PRODUCT OVERVIEW

OpenText Data Archiving for SAP Solutions

Manage the total cost of ownership of your SAP system with
data volume management

Reduce TCO of Every business transaction produces more data, expanding an

SAP® system SAP® database until it reaches its limit and putting additional
strain on IT resources to maintain the SAP platform. As the
Simplify migration database grows, backups and recoveries take longer, upgrades
to SAP S/4HANA® require more time and resources and user response times
and reduce SAP become prohibitive. Additionally, when users are unable to work
HANA® appliance effectively, orders are no longer processed promptly, invoices
footprint are delayed and customers have to wait for assistance.
Adding hardware only increases total cost of ownership (TCO). Migrating to SAP
HANA® as the underlying database may make performance no longer an issue, but
Future-proof memory usage can also drive the costs for the HANA appliance, and data volume
investment management is still a mandate.

in compliant, Organizations can keep a grip on their TCO by archiving data with standard
SAP data archiving and OpenText™ Data Archiving for SAP® Solutions. Archiving
long-term storage minimizes database growth and improves performance. Data is securely stored with
OpenText™ Archive Center and is available directly from the SAP user interface.

In addition to standard SAP data archiving, business content can be stored as

data extracts, reports and print lists. This content allows companies to generate
summary reports with data from different transactions and applications. It can also
be converted to formats that are viewable independent of the SAP system. The
content size can range from megabytes to gigabytes and be archived at intervals,
such as weekly, monthly or quarterly. The Archive Center and Imaging Viewer
components of Data Archiving for SAP Solutions optimize access, search and
retrieval of data extracts, reports and print lists.
 Adding OpenText™ Document Access for SAP® Solutions, users can display
the archived data alongside the online data from the SAP database. They can
" With increased back-up also combine online and offline data in user-friendly folder views in the right
business context, allowing proactive data archiving and ensuring continuous high
time, we are able to reduce
performance and lower TCO for the SAP system.
our primary database by
Reduce TCO of your SAP system
37 percent to 2.7TB. The
Save costs with more efficient resource use
automatic management of
SAP data archiving safely and easily removes application data from the database
information and archiving
that is no longer required in day-to-day business, storing the data in archive files that
of data provides real-time can easily be retrieved at a later date if necessary. Removing old data from the SAP
database frees up space, leading to more efficient use of resources, such as disk
information, which in turn,
storage or CPUs. It also reduces administration work, which decreases overall IT costs.
benefits our customers."
Increased system availability
Emmanuel Diloy
Head of Information Systems Less data means decreased system downtime, as the time required for software
Maynilad upgrades, data backups and recovery and database reorganization is also reduced.
Additionally, users get a faster system and can archive data in an online mode without
Read the Success story having to shut down the system.

Reduce TCO through seamless integration

"The OpenText solution
Fully integrated with SAP applications, Data Archiving for SAP Solutions is based
has met expectations on SAP NetWeaver ® technology and uses the SAP ArchiveLink® interface to
store archived data and print lists. It is certified by SAP for “Integration with SAP
and even exceeded them.
NetWeaver” with the SAP ArchiveLink and SAP NetWeaver Information Lifecycle
We can now provide the Management (ILM) interface certification.

service the business

Simplify migration to SAP S/4HANA and reduce SAP HANA
needs, saving time and appliance footprint
money by involving Whether migrating data from an underlying SAP Business Suite application to SAP
HANA or converting to SAP S/4HANA®, archiving data before migrating to SAP
fewer people with less
HANA reduces the database’s memory footprint, decreasing the hardware cost for
administrative overhead." the HANA appliance. The archived data is still accessible in SAP Suite on HANA and
S/4HANA. Using the OpenText storage platform with SAP data archiving for data
Magda Allan
volume management is the best practice for migration to HANA and to manage
SAP Business Solutions Manager
database growth and its effect on the hardware footprint in the S/4HANA system.
PG Group

Future-proof investment in compliant, long-term storage

Read the Success story
SAP data archiving standards guarantee that archived files are independent of
hardware and software release versions and can still be retrieved after an upgrade.
Standard SAP data archiving and SAP Information Lifecycle Management are still
used for data volume management and data lifecycle management, according to the
new SAP S/4HANA data aging concepts.

Data Archiving for SAP Solutions provides security for data files stored on Archive
Center, compliant with legal regulations for long-term archiving of business data.
This holds as well for data lifecycle management with SAP ILM, which is supported
by the solution and where Archive Center enforces the SAP ILM retentions.

Archive Center virtualizes storage and accessibility, increasing storage management

flexibility by allowing any combination of storage hardware. Compatibility with all
major storage providers ensures that companies can seamlessly transfer content to
alternate storage media in the future.

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 Organizations that use OpenText™ Archiving for SAP® Solutions and Document
Access for SAP Solutions can also use the same infrastructure for archiving
Learn more outgoing or incoming documents, office documents and emails and integrate data
and documents from legacy systems into the SAP system.
OpenText Archiving
for SAP Solutions » DB volume (in GB)

OpenText Data Archiving 700 = DB growth

for SAP Solutions » = DB growth estimated
= W/O archiving
Customer Success Stories » 21GB 11GB 8GB
450
14GB (-3)GB
350
(-6)GB

20GB Module 5
250 Reorganization module 4
9GB
Reorganization module 3
10GB
(-1)GB Reorganization module 2
90
Reorganization module 1
Time
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month month month year years years

Value scenarios for business and IT

Archiving of SAP data files from any SAP Business Suite

application or SAP S/4HANA
Archiving of SAP print lists
• View print lists
• Use Imaging Windows Viewer or Web Viewer
• Implement server-based search in print lists
• Support notes and annotations

Secure and compliant retention with Archive Center

• High-performance, highly-scalable archiving platform
• Overall support for all leading storage platform vendors
• High availability, hot and remote standby, disaster recovery
• Fast access to archived data

Support of SAP ILM for the Retention Management and Retention

Warehouse scenarios
• Store SAP ILM data files on a compliant storage platform with immutability feature
• Enforce retention and holds on SAP ILM data files
• Execute SAP ILM deletions of data files

Infrastructure can be used for business document archiving with Archiving for SAP
Solutions and Document Access for SAP Solutions.

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