SAP® Data Archiving

“Data Archiving is an essential component for ensuring efficient data management in mySAP.com”

- Archiving your SAP Data by SAP Press

Why Archive?

TO REDUCE COSTS – Ascend can reduce data volumes and associated storage and support costs by up to 50%.
To stem the explosive growth in SAP® data - in production and in non-production environments - and avoid or delay disk upgrades.
To maintain system throughput and end user performance and avoid or delay server upgrades.
To ensure database maintenance and backup procedures can be completed in available time windows.
To reduce Basis support effort.
To enforce regulatory compliance around data retention.

Ascend has tools and a methodology to rapidly analyse a client’s SAP production data and to produce a tailored SAP Archiving Strategy. The strategy pinpoints which archiving objects will provide the greatest savings, estimates the total savings to be achieved and provides a step by step process to implement and test the SAP Data Archiving Solution, extract the data and keep the solution maintained.
The Strategy is independent of any SAP Data Archiving tools or solutions which currently may be deployed.
Ascend produces the SAP Archiving Strategy for a single SAP system in 5 days for a fixed price. Call us for further details.

Ascend will compile a detailed proposal to implement the SAP Archiving Strategy.
Ascend will supply and install the necessary products, configure, implement, test and document the solution, and train the users.
Ascend’s implementation timeframe is AS LITTLE AS 5 WEEKS to live operation of the core SAP Data Archiving solution.
The client can start removing the data, or Ascend can assist with this process.
Ascend produces detailed maintenance documentation for each client as part of the implementation process.
Ascend performs a post-implementation review.

Ascend offers a Best-of-Breed solution based on leading technologies from Symantec and Gamma Enterprise Technologies, underpinned by comprehensive strategy and implementation processes developed by Ascend for this purpose.
Ascend’s solution is SAP-Certified and exploits the full capabilities of ArchiveLink.
Focused, efficient processes for Strategy development and solution implementation minimize costs and the time to benefit.
Ascend’s consultants have successfully implemented over 20 SAP Data Archiving projects in large national and global SAP sites.

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