What is SID?

See SID in Action

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SID is a Personal SAP Sandbox service.  This is what we mean:

Personal

• Environments, or Clients, are allocated to individuals on a one-to-one basis.
• Only you can make configuration and data changes to your Client. 
• Clients are stable and reliable.
• Configuration is normally limited to Client dependent only, developer keys are not available.

SAP

• The Client is an SAP ECC6.0 Client.
• Each Client licence is legally procured from SAP AG (follow this link to letter from SAP).
• ‘Evaluation’ or ‘IDES’ Clients are not used; these are illegal in this environment, are unregulated and require your system dates to be reset to prevent license expiration.
• The Client is based on the SAP Best Practices Baseline Package for the UK.
• Complete with pre-configured settings that give you everything you need to run integrated key processes with reduced configuration effort.
• More comprehensive and usable than an “IDES” Client.

Sandbox

• A Sandbox is a Client that has been built for development, configuration and testing.
• Clients can be accessed from your computer wherever, and whenever, you have access to the internet via an up-to-date SAP GUI or a web browser.
• Clients are hosted on a commercial platform that is highly resilient and highly available; comparable to that of an end-customer’s own internal SAP clients.

Service

• An annual fee gives you access to the service for one year.
• The service includes the provision of the SAP licence, hosting, resolution of technical failures and access to the Members Area.*
• Clients will be subject to a regular back-up regime to provide recovery from hosting hardware failure.  However there is no provision to restore individual Clients to a previous date – only to reset the Client to ‘as delivered’.

* SAP application support is not provided, except for unlocking users and resetting passwords.