Recently, our team has seen a lot of staffing requests for SAP Basis expertise with buzz words like "Must have at least X S/4HANA project/deployment Experience". So we set out to bust the Myth of S/4HANA installation and configuration as something significant that requires special experience and skills beyond Netweaver Basis and HANA. We'll leave the judgment up to you if warrants some special skill or is it just like most new SAP products that came along for Basis over many years. Interestingly, S/4HANA is not much different in dictionary and codebase savings when compared to ERP 6.0 EHP7. We're publishing this blog to show you what it takes to get a small S/4HANA environment installed (e.g. IDES S/4HANA 1610 release), and more importantly how to use SAP monitoring to manage SAP performance as soon as it's up and running. Bear in mind, this is not about migration to S/4HANA which would be a complex discussion.
S/4HANA Installation Quickstart Guide and Monitoring S/4HANA
Posted by Terry Kempis on Jul 19, 2017 10:53:23 AM
Complex SAP Monitoring Made Simple in Minutes Without Gimicks
Posted by Linh Nguyen on May 3, 2017 9:25:33 PM
It's time for the SAP Monitoring challenge! How to monitor ANY and ALL of the following in minutes, WITHOUT knowing anything about SAP Solution Manager, CCMS or any vendor tools? Simple, IT-Conductor does all the work using cloud-based automation, so you don't have to, YES, we'll even manage the monitoring services so all you have to do is relax and use it!
Managing and Monitoring SAP HANA 2 Active:Active System Replication
Posted by Terry Kempis on Mar 14, 2017 1:15:49 PM
How To Select Your SAP Monitoring Tools
Posted by Linh Nguyen on Feb 3, 2017 10:30:00 AM
INTRODUCTION:
What may seem to be an obvious choice for SAP customers really isn't as obvious!
For more than 21 years in the SAP field and hundreds of SAP projects, from the mainframe R/2 days until now when some things are new again with SAP HANA and many other products, the question of "What SAP monitoring tools do you use?" is still greeted with an unclear and/or lengthy response. Often, the responses will follow with reasons why one tool is used for this and another tool is used for that by various different folks on the IT team. With the myriad of application environments to manage, one can understand the complexity and thus the non-obvious answer to the above question.
So, I thought it may be useful to provide an evaluation list of systems management areas based on my experience working with customers on monitoring, performance testing, and IT service management. It would provide:
- An objective way of assessing features and functionality, costs aside as it money complicates everything
- A central place to list the tools and what they are used for as well as their strengths & weaknesses
- A matrix to assign merit score and weight to each criteria that would help in tools and/or vendor selection
SAP HANA 2 Upgrade & Operations: Exploring Features of the New Cockpit
Posted by Terry Kempis on Jan 30, 2017 2:46:14 PM
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SAP HANA SPS12 Exploring New Features
Posted by Linh Nguyen on Nov 22, 2016 4:12:00 PM
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SAP HANA SPS12 Upgrade and Exploring New Features - Part 1
Posted by Linh Nguyen on Nov 16, 2016 10:05:00 PM
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SAP HANA System Replication - Setup, Operations and HANA Monitoring
Posted by Terry Kempis on Nov 9, 2016 9:31:46 PM
Practical Guide on HANA System Replication including Setup, Operations and Monitoring HANA SR/DR
SAP HANA Distributed System - Guide to Scale Out, HA and Monitor HANA
Posted by Terry Kempis on Oct 31, 2016 7:54:42 PM