SAP Training: Beginners Guide - Learn SAP ABAP - SAP System Architecture
SAP Training - BEGINNERS GUIDE TO LEARNING SAP ABAP - Module 1 -- SAP System Overview
You can watch the first video in this ABAP Training series here: • SAP System Overview - Beginners Guide...
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So we're going to discuss the technical architecture of a typical SAP system. Then we're going to move on to the landscape architecture and just discuss why we break our landscape into multiple systems.
Here we have a slide showing a three-tier client server architecture of a typical SAP system. At the top we have the presentation server. The presentation server is any input device that we can use to control an SAP system. So here we are showing the SAP GUI. But we are not limited to just using the SAP GUI. We can use a web browser, mobile device or any other form of input you can think of.
The presentation layer communicates with the application server. An application server is the brains of an SAP system. This is where all the central processing gets done. You can see here what's showing the application server isn't just one system in itself. Your application server can be made up of multiple instances of the processing system. Now the application server in turn communicates with the database layer of the three-tier architecture. The database is kept on a separate server, a separate system in itself mainly for performance reasons but also for security as well. It provides a separation and that's why we have got these three different layers in this whole SAP system.... Continued at http://www.saptraininghq.com/sap-syst...
Videos in the series:
Learn SAP ABAP - Video Playlist - • SAP ABAP Tutorials
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