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EMC Documentum Archive Services for SAP High-Capacity, SAP-Certified Archiving for Reducing Costs and Risk ESSENTIALS Lower costs
SAP archiving: Reducing costs and achieving compliance For many companies, SAP business software is the source for much of the data that is
Archive non-current data to inexpensive tiered storage
needed for both operations and decision support. With today’s rapid growth in digital
Improve compliance
customers face a number of challenges. Large volumes of data are not only expensive
Manage retention of data archives easily and inexpensively
to store; they also impact system availability and reduce operating performance.
Increase performance
challenges, especially when data needs to be offloaded from heavily used databases or
Reduce the size of production databases without losing access to historical information
Archiving data and documents efficiently and cost-effectively is therefore critical in an
HANA ready Lower the TCO and implementation effort of SAP HANA
information, along with increasing IT infrastructure costs and regulatory demands, SAP
Moreover, tracking all that data can create compliance and information governance preserved from decommissioned applications. environment of rising IT costs and increased regulation and litigation. Archiving plays a key role in loss prevention and business continuity. For firms using SAP solutions, it is essential that their archiving and storage capabilities work seamlessly with those applications. Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) is an IT discipline for managing the lifecycle of business information from creation through destruction. ILM streamlines infrastructure by automating the placement, storage, retention, and function of live and legacy system information, while ensuring that this information is available to support compliance requirements, business analytics, and legal discovery. With SAP Information Lifecycle Management, a software component for SAP systems, enterprises can archive and set information retention rules from their SAP environment, enabling the retention of different business records for different periods of time according to policy or legal requirements. Documentum Archive Services for SAP provides a key component of an SAP ILM solution, with certified support for SAP Information Lifecycle Management 3.0. Documentum Archive Services for SAP stores information in Documentum Content Server to offload it from SAP production systems. Archive Services for SAP also extends and enforces the retention policies created in SAP ILM to this archived content. Additionally, Documentum will store and migrate these archives to multiple storage tiers based on aging, importance, and service level criteria, all transparent to the SAP business user. The result is an optimal and efficient SAP archive where information is preserved as required by business use, regulation, or policy. In the event of an audit, investigation, or litigation and subsequent e-discovery requests, Archive Services for SAP can suspend disposition and place content in a state of legal hold through the duration of the matter.
DATA SHEET
EMC Documentum Archive Services for SAP: A gateway to unified information management and retention Since 1996, EMC Documentum Archive Services for SAP has been a secure SAP archiving platform, now serving hundreds of SAP customers worldwide. By integrating with the market leading content management capabilities of the Documentum Platform and Documentum Retention Policy Services, SAP archives are unified and their retention is managed with other information, including e-mail messages and attachments, reports from other applications, scanned images, process data, and other business content. In addition to certification with SAP ILM 3.0, Documentum Archive Services for SAP is also certified with SAP ArchiveLink. Organizations that are not yet ready to implement SAP ILM can quickly and easily take advantage of retention managed archiving through the Documentum/ArchiveLink integration and Documentum’s own Retention Policy Services. When ready to adopt ILM, their archived content can be seamlessly migrated. Other key features of Documentum Archive Services for SAP include the following:
SAP-defined retention can be applied to all archived business content
SAP-defined retention can be augmented with additional services, such as storage policies, approval workflows, advanced disposition states, and others
Newer SAP archives can be unified with older ArchiveLink-based archives
Handles archived objects of all volumes and sizes, including data archive (ADK Archive Development Kit) files, DaRT extracts, printlists, and business documents generated by SAP applications
Maps SAP metadata to Documentum properties for each archived object
Brokers archiving requests from multiple, concurrent SAP systems, scaling for high-capacity installations
Users across the enterprise have access to SAP archives, particularly reports and documents
Tight integration with tiered and cloud storage platforms, including industryleading storage products from EMC
With this set of features, Documentum Archive Services for SAP delivers the following benefits:
Lower operating costs: Documentum Archive Services for SAP can be extended to reduce storage costs by leveraging the Documentum Platform’s integration with tiered storage platforms from EMC and others. Documentum’s extensible metadata and rich content services enable optimal integration with various storage technologies and are complementary to disk-level/HSM products
Improved regulatory compliance: Documentum provides IT departments the benefit of a single integrated platform for managing compliance with retention policies. This comprehensive compliance platform is easier to maintain and administer than a multiple-point solution, and ultimately will reduce compliance infrastructure effort and costs
Increased System Performance: A comprehensive SAP data and document archiving strategy will help speed system response times. When non-current transactions are archived, searches and update/insert operations are faster
HANA ready infrastructure: Smaller data sets also make for easier, faster, and more efficient SAP HANA in-memory database deployment, lowering the cost of SAP HANA implementation
Extending the information archive: EMC Documentum Platform Archiving and retention management features reside alongside the powerful information and process management capabilities of the Documentum Platform, allowing archiving can be extended into other technology and business solutions, all with significant business benefits. These capabilities include:
Integrated Compliance, Capture, Content, Customer Communications and Business Process Management: Documentum is the only integrated ECM platform to cover the full lifecycle of Content Management from information capture through to customer communications and eDiscovery. Retention policies can even be applied to content stored in other enterprise repositories with federated retention management
Built-in support for all types of information: Structured transactional data, semi- structured (XML), and unstructured content including all rich media file formats, as well as blogs, wikis and other social content, with common controls for governance, records management, compliance, security, and auditing
Standards-based, interoperable architecture: Based on SOA and industry standards, Documentum provides integration with a broad set of applications leveraging both open standards and custom integrations. We also have the broadest support of all major database, OS and application server vendors
Flexible infrastructure: Documentum provides the industry's first VMware vFabric-enabled VCUBE cloud architecture for private, public and hybrid cloud environments for highly architected enterprise applications. In addition, Documentum offers choice computing options with a broad range of content delivery models
Configuration and Composition vs. Custom Code: Advanced configuration and application composition tools enable rapid building and deployment of informationdriven business applications without custom code, reducing cost of ownership and enabling agile response to change
In addition to Archive Services for SAP, Documentum also provides additional integration points for SAP applications:
Documentum Content Services for SAP: Integrates content managed in Documentum with SAP business objects and processes. SAP users can access business content directly from their desktops, eliminating the time and costs associated with searching for, filing, and storing documents
Documentum Process Services for SAP: Provides BAPI-compatible Web Services interfaces for Documentum and enables SAP integration with Documentum xCP business process management
These integrations enable a broad set content management and archiving applications for extending SAP, such as:
All industries: Non-SAP viewing of archived SAP reports and business documents; employee resource management; streamlining accounts payables and receivables; contracts management
Financial Services: Insurance claims management, loan origination, and new account enrollment
Manufacturing and Utilities: Plant and facilities management, product lifecycle management, and capital project management
Managing the lifecycle of SAP information With Documentum Archive Services for SAP and the powerful content management and compliance capabilities of the Documentum Platform, EMC offers a unique solution for reducing costs and risk of managing large volumes of SAP data. This solution, combined with world-class EMC product support and certified SAP consulting services, makes EMC the ideal partner for accelerating SAP information lifecycle management.
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