ADVANTAGES OF SAP GUI

Advantages of SAP GUI

*Single GUI to access to all the SAP Application components like ERP, CRM, SCM, XI, BI and SRM.

*We can login with our logon language i.e. specify the language during logon. Same GUI is allowed to login with different languages.

*GUI is user friendly to create favorites, start up transactions to reduce the dialog steps

Dialog Step: It is mouse click, keyboard stroke (enter), function keys like f1(field help), f4(list of possible values), f7(display), f8(execute), f3(back to earlier screen). each dialog step consumes an average of 600ms.(It is an SAP Standard. Threshold value and 1000ms for ECC6.0 systems)

*GUI is downward compatible to support the all the SAP Application components which are below the current GUI Version.

Example:GUI7.0 may not support the components that are  build on 7.10/7.20/7.30 but SAP GUI 7.0 can handle 7.00,640,620,46D,45A etc.

i.e; higher Version GUI Supports lower version SAP Components GUI should be the latest version in the SAP landscape.

*User parameters are defined for the frequently keyed inputs. The values are populated automatically in that text box based on user logon which reduces the user inputs during run time.

Example: A user belonging to the sales organization, division, plant, sales area should get all the values by default while creating sales order(VA01) etc.

use SU01--> to specify the user parameters with parameter id and value.

user master maintenance

getting a parameter ID: On the screen text element (text box)--->press f1--->click on

technical information--get the parameter id.

similarly press f4 to get the parameter value.

Note: Parameters are user specific only...

*Users can be specified with a role based menu or with a SAP Easy access menu to reduce the GUI load.

*SAP GUI is intelligent to determine the least loaded server when more than one instance (application server) is configured. it gets the information from the message server. SAP uses logon group/server group concept to perform the load balancing.

*It provides access across the low speed connections and displays the screens with out graphics/logo which consume more network traffic. (low speed/ high speed) are used to suppress the GUI.

*It provides command window to navigate to the respective functionality and minimizes dialog steps. SAP is a transaction based/menu based system where transactions reduces the dialog steps and menu based increases the dialog steps but provides the complete functionality based on module.

*SAP provides ergonomically designed GUI to configure GUI font size, colors, logos, and visual design using SAP custom layout etc.

*SAP provides various shortcuts in command window

           .(/n) to navigate to a transaction from existing transaction window

           .(/o) to open a new transaction window

           .(/ex) to exit the screen

           .(/nex) to exit GUI

*GUI entries are controlled by using saplogon.ini/ sapmsg.ini/ saproute.ini/ sapdoccd.ini these files reside in windows directory where we can configure one GUI and copy these files to the other systems easily.

Go to windows directory to display the SAP GUI initialization parameters

*GUI provides default help options (f1 help,f4 help, system help and library help)

*The character set can be changed to suite various language and printers.

*SAP GUI supports digital certificates/single sign on so that user can login without any password (NTLM or Kerberos authentication)