrading and installing add-ons, kernel versions.
13. SNOTE applying and removing errors.
14. System copy,
15. System refresh ,etc