Unlock SAP Performance and Efficiency with SAP Data Archiving

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, SAP customers face the challenge of managing increasing data volumes while maintaining optimal system performance and controlling costs. To address these critical needs, GlueData offers cutting-edge data archiving implementations specifically designed for SAP users across diverse industries. We will explore the benefits and challenges associated with data archiving and provide insight on how GlueData’s archiving expertise can empower your organisation to unlock performance, efficiency, and cost savings.

Understanding the Need for Data Archiving

In the era of digital transformation, businesses generate vast amounts of data, leading to challenges such as limited storage space, decreased system performance, and rising costs.  Our focus is on Data which is rarely accessed or read-only (historical data) moved to ADK files. These files are enriched with retention time information and stored securely for long-term storage.

SAP customers often face obstacles due to the complex and data-intensive nature of their systems. GlueData recognises these pain points and offers SAP data archiving solutions to help organizations overcome some of these challenges.

Addressing Customer Pain Points

SAP customers encounter several challenges or misconceptions related to data archiving. These include:

  • Longer SAP system upgrade times due to large databases without archiving in place.
  • Performance issues caused by slow reporting performance resulting from high data volumes in critical application areas such as Profitability Analysis, Profit Center Accounting, Production Planning, Material Management, and Sales and Distribution.
  • Misconceptions about accessibility to archived data once it is deleted or moved, while standard archive-enabled transactions and reports provide seamless access to archived data.

Navigating Data Archiving Implementation

Implementing a data archiving project can be complex, and organizations need to overcome several challenges, including:

  • Bridging the understanding gap within the business regarding the concept of archiving and its benefits.
  • Realistically estimating the duration of an archiving project, considering excessive data volumes and open items not eligible for archiving.
  • Ensuring correct closing of preceding and subsequent SAP documents to facilitate efficient archiving.

To tackle these challenges, GlueData follows a meticulous approach and leverages the standard SAP Data Archiving Solution, the Archive Development Kit (AD).

GlueData’s Data Archiving Projects

GlueData sets itself apart from the competition through several unique aspects of its data archiving projects:

  • Detailed archiving assessment: GlueData conducts a thorough assessment to identify the most effective archiving objects, ensuring maximum impact on reducing data volume.
  • Comprehensive project workflow: The project encompasses archiving assessment, design, build, test, and deploy phases. The design phase is finalised only upon completion of testing.
  • Performance-driven approach: GlueData ensures that the tested archive-enabled transactions and reports meet the specific reporting needs of businesses before the deployment (go-live) phase.

The sooner you address your archiving requirements and manage closed business processes, the more data becomes eligible for archiving, resulting in better system performance and efficient reporting. Rest assured that archived data is accessible through standard archive-enabled transactions and reports, even after it has been moved or deleted from the database.

Data archiving is a critical component of SAP Data Volume Management, helping reduce and manage data growth in SAP systems. Find out more about GlueData’s Data Archiving solutions.