DOWNSIZE YOUR DATABASE
Your Databases are Growing Rapidly
They’re filled with data no one’s using. All that data is online, and it’s slowing your systems down while driving up administrative costs. And this will get worse, especially if you invest in next generation technologies that require and generate lots of data.
Your historical data doesn’t need to be front and center. Historical Data needs to be available for analysis, not transactions. For example, you don’t access to every PDF invoice from FY 2005 in your day-to-day usage.
Let’s put them someplace safe – say in a lower cost storage, where it’s still easily accessible when you need it. And it will always there when you need to perform an audit or analytics.
What is Data Archiving?
Data Archiving is an integral part of the information lifecycle.
Archiving is the storage of large volumes of unused data in an external database in a manner that ensures this data remains accessible to business applications.
Your data is stored in a safe and economical location but it’s within your reach when you need it. For example:
- Your customer interactions and billing history will still be available
- Your documents will remain accessible to auditors
- Your searches will normally run on 10 million relevant records instead of 200 million historic records.
- Your can perform complex analytics with the benefit of historic data
Data Archiving and ILM are included in the Data Sherpa portfolio
This video shares more about where data archiving can help you.
Archiving Technology Capabilities
SAP Solutions
- Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
- Data Aging for SAP HANA
- Industry Specific Archiving
- Near Line storage for BW systems
Axcellent Solutions
- Store Data offline using Databases you already own
Prospecta MDO
- Data Governance engine with cloud/on-prem archiving capabilities
Archiving Consulting Services
Data Archiving Outcome and Benefits
| Results | Business Benefits | IT Benfits |
|---|---|---|
| Freeing up database space means fewer records to search through | More responsive systems | Faster systems with better response time |
| Smaller database sizes | Faster time to value from investments
Less disruption from projects | Faster upgrades
Faster Disaster Recovery from backups Reduces storage and administrative costs Opportunity to sunset “legacy” systems |
| Secure Sensitive information | Compliance achieved and happy customers | Lower security risks
Reduce risk of data loss or theft |
| Reduce administrative processes | Less time maintaining and waiting, and more time serving your customer | Lower overhead and in-source more work |
Case Study: Electric Utility
Archiving Drives Savings and Efficient Operations
Brief
This Large Electric Utility observed rapidly expanding SAP Database footprint over the past year as a result of may transformations. The firm also experienced
- Deteriorating performance of billing and call center activities due to high data volumes.
- An Upcoming IT modernization project
- Planned Infrastructure and CRM upgrades
Results
TSP performed a 6-month archiving engagement and produced the following results:
- Reducing system response time
- Reducing system backup time
- Slowing the growth of the landscape
Archiving Results
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