Sarbanes Oxley and other regulatory requirements make data management a top priority. Companies must have a clear, concise strategy for archiving, data retention, and records/content management that aligns with regulatory requirements. Intelligroup has developed a proprietary methodology and tools to enable effective data management, and more specifically data archiving. Maintaining data over the information life cycle is a necessary requirement. Over time, the database of customers' transactional data grows significantly that impairs system performance. Many times, the size of the database can grow to over 4 terabytes making data archiving a great way to reduce your costs, and keep the size of the database manageable.
The Assessment Phase
The discovery and analysis phase is the first step to launching an overall corporate archiving strategy. The main objectives of this phase are to understand the system landscape, provide visibility to identify objects/tables/data that need to be archived, and analyze the storage space and technical requirements. A high level project plan is prepared with estimated resources, timelines and costs.
The Awareness Phase
Here we use best practices for data governance to analyze the findings and help strategize the next steps to formulating an archiving strategy. Considerations include technology, business needs, and statutory demands. Detailed Unit Test Scenarios are documented and the touch points with other Business Processes are validated.
The Archive Execution Phase
The analysis and strategy evolved from the previous phases will be deployed to drive the execution phase. This is where the actual data movement, deletion, archival and reload takes place. The length of this phase varies widely based on the volume of data and steps required.
The Advice Phase
This phase captures the lessons learned, institutionalizing the process for periodic archiving, delivering guidance to the business/legal constituents and providing final documentation.
- Reduced Costs
- Increased Compliance
- Better system performance
- Lower downtime
- Increased Employee productivity
Intelligroup’s Comprehensive Archiving Strategy
ArchivePac is the first tool available to go beyond simple execution to address the strategic planning and data diagnostics paramount to the success of an archiving initiative. ArchivePac reduces data analysis time by up to 40% by providing a step-by-step, best practice approach to guide you through the decision making and diagnostic phase when creating a comprehensive archiving strategy. From a central Archiving Cockpit, ArchivePac analytics identify relevant SAP database objects, transaction document chains and routines to archive custom objects. |