IBM Archiving Solutions for SAP

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1 IBM Software Group IBM

2 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

3 Why Data Archiving? *Customer Example We have archived 15 months worth of SAP documents thus 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

4 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 inquiries Important documentation is linked to SAP business objects Reduced efforts for document manipulation Information is available instantly, even after years

5 SAP application data Old, inactive database Archive Records Retrieve SAP R/3 CommonStore IBM Content Manager / TSM SAP business documents Incoming documents Print lists Outgoing documents Desktop documents Webflow integration Non-SAP business documents Scanned images Audio WAV, MP3 Video Office documents CAD Drawings

6 SAP ArchiveLink SAP's defined interface for connecting archive systems to R/3 and mysap SAP standard Certified by SAP AG mysap Complementary Software Program Common interface for all SAP applications Finance Logistics Human Resources. SAP R/3, mysap SAP ArchiveLink CM CommonStore Archive

7 DB2 CommonStore for SAP Certified archiving solution for all current SAP releases Any operational SAP DB (DB2, Oracle, Informix etc.) is supported FI AM SAP R/3,mySAP CO MM HR PP SD DVS ArchiveLink Data Archiving Archiving of Business Documents DB SAP Document Finder DB2 CommonStore Archive

8 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)

9 SAP Data Archiving : The Process R/3 database 1 ADK archiving program Data Archiving 1..Unloading the SAP DB 2..Storing the ADK Archive Files in Archive 3..Delete DB records from SAP DB Reorg data base ADK deletion program 3 SAP archive files 2 DB2 CommonStore Archive

10 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 personnell folders in SAP Human Resources 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

11 DB2 CommonStore for SAP and mysap.com SRM - Supplier Relationship Mgmt. CRM - Customer Relationship Mgmt. SCM - Supply Chain Management PLM - Product Life Cycle Mgmt. Portal - mysap Enterprise Portal BW - Business Information Warehouse CRM SCM BW SRM PLM Portal R/3 mysap Technology Web AS SAP ArchiveLink IBM CommonStore for SAP IBM Content Manager / TSM

12 Summary DB2 CommonStore for SAP and Content Manager and TSM Offer a full Enterprise Content Management solution for SAP R/3 and mysap 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