Typically, Basis experts take the technical lead in SAP upgrades and migrations. When a business upgrades or migrates to new SAP hosting or cloud provider, business doesn’t stop. The team needs to migrate the business data, configure, and test the new installation, all while keeping the former, source system running. As you can imagine, the business continues generating new data during the migration, which in turn, needs to be migrated to as well. In addition, the business may decide to change the database and/or O.S. platform to a newer technology like SAP S/4HANA, adding extreme complexity. These landscapes are incredibly intricate and can take several months to complete for a large organization. Without a highly-qualified SAP Basis team, the project can run into costly delays, or fail entirely.
Your SAP landscape is made of different modules, which accomplish different tasks within a business. Those modules rest on a common database and operating system, and work together to run day-to-day business operations. SAP Basis is the set of tools that link the software together, ensuring your SAP landscape can function as an effective whole.
In the cloud era, businesses aren’t generally aware of what’s going on in the backend in most off-the-shelf applications, including many ERP utilities. Your main concerns are functional and practical — you choose software for its features, integration with your tech stack, ability to address particular use cases, cost effectiveness and so on. Outside of development, what goes on behind the scenes doesn’t generally matter to decision-makers (assuming it doesn’t affect security, performance or stability.) Your SaaS provider handles provisioning, routine service and upgrades so you don’t have to.
Curtis Gaska is a solution architect on Symmetry's expert SA team, delivering complete SAP® technical solutions from upgrades to complex landscape implementations. Curtis pairs his sound SAP technical expertise with sales skills to knowledgably advise clients, and prospective clients of Symmetry’s services and product offerings throughout each stage of the sales cycle.Curtis has a unique ability to deliver technical knowledge to create customs solutions per the client requirements, by not only taking the technical specifications into consideration but also the business drivers particular to that organization in turn creating an optimal SAP environment. This skilled approached includes scoping, planning, and execution of various projects including Migrations/Upgrades/Installs, Hosting and ongoing Managed Services. He also stays abreast of the latest technologies such as road mapping solutions for client’s to leverage SAP HANA® in their current environment to then be hosted in Symmetry’s state-of- the -art Datacenter.
You can use an optimized business flow, rather than trying to shoehorn your processes into whatever boxes a SaaS provider has. You can use the SAP modules and third-party tools that are most effective for each department, and adopt the features you need, rather than assemble your enterprise landscape from a small set of stock tools. You can configure your landscape to meet complex security, compliance, performance and backwards compatibility needs, in a way that isn’t possible with off-the-shelf solutions. On top of that, you have an almost unlimited range of analytical and reporting tools available, combined with real-time monitoring and reporting in HANA.
With over 20 years of experience in SAP ecosystem, Hercules Bester is an Enterprise Architect at Protera Technologies. In his current role, Hercules gathers customer requirements and architects solutions to migrate and host the required systems in the cloud. Hercules has been in the SAP hosting ecosystem for many years with several prominent companies giving him the unique ability to understand how solution providers deliver systems and services.
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