What is the difference between Basic access and Designated Support Contact (DSC) access? What can I do as a Basic user? What can I do as a DSC?

Basic access includes the below abilities:

• Access to the Learning Center for product documentation and knowledge base
  
  • Access to the Integration Toolkit under Product and Resources for data transfer between your company’s applicable solutions and ERP system
• Search for support notes and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) applicable to solutions used by your company
• Subscribe to Announcements for Critical Incidents, News, Maintenance releases, security, and downtime sent by SAP Ariba
• Submit or vote on a new implementation suggestion to SAP Ariba's Product Managers through the Customer Influence tool
• Seek and share expert knowledge of best practices, code samples, and common issues with other users seeking the same in the communal Discussion Forums tool
• Access Reports for an overview of activity, performance and other metrics
• Find available Contacts and Entitlements for your company under the Administration menu
• Ability to view Case description in the list page of My Case and My Company SR’s under Manage Cases
• Ability to view the list page, IMS object page and subscribe to Critical Incidents
• Ability to view the list page related to Solution Change Requests (SCR)

DSCs act as your company's go-to experts on SAP Ariba products, supporting end users with questions, and initiating Cases to engage our Technical Support teams. DSC access includes all Basic access abilities, and the following:

• Create and manage Cases submitted by other DSCs from your company registered to Connect
• Manage environments for on-premise solutions
• Download software for on-premise solutions

If you are a Basic user seeking DSC access, please contact your company's Cloud Administrator, using below steps:

1. Log on to SAP ONE Support Launchpad and click Support User Management.
2. Click the User tab to access a list of all users from your organization.
3. In the Function column, look for Super Administrator (Cloud).
4. Contact one of these users to create your account.

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