SAP Technical Modules List in Detail By MotivationTech Kitchens

 SAP ERP Technical Modules

A brief Article to get Common Understanding

What do you mean by Technical Modules?
These modules do not directly replicate actual business activity but provide needed support to functional modules. They enable technical consultants to maintain and tune your landscape, schedule tasks, troubleshoot performance issues, build applications, download and install updates, and plan and execute migrations.

SAP provides number of technical modules, here we get the insight of each of them, here we go:-

SAP HANA: 
The term HANA stands for "High Performance Analytics Appliance". SAP HANA has been developed specifically for analytical applications can be implemented at high speed. The initial database which still accounts for the core of SAP HANA has now become a data platform. It allows huge amounts of data to become quickly available and be used in real time. The characteristic feature of SAP HANA is the in-memory data platform. In this type of database management system, unlike other databases disks are not used, but the computer memories.

SAP SECURITY: 
SAP Security is a module that keeps certain kinds of data under lock and key while allowing access to others, working to ensure your SAP system is secure from both external and internal threats. There are three areas that SAP security deals with:

• Confidentiality, This means no data should be disclosed in an unauthorized manner.
• Integrity, No data should be modified in an unauthorized way.
• Availability, Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks should not occur.

SAP BASIS: 
BASIS is basically concerned with application layer of the three layers of R/3. (Presentation layer, Application layer and Server layer). Hence basis basically emphasizes the administration of RDBMS (Relational Database Management System – or simply the database sap system is using), client-server architecture and the SAP GUI.

SAP ABAP: 
SAP offers predefined functionality to meet business requirement. But predefined functionality may not sufficient to fulfill business requirement hence customization is needed. Standard or predefined functionality is basically set of codes which are already developed by SAP hence when customization is required to meet requirement either new codes are developed or existing standard code is copied and edited.

ABAP stands for Advanced Business Application Programming. It’s a programming language in which codes are written. ABAP runs on the application layer of R/3 system.

SAP BI & SAP BW:
In big organizations everyday huge amount of data is generated. In order to make strategic business decision, bosses need to analyse the performance/ position of business (backed by data). Data needs to be collected at one place and analysed to derive meaning full information out of it. But organizations face challenges like: data is generated globally, data is originated from various sources, data may not be uniform, data may be redundant/ duplicate as well. SAP BW/ BI offer solution to above problems.

Data across geographies/ sources are collected at one place called data warehouse (BW). BW is basically home to all data and hence BW stands for business warehouse.

Data is then cleansed to remove redundancy/ duplicity and data is aggregated and made uniform which can be used for generating meaning full report out of it. These reports provide meaning full information or intelligence and hence BI stands for business intelligence.

SAP NET WEAVER: 
Organizations have become big and robust. Organization might be using various SAP applications as well as non-SAP applications (other than SAP). In order to run business effectively various applications and servers need to interact with each other. SAP NET WEAVER provides a common platform where various applications/ servers can be integrated.

SAP CRM: 
CRM stands for “Customer Relationship Management” and is a set of methodologies and tools that helps to manage customer relationship in an organized way. SAP CRM is the CRM tool provided by SAP and is used for many a business process. SAP CRM is a part of SAP business suite. It can implement customized business processes, integrate to other SAP and non-SAP systems, help achieve CRM strategies. SAP CRM can help an organization to stay connected to customers. This way organization can achieve customer expectations with the types of services and products that he or she actually needs. It also helps to achieve 'Single face to customer', which means the customer get regular & actual information independent of channel through which the he or she is contacting your company.

SAP SOLUTION MANAGER (SOLMAN):
SAP Solution Manager(SolMan) is a module of SAP that provides functionalities like integrated content, methodologies, tools etc. to implement, operate, monitor and support an enterprise’s SAP solution.  SAP solution manager manages the SAP and Non-SAP solutions in the IT landscapes of an organization. It supports the underlying IT infrastructure and business processes. It is a powerful tool for SAP Basis administrators.


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