Summary

This hour provided you with a very elementary overview of some of the essentials of the SAP technology foundation known as SAP Web Application Server (SAP WebAS) or SAP Basis. These functions that go on behind the scenes in your SAP system are germane to hosting the workload driven by users and batch processes alike. This hour is a very basic overview; there are many additional functions and components of the Basis system that are not covered here. Some of these additional concepts are covered in Hour 15, “System Administration.” Unless you are planning a career in an SAP technical discipline such as WebAS installation, performance optimization, or system administration, the technical terms and functions that are discussed herein should ...

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