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As the deadline of mainstream maintenance of traditional SAP ECC 6.0 system is approaching on December 31,2027, many SAP customers are planning to upgrade their ERP system to newer releases. The technological or business upgrade requires sizeable planning, human efforts, and financial outlay. In addition to that, technological decisions such as, Cloud / On-Prem, Third Party storage system, Migration Approach (Greenfield, Bluefield, or Hybrid), Master data migration approach, etc., influences the overall migration initiative. Along with other options, data archiving (eDVM) should be revisited even for those customers who have been successfully archiving, for the following reasons:
To adjust to new archiving objects and utilize them going forward. S/4 system introduces new archiving objects which requires few adjustments to existing archive objects.
To use newer HANA database features for management of appliance size. The size of the appliance directly influences the hardware budget. NSE can allow intelligent management of appliance size based on the age of the data.
To explore the life of legacy systems and its retirement planning. Particularly in case of hybrid or greenfield implementation, the customers face a daunting challenge of life of legacy systems and ongoing its maintenance operations for a read-only system.
To upgrade the classical archiving capacities onto SAP ILM – Retention Management for permanent destruction of expired information.
Archiving strategy directly impacts the initial size of S/4 appliance so it is vital that it is fully baked into overall S/4 planning implementation cycle. Axcellent has worked with a customer to fit their Approximately 30 TB ECC system into 12 TB HANA appliance (6 TB of database size, Hybrid approach) with no business impact. Besides the other intangible savings, the cost savings of one-size lower appliance has paid off the entire archiving initiative on the day of go-live.
Downtime of production system is critical for many businesses, so it is desired to keep S/4 downtime as short as possible. The conversion timeline is directly proportional to the size of migrated data. Archiving is a great tool to control this aspect. We have brought the conversion down time by just one day for a manufacturing customer that saved over $1.5 million for the customer.
The operational cost of legacy systems post S/4 migration is a bigger challenge for every IT manager. Due to risk averse tendency, most of the companies tend to leave the legacy system operational in read-only mode which incurs maintenance, and logistics (rent, electricity, taxes, etc.) cost for prolonged period. Axcellent Solutions can review the legacy system in terms of type of data, sensitivity/confidentiality, reporting requirements and propose alternatives of retirement. Our analysis also includes important aspects such as, software license, hardware requirements, maintenance efforts, and feasibility of Cloud platform.
The size of migrated data directly influences large migration and conversion loads. The smaller dataset improves the performance of individual test scripts which can collectively improve the throughput of test cycles. Since S/4 conversion entail between 2-7 test cycles, these savings accumulate to a shortened timeline with overall cost savings. In summary, smaller and simplified test cycles can financially benefit the overall S/4 migration program.
One of the biggest challenges of archiving is to continue to remain compliant with regulatory reporting capabilities. Axcellent has profound knowledge and experience of local, state, federal, and global regulatory framework within SAP. This experience is helpful to preserve the reporting capabilities during & after the migration to S/4 system. In addition, Axcellent solution has certified toolsets to assure a broad-spectrum reporting capabilities.
Effective archiving strategy plays a vital role in the immediate success of S/4 upgrade and the size of database for foreseeable future. Every organization must think of the amount of migrated data to S/4 system, continued reporting capabilities, and legacy system retirement as a one decision. Disparate or short-sighted decision may cost more in terms of higher storage cost, user experience, or maintenance efforts. As per our observation, most archiving/eDVM projects pay back immediately or within first year of S/4 conversion project. Please consult Axcellent solutions to work with S/4 Integrator on how archiving/ILM can benefit overall S/4 migration initiative.
Contact our round-the-clock service centers for a tailored data archiving blueprint.
As the deadline of mainstream maintenance of traditional SAP ECC 6.0 system is approaching on December 31,2027, many SAP customers are planning to upgrade their ERP system to newer releases. The technological or business upgrade requires sizeable planning, human efforts, and financial outlay. In addition to that, technological decisions such as, Cloud / On-Prem, Third Party storage system, Migration Approach (Greenfield, Bluefield, or Hybrid), Master data migration approach, etc., influences the overall migration initiative. Along with other options, data archiving (eDVM) should be revisited even for those customers who have been successfully archiving, for the following reasons:
To adjust to new archiving objects and utilize them going forward. S/4 system introduces new archiving objects which requires few adjustments to existing archive objects.
To use newer HANA database features for management of appliance size. The size of the appliance directly influences the hardware budget. NSE can allow intelligent management of appliance size based on the age of the data.
To explore the life of legacy systems and its retirement planning. Particularly in case of hybrid or greenfield implementation, the customers face a daunting challenge of life of legacy systems and ongoing its maintenance operations for a read-only system.
To upgrade the classical archiving capacities onto SAP ILM – Retention Management for permanent destruction of expired information.
Huge size of legacy system that financially prevents the upgrade
Reporting and compliance requirements. Some specific industries require very specific data for prolonged period of time.
Complexities of testing and nos. of test cycles. The size of data has a direct impact on the test cycles.
Conversion down time. Smaller data set offers lower down-time during migration.
Security of the data
Future scalability for anticipated growth
Initial size of S/4 appliance/storage:
Archiving strategy directly impacts the initial size of S/4 appliance so it is vital that it is fully baked into overall S/4 planning implementation cycle. Axcellent has worked with a customer to fit their Approximately 30 TB ECC system into 12 TB HANA appliance (6 TB of database size, Hybrid approach) with no business impact. Besides the other intangible savings, the cost savings of one-size lower appliance has paid off the entire archiving initiative on the day of go-live.
Lowering of downtime of upgrade:
Downtime of production system is critical for many businesses, so it is desired to keep S/4 downtime as log short as possible. The conversion timeline is directly proportional to the size of migrated data. Archiving is a great tool to control this aspect. We have brought the conversion down time by just one day for a manufacturing customer that saved over $1.5 million for the customer.
Legacy systems:
The operational cost of legacy systems post S/4 migration is a bigger challenge for every IT manager. Due to risk averse tendency, most of the companies tend to leave the legacy system operational in read-only mode which incurs maintenance, and logistics (rent, electricity, taxes, etc.) cost for prolonged period. Axcellent Solutions can review the legacy system in terms of type of data, sensitivity/confidentiality, reporting requirements and propose alternatives of retirement. Our analysis also includes important aspects such as, software license, hardware requirements, maintenance efforts, and feasibility of Cloud platform.
Lowering of test cycle durations:
The size of migrated data directly influences large migration and conversion loads. The smaller dataset improves the performance of individual test scripts which can collectively improve the throughput of test cycles. Since S/4 conversion entail between 2-7 test cycles, these savings accumulate to a shortened timeline with overall cost savings. In summary, smaller and simplified test cycles can financially benefit the overall S/4 migration program.
Continued compliance reporting capabilities:
One of the biggest challenges of archiving is to continue to remain compliant with regulatory reporting capabilities. Axcellent has profound knowledge and experience of local, state, federal, and global regulatory framework within SAP. This experience is helpful to preserve the reporting capabilities during & after the migration to S/4 system. In addition, Axcellent solution has certified toolsets to assure a broad-spectrum reporting capabilities.
Effective archiving strategy plays a vital role in the immediate success of S/4 upgrade and the size of database for foreseeable future. Every organization must think of the amount of migrated data to S/4 system, continued reporting capabilities, and legacy system retirement as a one decision. Disparate or short-sighted decision may cost more in terms of higher storage cost, user experience, or maintenance efforts. As per our observation, most archiving/eDVM projects pay back immediately or within first year of S/4 conversion project. Please consult Axcellent solutions to work with S/4 Integrator on how archiving/ILM can benefit overall S/4 migration initiative.
Contact our round-the-clock service centers for a tailored data archiving blueprint.
