Summary

In Chapter 11, I covered SAP’s methodologies over the last few years, and how each successive methodology better addressed the tasks surrounding technical installation of SAP’s products. I then picked up where Chapter 10 left off in terms of completing planning and installation of the rest of the SAP Data Center’s SAP system landscape. This naturally led into a comprehensive discussion surrounding SAP’s installation documentation, tools, and approaches. I discussed how Smart Implementations and the SAP Configuration Assistant have proven useful in automatically adding new mySAP.com components into your SAP system landscape. I then began the long process of detailing the installation of mySAP’s technical foundation (recently renamed to NetWeaver), from Web Application Server to the SAP Exchange Infrastructure, Enterprise Portal, and even SAP’s old Internet-enabling workhorse, ITS. Specific mySAP.com component installation details or challenges, followed by attention to post-installation tasks and considerations, rounded out the chapter.

In concluding this chapter, we have finally accomplished the activities usually associated with the core SAP implementation, from sizing and blueprinting through installation. Part III takes us into SAP Functional Development and all of the associated tasks relevant to preparing for Go-Live. Thus, in the next few chapters, we’ll look at filling in the remaining holes in your SAP Technical Support Organization, addressing change management, implementing systems and operations management, and performing all of the testing necessary before Go-Live.