Jan 30, 2024
•6 minute read
SAP Data Archiving
SAP Data Archiving: Moving Inactive Data to Reduce Storage Costs and Improve Performance
As SAP customers face growing data volumes and rising storage costs, SAP Data Archiving has emerged as a strategic solution for identifying inactive data, removing it from production systems and storing it cost-effectively for long-term retention. Organizations increasingly view data archiving not just as a compliance or cost-reduction measure but as a competitive advantage that improves system performance and unlocks business intelligence insights from historical data. SAPinsider coverage of SAP data management for S/4HANA migrations shows that prioritizing data archiving before migration aids in improving system performance, reducing costs and ensuring smoother S/4HANA transitions.
What Is SAP Data Archiving?
SAP Data Archiving is the process of identifying data that is no longer active or infrequently used and moving it out of production systems into separate storage for long-term retention. The SAP solution, formerly called SAP Cloud Platform Data Archiving, runs on SAP Business Technology Platform and offers blocking and archiving capabilities for business data to reduce total cost of ownership.
What Use Cases Are Referenced?
S/4HANA Migration Prepared Through Data Archiving
Organizations preparing for S/4HANA migration use data archiving to reduce active data volumes, improve system performance during migration, minimize conversion times and lower post-migration storage costs.
Compliance and Governance Requirements Met with Archived Data
Companies use SAP Data Archiving to meet regulatory compliance and information governance requirements by retaining legally required data in auditable, long-term storage while removing it from active production systems.
Storage Cost Reduction Through Tiered Archiving Strategies
Enterprises implement tiered archiving strategies that move older data from expensive high-performance storage to lower-cost archival storage, significantly reducing total cost of ownership for SAP system infrastructure.
Business Intelligence Gained from Archived Historical Data
Organizations analyze archived historical data to gain competitive insights into long-term business trends and customer behavior patterns that are no longer visible in active production systems.
System Performance Improved by Archiving Inactive Data
By removing inactive data from production databases, SAP Data Archiving reduces database size and improves query response times, accelerates backup and recovery processes and enhances overall system performance.
What SAPinsider Research Supports This Topic?
SAPinsider Data Management for S/4HANA Migration
SAPinsider coverage of data management for SAP S/4HANA migrations examines how prioritizing data archiving before migration improves transitions by improving system performance, reducing costs and ensuring smoother S/4HANA transitions.
SAPinsider Business Continuity Through Cloud-Based Archiving
SAPinsider research highlights best practices for data archiving strategies that maintain business continuity while moving archival solutions from on-premise to cloud environments.
SAPinsider SAP Business Data Cloud Modernization
SAPinsider analysis of SAP Business Data Cloud modernization details how organizations optimize costs and simplify data governance by implementing comprehensive data management strategies that include archiving inactive data.
SAPinsider SAP Data Management Strategy Coverage
SAPinsider reporting on enterprise data management strategies highlights how data archiving serves as a foundational component of comprehensive SAP data management approaches that balance cost, compliance and performance requirements.
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