legacy data complexity

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Maximizing SAP RISE Benefits with OpenText Solutions The transition to cloud adoption presents several challenges for organizations, particularly in managing and integrating legacy SAP applications which are costly to maintain, difficult to access, and pose compliance risks. To migrate these systems efficiently and compliantly, businesses need an innovative and well-planned strategy. This includes ensuring that only essential, current data is moved to the cloud, while figuring out how to handle residual applications and data that still need to be accessible for compliance and operational reasons. OpenText offers solutions to these challenges through its InfoArchive service, which supports both structured and unstructured data. This service helps maintain data integrity, ensures secure lifecycle management, and allows compliant access to data, facilitating a smoother transition to newer systems like SAP S/4HANA. The InfoArchive process involves steps such as extracting data, analyzing legacy structures, and creating storage applications, all aimed at efficient archiving and decommissioning of old applications while ensuring data privacy and compliance. This approach not only addresses compliance and operational efficiency but also aims to reduce the financial burden of maintaining legacy systems in a cloud environment.

By Suparna Chawla Bhasin

Apr 15, 2024

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4 minute read

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Protecting Sensitive Data Stored in Legacy Databases During Cloud Migration In today’s globalized economy, businesses are experiencing the rapid expansion of data while also trying to stay on top of the changes in data protection legislation. Especially in the process of digital transformation and migration to SAP S/4HANA, maintenance of legacy databases can become costly and complicate overall processes by increasing risks of exposure of […]

By Ekaterina Dudakova

Mar 26, 2024

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1 minute read

Live from SAPinsider 2023: Legacy Data Complexity a Barrier for Finance Teams Connecting with SAP customers attending finance track pre-conference sessions at the SAPinsider 2023 Conference in Las Vegas presents a unique opportunity for understanding what is top of mind for our SAPinsider finance community. In conversations with SAPinsiders on site, the most consistent answer is data — primarily the challenges of legacy data complexity as organizations evaluate plans SAP S/4HANA for pre- and post-implementation. Recent research across our SAPinsider finance community reveals that executive demand for reporting, planning, and insights from finance is a key driver for many organizations considering a move to SAP S/4HANA. Yet when talking with SAP users attending finance sessions, many expressed concerns about the complexity of legacy data and how it impacts their SAP S/4HANA transition roadmap.

By Ogo Nwanyanwu

Mar 22, 2023

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2 minute read