SAP Archiving Solution
Save time and money with Zia Cloud Offering, SAP Archive Project and SAP Document MigrationSAP transactional and content data grows rapidly and has a negative impact on performance in SAP environments and increases the cost. SAP archiving moves data from the live SAP system to a separate storage system for long-term retention. This optimizes system performance, reduces storage costs, ensures compliance, and preserves valuable historical data. It allows for efficient data management, streamlined system maintenance, and improved overall SAP system performance.
With the sunset of SAP ECC6.0 and the upgrade to S/4HANA in 2027, customers need to find a way to streamline how they transition to the new environment without incurring the steep costs associated with replatforming on S/4HANA. This is why it is imperative to find an alternative to expensive legacy methods that charge by the amount of storage used, and increase the cost of support and maintenance over time.
Rocket Software and Zia Consulting
Rocket Software and Zia Consulting offer an SAP Archiving solution that maximizes performance and reduces cost. We provide a modern and cost-effective external storage and archiving technology that automatically stores documents and transactional data based on your organization’s governance and archival policies. Documents can still be accessed in the standard attachment menus within SAP, with the SAP Archive web-interface, or through other bespoke mobile and portal experiences that leverage our REST API.
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Watch this webinar to learn more about SAP Archiving, content migration from SAP to the Archive, deploying to the cloud, and leveraging managed services.
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“Optimizing Your SAP Archiving Strategy”
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How it Works
Archiving Objects
SAP archiving focuses on specific data objects such as documents, transactions, reports, or master data. Each archiving object has its own set of rules and criteria for archiving.
Archiving Criteria
Specific criteria such as age, document type, and transaction status determine which data is eligible for archiving.
Data Extraction
Eligible data is extracted from the live SAP system and exported in a standardized format, such as XML or ASCII. This ensures compatibility with the archiving storage system.
Storage System
Extracted data is stored in a separate storage system that is optimized for long-term data retention and may provide features like compression, encryption, and efficient indexing. This can be an external server, a database, or a dedicated archiving solution.
Access and Retrieval
Data in the separate storage system is still accessible within the SAP system. Archiving allows users to retrieve and view archived data when needed. Various search and retrieval methods are available, including direct access from SAP transactions or through specialized archiving tools.
Data Lifecycle Management
SAP archiving supports the management of data throughout its lifecycle. It allows organizations to define retention periods for different types of data, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. After the retention period expires, data can be deleted from the archive to free up storage space.
Data Integrity and Security
SAP archiving focuses on specific data objects such as documents, transactions, reports, or master data. Each archiving object has its own set of rules and criteria for archiving.
Administration and Monitoring
SAP provides tools and utilities for administering and monitoring the archiving process. System administrators can configure archiving objects, monitor archiving jobs, analyze archiving performance, and troubleshoot any issues that may arise.
Problems We Solve with SAP Archiving
1. Increased storage costs
Avoid expensive hardware and infrastructure costs associated with live SAP databases. Save on operational costs by reducing the number of users or data volume, and the time needed to backup and restore data.
2. Unreliable response times
Reduce the size of the live database and improve system performance by moving less frequently accessed data to a separate storage system.
3. Inefficient processes
Enhance user productivity with faster and more efficient transactions, queries, and reporting processes.
4. Unsecure Storage Environments
Provide a secure environment that protects and maintains the integrity and authenticity of historical and sensitive customer data. Protect data from accidental or unauthorized modification during storage and transmission.
5. Difficulty Meeting Compliance and Legal Requirements
Store data for the required duration and ensure adherence to industry regulations and legal obligations.
6. Inaccessible Data
Ensure seamless data access for reporting, analysis, historical reference, performance evaluation, auditing, and legal purposes.
7. Unusable Data
Retrieve and view archived data to promote business continuity and enable informed decision-making with historical data.
8. Time Consuming Upgrades
Decrease the time required for system backups, data migrations, and upgrades by reducing the amount of data in the live system.
9. Costly Maintenance Processes
Minimize the impact on business operations, reduce downtime, and facilitate smoother system maintenance processes.
10. Long-Term Data Preservation
Preserve historical SAP data so that valuable business information is retained and available for analysis, reference, or compliance purposes, even as the SAP system evolves or data volumes grow.
Stats
Our approach includes the deployment of our SAP Document Migration utility. This streamlines the migration of documents to the SAP Archive environment to recognize immediate value.
90 days
Zia follows a rapid implementation model to allow your organization to gain value from your investment in 90 days.
6 months
Customers typically recognize a return on investment in as little as six months.
40%
Organizations can achieve data reductions of 40% or more with SAP Archiving.
Managed Services Offerings
Managed services allows you to rapidly recognize the value of the application, remain agile, and redeploy value resources to other critical business functions.
We have three options to accommodate your specific requirements related to managed services:
On-premise
In your existing cloud
In the Zia Cloud
What Gets Archived
Depends on the specific archiving strategy, type of data being archived, and organization’s data retention policies.
Often includes infrequently accessed information such as completed transactions, outdated master data, audit logs, log files, and other data that is not critical for day-to-day operations.
Live document content, with access to the documents through the standard menu options.
Contact Us Today
Reach out to us for a thorough analysis and assessment of your SAP system, data usage patterns, and data retention requirements. From there, we can determine the specific percentage of data that can be removed through archiving.