SAP Support

Typical challenges faced by IT employees when dealing with the administration of a SAP solution are: the rapid growth of transactional data; and the consolidation of older SAP solutions, or host solutions, into the productive SAP system.

Derived from the proven IXOS solutions, OpenText helps SAP administrators with those challenges. Our solution for SAP data archiving offloads historic data from SAP solutions, stores it in a compliant archive, and offers simple access to archived data. This speeds up backup and recovery times, decreases hardware costs for productive data storage and addresses compliance.

SAP consolidation with OpenText archives legacy data and grants access in the SAP solution via a simple-to-use tool. This lowers migration costs and addresses compliant data storage. The OpenText solution for SAP document archiving integrates all business content into SAP – enabling organizations to jointly create, access, manage and securely archive all enterprise application content.

OpenText Solutions for SAP deliver this functionality with the following components:

Software:
Data Archiving for SAP Solutions, Archiving for SAP Solutions, Extensions for SAP Solutions

Supplemented by Business Content (e.g., predefined workflows) to give you a head-start in configuring workstreams and processes, Consulting Services, Training and Support tailored to meet your requirements.

Activities

OpenText Solutions for SAP include Data Archiving, SAP Consolidation and SAP Document Archiving.

SAP Data Archiving

Business processes generate data and increase the volume of an enterprise application’s database (e.g., SAP). This slows down access to information. Backup and recovery take longer and increase system downtime.

OpenText offers Data Archiving for SAP or Siebel. This solution offloads historic data from enterprise applications, stores it in a compliant archive and offers simple access to archived data. The solutions mean you will:

• Speed up system recovery
• Lower costs and risks associated with meeting data retention and disposal requirements
• Reduce administrative and hardware costs

Solution Adaptations: Data Archiving for SAP Solutions

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SAP Consolidation

The tasks of field mapping and importing data from SAP systems, R/2 or host systems can result in huge projects. As well, loading transactional data into a productive SAP system increases the amount of possibly volume-priced SAP objects (e.g., HR master data).

OpenText offers a solution for legacy data archiving (from Host, R/2 or SAP systems) which securely archives the bulk of data. Only the index information of this data is loaded into the productive SAP system. OpenText also offers a simple-to-use and intuitive module to access the archived business transactions. Adopting this strategy means that information and data is readily accessed via SAP systems, accelerating the decommissioning process and ensuring that regulatory requirements are met. Benefits include:

• R/2, SAP data or host data instantly accessible in target SAP system
• Supported via a graphical tool
• Compliant archiving of legacy data

Solution Adaptations: Extensions for SAP Solutions

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SAP Document Archiving

Implementing SAP solutions presents organizations with a vision of high process transparency, lower costs and excellent customer service. However, essential content is missing; document content (invoices, orders, employee files, etc.) is separately managed from SAP business processes.

The OpenText solution integrates all business content into SAP. This allows organizations to jointly create, access, manage and securely archive all enterprise application content. The solution means you:

• Improve operational efficiency and productivity
• Reduce IT consolidation and maintenance costs
• Enable compliance and reduce risks

Solution Adaptations: Archiving for SAP Solutions

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