Course Glossary

Advanced Planning and Optimization

Customer Relationship Management. Supports all processes involving direct customer contact throughout the entire customer relationship life cycle - from market segmentation, sales lead generation and opportunities, to post-sales and customer service.

The organizational grouping of authorization objects.

Allows you to define complex authorizations. An authorization object contains up to 10 authorization fields that are checked in an AND relationship. This determines whether a user is permitted to perform a certain action. To pass an authorization check, the user must satisfy the check for each field contained in the object.

An element of an authorization object. In authorization objects, authorization fields represent values for individual system elements that must undergo authorization checking to verify a user's authorization.

References an authorization object. It defines one or more permissible values for each authorization field contained in the authorization object. Authorizations are combined in profiles, which are entered in a user's master record.

A group of multiple individual authorizations or other authorization profiles. Authorization profiles give users access to the system. They contain authorizations, which are identified using the name of an authorization object and the name of an authorization.

A menu that contains all functions required by a user, and which is assigned by the system administrator in the user master record using roles. It can be extended individually using favorites.

The buffer from which the data of a user master record is loaded when a user logs on.

Central User Administration — Management of users in a central system. A system group consists of several SAP systems with several clients. The same users are often created and the same roles assigned in each client. Central User Administration is designed to perform these tasks in a central system and distribute the data to the systems in the system group.

Remote Function Call

Application Link Enabling

Transport Management System

Internet Transaction Server

Universal Time Coordinated

Tool for generating authorization profiles in role maintenance. You use Role Maintenance to generate an authorization profile based on the activities in a role.

Implementation Guide. Tool for configuring the SAP system to meet customer requirements. The hierarchical structure of the IMG is based on the application component hierarchy. The main section is IMG activities, where the relevant system settings are made.

Computing Center Management System: Integrated tools for monitoring and administration of SAP systems and independent SAP business components, with which operations such as resource distribution and the administration of SAP databases can be automated.

The Audit Information System is a tool used by auditors to optimize a system and examine any weak points. The old menu-based version (AUDIT area menu) was replaced by a role-based environment after SAP Release 4.6C. The role concept used now includes the same collections, structuring, and defaults for standard SAP programs, but is easier to scale.