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SAP Landscape Maintenance
Monitoring, patching and system administration for SAP estates on-premise, on AWS and Azure, and across both.
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monitoring, patching and administration of your SAP landscape
One team administers every system in the estate, from sandbox to production, so patch cycles run on schedule, system refreshes are predictable, and capacity problems are caught before users notice them.
SAP Landscape Management
What is an SAP landscape?
An SAP landscape is every system that keeps the business running: development, quality and production for the ERP, plus the satellites around them such as BW, PI/PO or CPI, Solution Manager, Fiori front-end servers and the databases underneath. Each has its own patch level, transport path and dependencies. Landscape maintenance keeps that set consistent, current and documented, so a change in one place does not surprise another.
What this covers:
- System inventory and dependency map
- Transport route and client strategy review
- Patch-level and support-pack baseline
- Documentation of every system and interface
What is SAP Landscape Management?
SAP Landscape Management is the central administration of all those systems: monitoring, patching, refreshes, start and stop schedules and capacity. Done centrally, the work is repeatable and auditable. Done ad hoc, every system drifts. ETZ Global takes over this administration or works alongside your Basis team, on-premise, on AWS and Azure, or across both.
What this covers:
- 24/7 monitoring and alerting
- Scheduled kernel, support-pack and OS patching
- System copies and refreshes
- Capacity, performance and cost reviews
How the maintenance process runs
The process is a calendar, not a fire drill. Maintenance windows are agreed per system tier, patches are tested in sandbox and quality before they reach production, and every change goes through your change control with a rollback plan. Monthly reporting shows what was changed, when, and what it cost.
What this covers:
- Agreed maintenance calendar per system tier
- Sandbox and quality testing before production
- Change control with rollback plans
- Monthly change and cost reporting
Planning and implementing landscape changes
Bigger changes, such as a new system, an upgrade, a move to a hyperscaler or a consolidation, start with a written plan: what changes, in what order, what it depends on, and what it costs. ETZ Global writes that plan with your team, sizes the infrastructure, and runs the implementation in SAP Activate phases, so business users see one planned cutover rather than a series of surprises.
What this covers:
- Landscape roadmap and target architecture
- Infrastructure sizing and cost estimate
- Cutover planning and rehearsal
- Post-change hypercare
Tools & Delivery
SAP Activate methodology
SAP Activate is SAP's own delivery framework: discover, prepare, explore, realise, deploy, run. It fixes the order of work, the deliverables of each phase and the quality gates between them. ETZ Global runs upgrades, conversions and new implementations in these phases, so your project board always knows which gate has been passed and what the next one requires.
What this covers:
- Phase plan with defined deliverables
- Fit-to-standard workshops
- Quality gates before each phase
- Go-live readiness check
Landscape management tools
SAP Solution Manager remains the standard for monitoring, change control and system documentation in most landscapes. SAP Landscape Management adds automated system copies and start/stop orchestration, and AWS and Azure bring their own monitoring and automation. ETZ Global has run all three. We recommend the set that fits your estate and your team, then configure it, rather than selling a toolset.
What this covers:
- SAP Solution Manager setup and operation
- SAP Landscape Management automation
- AWS and Azure native monitoring
- Tool selection based on your estate and team
New implementation and SAP conversion
A new S/4HANA system and a conversion of an existing ECC system are both projects that start with the current landscape. ETZ Global inventories what runs today, including custom code and interfaces, chooses the approach with you (new implementation, system conversion or selective data transition), and delivers it with the same team that will maintain the result afterwards.
What this covers:
- Current-state inventory including custom code and interfaces
- Approach comparison: new implementation, conversion or selective transition
- Build, test cycles and cutover
- Same team from project into support
SAP system upgrade
An SAP upgrade touches the kernel, the database, the application and often the custom code on top. Before changing anything, ETZ Global runs the SAP readiness and simplification checks, tests the custom code against the target release, and sizes the downtime. The upgrade itself is rehearsed on a system copy before it is run on production.
What this covers:
- Readiness and simplification item checks
- Custom code analysis against the target release
- Downtime sizing and rehearsal on a system copy
- Production upgrade and hypercare
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FAQ Questions
Landscape maintenance FAQ
Common questions about what maintenance includes, cost efficiency, stability during updates, tooling, and sustainability.
Start a ConversationWhat exactly does landscape maintenance include?
Landscape maintenance covers central administration of your multiple SAP systems on-premise, cloud, or hybrid. ETZ Global uses SAP Landscape Management tools to schedule system refreshes, perform automated patching and version updates, enforce security compliance, and ensure systems stay optimized and cost-efficient.
Can my SAP landscape run more efficiently while reducing costs?
Yes. Through centralized automation and intelligent scheduling, ETZ Global helps you reduce resource waste, such as shutting down non-production systems after hours, achieving genuine cost savings and improved performance.
How do you protect system stability while applying updates?
ETZ Global combines structured SAP Activate project phases (plan, test, deploy) with landscape management tools for staged deployment, testing in sandbox, running regression tests, and maintaining high availability during the update process.
Will you help me choose the right tools for landscape oversight?
Yes. Whether you prefer SAP Solution Manager, SAP Landscape Management, or hyperscaler-native tools, ETZ Global advises and configures the right choice based on your landscape complexity, team skills, and compliance requirements.
Is sustainability considered in landscape maintenance?
Yes. By right-sizing systems, shutting down idle servers, and utilizing hyperscaler energy efficiencies, ETZ Global aligns landscape maintenance with corporate ESG goals, helping to reduce carbon footprint and energy consumption.
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