VIP

NetWeaver Infrastructure

With the implementation of SAP’s NetWeaver™ Framework, today’s SAP environment is far more complex than just a few years ago.  VIP’s NetWeaver™ Infrastructure Administration practice focuses purely on the administration of the SAP Application Suite. Our core focus is on application lifecycle management, ensuring that SAP applications are performing to standards and system architecture is implemented to SAP best practices.

VIP's NetWeaver™ Infrastructure Administration practice leaders are experts in helping to assess, implement, and upgrade your NetWeaver™ application suite. The practice is based on current technology trends, SAP’s strategic direction and direct client feedback. We are strategically aligned to SAP’s technology suite and deliver solutions to meet our client’s specific requirements.

Our offerings include:

• SAP NetWeaver™ Architectural Services
• SAP NetWeaver™ 7.0 Upgrade Services
• On Demand Basis Consulting
• SAP NetWeaver™ Security
• SAP NetWeaver™ Infrastructure Administration
• SAP Solution Manager Consulting

SAP NetWeaver™ Architectural Services

VIP's NetWeaver™ Architectural Services offers both onsite and remote SAP application and infrastructure assessments. We also offer roadmap strategies to assist customer efforts when adopting SAP’s NetWeaver™ product suite. We take a holistic approach to the SAP environment, looking at both present and future states, to lay out a roadmap that offers maximum flexibility and serviceability in the following areas:

• Software lifecycle maintenance
  • Upgrade assessments
  • Infrastructure analysis
  • Strategic roadmap development
• Adoption of SAP’s Java WAS
  • System landscape directory
  • NetWeaver™ Administrator

SAP NetWeaver™ 7.0 Upgrade Services

VIP's NetWeaver™ 7.0 Upgrade Services focus on the technical aspects of upgrading specific SAP applications to the NetWeaver™ 7.0 foundational software. We have upgrade accelerators by application, which focus on the upgrade activity itself as well as preparation and post upgrade activity. Based on our experience, we have built a platform-specific list from our ‘lessons learned’ that allows us to perform preventative actions to eliminate known upgrade interruptions that can save you time with the following:

• Upgrade accelerators
  • Tailored to customer’s platform
• Upgrade landscape strategies
• Combined upgrade & Unicode conversions
• Participation based on customer need
  • From staff augmentation to turnkey solutions

On Demand NetWeaver™ Basis Consulting

VIPs On Demand NetWeaver™ Basis Consulting offers expert SWAT solutions that solve the most complex problems that impact customer’s projects. For those really tough questions, a dedicated or ad hoc administrator offers a quick turn-around in the following areas:

• Complex problem resolution
  • Java support
• Project services - troubleshooting
  • Realization support: roadmaps - “how-to’s”
• Performance assessments and tuning
  • ABAP and Java

NetWeaver™ Security

VIP’s NetWeaver™ Security is built to provide comprehensive security solutions to your NetWeaver™ environments. In addition to the intricacies of the traditional ECC- ABAP stack, our experts can provide in-depth expertise into the specific areas of focus in each of the SAP applications, including Business Intelligence, Portal, CRM, and SRM. We can also assist in planning and implementing your upgrade security strategy. Our goal is to provide you with a one-stop solution to all your security needs including:

• Architecture
  • From strategic planning to solutions
• Traditional ABAP security
  • Role-based NetWeaver™ security
  • Profile Generator
• BI security
• Upgrade planning and execution
• Identity management

SAP NetWeaver™ Infrastructure Administration

VIP’s Infrastructure Administration resources are continuously updating their administration skills to better direct the infrastructure required to run NetWeaver™ 7.0 applications. These include how to optimally perform Unicode migrations, administrating the Java constructs – SLD, NWA, NWDI as well as managing code in the new integrated NetWeaver™ 7.0 environment with tools like CTS Plus.

Solution Manager Consulting

VIP’s Solution Manager Consulting covers a range of services from fresh installations with the base framework configuration to full scenario implementations. The framework configuration involves installation and IMG configuration, connection of your SAP systems to Solution Manager, and connecting Solution Manager to SAP’s OSS Support. Scenario configurations range from custom monitoring to change management including:

• Base framework installation
  • Unicode installation completed to SAP standards
  • Solution Manager Basis IMG completed
  • Base SLD implemented
• Additional scenario-specific work can be done as requested