SAP ILM for Compliant Archiving and Legacy Decommissioning
Customer Profile:
- Established in 1886
- $71 billion company
- Location: US, Bangalore
- Rated by Fortune magazine as the #1 company in the Pharmaceuticals category on its list of the World’s
Most Admired Companies. - 3 business units: Consumer Healthcare, Medical Devices & Diagnostics and Pharmaceuticals.
Challenges & Opportunities:
- Decommission Worldwide SAP and Non-SAP legacy systems.
- Reduce storage size for live SAP systems.
- Fulfilling legal compliance requirements for Decommissioned data.
- Leverage the value of information without keeping original system live.
- Balance between TCO, risk and legal compliance by managing, data volumes, retention requirements and destruction.
Solution Highlights:
- Implemented SAP ILM Retention Warehouse and OpenText Archiving and Document Access solutions.
- Decommissioned several large systems into the central SAP ILM Retention Warehouse.
- Implemented and automated SAP archiving from Live SAP System.
- Setup of all technical components required for legacy systems ILM retention warehouse Archive Server ILM Aware storage integration and communication.
Benefits:
- Long term secure storage and retrieval of data and documents across businesses.
- Reduce TCO – Multiple legacy systems to 1 Retention Ware system.
- Complete control over data and automated rules-based management of the retention and destruction of data.
- Meet complex global regulatory requirements.