SAP course Intermediate Level by Winavit Technologies Pvt Ltd

SAP BASIS and Security Administration
1.0 Introduction

SAP has done nothing less than change the entire systems landscape for enterprises. The benefits it can bring have

led to widespread adoption across the globe. One of the key benefits SAP brings to an enterprise is the ability to

integrate the data both within the enterprise, and between it and its partners / competitors. In many cases

organizations today are both partners and competitors at the same time. Think of wholesalers and distributors, SAP

and Oracle, AT&T and BT, or two oil giants who have an upstream joint venture. These companies use SAP to

integrate process between themselves for their mutual benefit. This ability to integrate, however, brings with it a

particular risk that of exposing their data to the unauthorized outside world.

Entire companies have been built up around highly guarded intellectual property and process secrets ... and could

easily fall if this was breached. Therefore, keeping the security of the organization intact is one of the vital aspects of

any SAP implementation.

SAP BASIS addresses all security issues by incorporating an authorization module. With increased potential for

security breaches in the computer systems around the world, BASIS consultants face a tough task of maintaining the

integrity and administering the security of SAP systems. Interoperability features of a SAP system makes this task a

bit more difficult.