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Why do SAP Customers Archive ?
1. Continuous growth of SAP DB
Growing investments into hard disk, servers, racks,
backup devices...
Performance of SAP servers degrade
SAP system response time increases
2. SAP is the base of core business processes
Procurement, Sales, Finance, Customer Relationship
Management
Internal and external and legal requirements concerning
document retention
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Why Data Archiving?
*Customer Example
“We have archived 15 months ’
SAP documents so far
—approximately 3 million of them —
and have freed 55 gigabytes of hard
disk space,” says Bicak. “That ’s a
saving of over $70,000 on disk
upgrade costs alone, and we will
save much more as we continue to
archive.
–Fulya Bicak, Information Systems
Project Manager, DanoneSA
*Source: SAP 2002
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What are the Benefits of Archiving for SAP
Customers?
For the SAP system administration
Reduces growth of the SAP data bases : Smaller data bases
Faster Backups are possible
Faster data base recovery
Increased throughput of the SAP system
Reduces investments for additional hardware
Reduces efforts for maintenance and administration
For every SAP end user
Optimizing of business processes
Better response times to customer
Information is available instantly, even after years
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SAP application
Old, inactive database Archive
data Records Retrieve
CommonStore IBM Content
SAP R/3 Manager / TSM
SAP business documents
Incoming documents Non-SAP business
Print lists documents
Outgoing documents E-Mail @
Desktop documents Scanned images
Webflow integration Audio WAV, MP3
Video
Office documents
CAD Drawings
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SAP ArchiveLink
SAP's defined interface for
connecting archive systems to R/3
and mySAP
SAP R/3, mySAP
SAP standard
SAP ArchiveLink
Certified by SAP AG
mySAP Complementary Software
Program
Common interface for all SAP CM CommonStore
applications
Finance Archive
Logistics
etc.
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DB2 CommonStore for SAP
Certified archiving solution for all
SAP R/3,mySAP
current SAP releases
FI CO MM HR
AM PP
Any operational SAP DB (DB2, SD DVS
Oracle, Informix etc.) is supported ArchiveLink
Archiving of Business Documents
DB
SAP Document Finder
DB2 CommonStore
Archive
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SAP Specific Functionality ..Data Archiving
Data Archiving
Transparent processing of SAP archive files (ADK Files)
All SAP archiving objects are supported
Automated media management for archive files on hard disc,
tape or optical libraries
Highest performance and scalability with Tivoli Storage
Manager implementation
No modifications in the SAP System for CommonStore (just
customizing)
Display is done through the SAP GUI
Support for the SAP Archive Information System (SAP AS)
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SAP Data Archiving : The Process
1 ADK archiving
program
R/3
database
ADK deletion
program
SAP archive files
Data Archiving 3 2
1..Unloading the SAP DB
2..Storing the ADK Archive
DB2
Files in Archive CommonStore
3..Delete DB records from
SAP DB
Reorg data base Archive
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SAP specific functionality : Content Repository
Content Management und Document Management
DB2 CommonStore acts as a Content Repository for SAP
Supports all ArchiveLink processes, eg:
• Processing of incoming invoices
• Processing of delivery notes and other incoming
documents
• Archiving of outgoing documents, eg. Billing process
• Archiving of any workstation document
SAP Webflow (Business Workflow)
Full integration in SAP BWF and Webflow
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Summary
DB2 CommonStore for SAP and Content Manager and TSM
Offer a full Enterprise Content Management solution for SAP
Provide a scalable infrastructure based on industry strength
device manager with Tivoli Storage Manager
Integrate the SAP and non-SAP world
Manage SAP-based, structured and unstructured data within
one content management system
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