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.