SAP Data Archiving with OpenText

Customer Profile:

  • Founded in 1974.
  • #1 in India for Anti-infective segment.
  • Location: Mumbai.
  • Has 28 brands with sales of over $2 million.
  • Footprints in more than 35 countries.
  • 11 Brands are listed among top 300 brands in India.

Challenges & Opportunities:

  • Extensive business growth resulting in large database, reduced performance & elevated administration costs.
  • Manage long-term database expansion resulting from organic growth, new software releases.
  • Unified & Compliant Information management scenario to store archived information in a Safe and secure low cost storage environment.
  • Deployments with high availability, replication, and distribution to protect against the loss of valuable business information and provide efficient disaster recovery.

Solution Highlights:

  • Implemented OpenText archiving solution with integration to SAP.
  • Implemented SAP Data Archiving solution covering business and technical data.
  • Developed automation for periodic archive runs.
  • Put in place long term retention mechanisms.
  • Facilitated user access to both production and archived content in unified views.

Benefits:

  • Reduced hardware storage costs through data compression and the ability to leverage lower-cost media.
  • Minimized the need for additional hardware.
  • Provided greater system availability and reduced downtimes.
  • Significantly Improved SAP application performance.
  • Ensured that regulatory compliance requirements were met around data storage.