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Wednesday 29 June 2011

What is a Client in SAP?

This article answers the following queries:


  • What is a Client in SAP?
  • What is the difference between client specific and cross-client data?
  • What are the different client roles in SAP?

What is a client in SAP?

Client is self contained unit in commercial, organizational and technical terms.

It has its own user master data and set of table key ranges.

There are 2 types of data in SAP

  • Client specific data
  • Cross client data

What is the difference between client specific and cross-client data?


Client specific data means data such as user master and application data which belong to a specific client only.

Cross client data is not specific to any client. It is the data that belongs to all clients. It means data such as cross client customizing and all repository objects which affects the whole SAP system.





What are the different client roles?

Following are the different client roles :

C       Customizing

D       Demo

E        Education / Training

P        Production

S        SAP reference

T        Test






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6 comments:

chow said...

hi Durga..
can u plz explain the client roles in detail

Anonymous said...

Hi durga
can u plz tell me how many type of client are there in SAP

Anonymous said...

simple and easy language to understand... Thanks

Anonymous said...

thanks very useful info.

Unknown said...

hi durga,
if possible please post REMOTE CLIENT COPY prerequisites and steps in detailed screen shots.
Thanks in advance

Unknown said...

Hi durga,

Can u please post the remote client copy prerequisites and steps in detailed screenshots.
thanks in advance..............

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