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Volume 9 (2007)
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Issue 2 (March/April)
Use SAP Solution Manager’s extensive reporting capabilities to ensure consistent performance
across your system
landscape through proactive monitoring 
by Henrik Zimmermann, Senior Product Manager, SAP AG
Veit Eska, Senior Developer, SAP AG
Michael Mayer, Senior Support Consultant, SAP AG
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Henrik
Zimmermann studied geography
at the University of Heidelberg and the Freie Universität
Berlin, Germany, where he concentrated on collaborative
development and digital image processing. From 1998
to 2000, he was responsible for setting up the Geomarketing
area at Cartogis. From May 2000 to December 2001,
he worked at SAP as a Supply Chain Management developer
in the master data area. Since January 2002, Henrik
has been a product manager for SAP Solution Manager
focusing on monitoring, reporting, service delivery,
multitenancy, integration of partner products for
testing, ramp-up knowledge transfer, and training
curriculum. You may reach him at henrik.zimmermann@sap.com.
Veit Eska studied physics at the
University of Rostock and the Institute of Atmospheric
Physics in Kühlungsborn, Germany, from 1989
to 1994. He then worked for six months as an assistant
at the institute and, three years later, wrote a
doctoral thesis on applied physics. He joined SAP
in 1998, where he worked in the Technical Core Competence
Team on the development of service tools for creating
services such as SAP EarlyWatch Alert. With regard
to SAP Solution Manager, he is responsible for service
development and the service session workbench. Veit
also manages development projects for monitoring,
reporting, and business intelligence. You may reach
him at veit.eska@sap.com.
Michael Mayer studied mechanical
engineering at the University of Clausthal, Germany,
and the Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain, focusing
on informatics and numeric control of machinery and
equipment. In 1997, he joined SAP and has worked
in the areas of SAP Basis technology, system monitoring,
and performance tuning. Since 2004, he has contributed
to the development of Service Level Reporting and
is involved in the design of SAPs standard services,
such as SAP EarlyWatch and SAP GoingLive. You may
reach him at m.mayer@sap.com.
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The growth of SAP Solution Manager as a tool to
maintain, support, configure, and upgrade SAP landscapes
brings with it the need for increased reporting capabilities,
so you can be proactive in addressing issues before
they become critical. SAP Solution Manager 4.0 includes
a wide range of reporting options for generating
technical and administrative information about your
system landscape, including SAP EarlyWatch Alert
Reporting, Service Reporting, EarlyWatch Alert Reporting
in SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence, Service Level
Reporting, and System Availability Reporting. This
article provides an overview of these new options
and explains how you can use them to ensure consistent
performance across your system landscape.
Categories:
BI/BW,
Portals,
Reporting,
SAP Solution Manager,
System Administration
BW
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