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As a full-service firm, our commitment and dedication to applying the latest in modern project management processes, controls, and tools, in addition to our world-class propriety SAP archiving and decommissioning software, has allowed us to manage risk, scope, and successfully deliver on client goals and project objectives.
Our team is made up of Solution Consultants with decades worth of experience in SAP archiving and decommissioning. In addition, with SAP making a push to move its customers to S/4HANA by halting maintenance on legacy systems by 2027, our team is equipped to support organizations during this transition and beyond into future phases of the SAP journey.
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Decommissioning - SAP
Archiving - Enterprise Content
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Decommissioning
SAP Application Decommissioning
Control growth costs, improve access, and simplify compliance
While historical information remains important to the organization for compliance, reporting, and analysis, preserving this data requires long-term support of legacy applications, often sitting on obsolete hardware. Migrating and consolidating this valuable information to a modern archive and decommissioning these costly legacy systems can improve access, lower costs, and simplify compliance.
Organizations are experiencing a rapid increase of business information, as well as an increase in regulatory requirements. Legacy and enterprise SAP applications are bursting with structured and unstructured SAP data and content. And with the transforming enterprise, it’s becoming essential for organizations to provide access and analytic capabilities for this valuable information. This includes the migration to new applications, especially in the case of S/4HANA, where organizations often migrate from multiple applications, where data is essential to maintain but applications are no longer used productively following the migration.
This accumulation and the desire for accessibility stretches capacity to the breaking point, with higher costs for servers, storage, application maintenance, database software and operations.
Keeping all information in its source or legacy SAP application is neither cost-effective nor scalable. Adherence to regulatory mandates and internal information retention policies such as privacy, security, and legal preservation requirements demands a unified compliant system that provides secure accessibility. And back-up is only a temporary measure since it’s difficult to access, not compliant, and costly to reproduce. The maintenance of these SAP systems is also a huge drain on budgets that could instead be focused on application infrastructure modernization by decommissioning these systems and archiving the data in a simple, compliant manner.
BENEFITS OF APPLICATION DECOMMISSIONING
Lower costs
Increasing costs of hardware, software, infrastructure, and expertise place stress on IT budgets and resources. Migration and consolidation of SAP data from legacy applications can lead to instant cost-savings, as systems ranging from gigabytes to terabytes of data can be completely decommissioned, with no dependency on the original application. This allows you to do away with obsolete hardware and the costs that come with maintaining and supporting it.
Simplify regulatory compliance and long-term retention
Millions of dollars are spent protecting and maintaining legacy hardware, software, and infrastructure solely for regulatory compliance purposes. A sound decommissioning plan can address the encryption, privacy, and retention requirements of information governance policies, consolidating compliance efforts for both structured and unstructured data from multiple applications, mitigating risk and simplifying compliance.
Unify access
Many organizations struggle to gain a single view of all their relevant business information, archived data, and decommissioned data in order to gain valuable, actionable insights. Sigma Business Solutions can help unify access to this information to help you effectively maximize the value in your data.
Scalable and efficient for growth and migration
System decommissioning supports SAP’s goal of moving existing customers to SAP S/4HANA and the cloud. When organizations move to S/4HANA, they can either migrate all data to the new environment (“brownfield”) or, more strategically, migrate only business relevant data to the new S/4HANA environment. The latter approach allows you to retire legacy systems and optimizes for database growth in the new HANA environment by preparing your data foundation in advance of the migration.
As a trusted partner of OpenText, our Services extend into their technology suite including OpenText InfoArchive, Extended ECM, Documentum, and Vendor Invoice Management.
To learn more about our Services, Contact Us Today
Additional Service Competencies:
- SAP BASIS Administration
- Fiori Administration
- SAP ILM
- SAP Application Decommissioning
- SAP Archiving
- SAP Security
- SAP DART
- SAP HANA DB Services
Additional Service Competencies:
- SAP BASIS Administration
- Fiori Administration
- SAP ILM
- SAP Application Decommissioning
- SAP Archiving
- SAP Security
- SAP DART
- SAP HANA DB Services
Archiving
SAP Archiving
Archiving SAP data is an effective way to maintain optimal performance of SAP systems while reducing the total cost of ownership and mitigating legal risk. Effective archiving keeps the database at an optimal size by moving the data outside of the database without compromising access required by the users.
Due to exponential SAP data growth, you may be facing:
- Degradation in systems performance
- Poor query response , slow report run times, longer month-end closing process
- Continued expenditures on infrastructure and other IT costs
- Processors, storage, utilities, real estate, maintenance, personnel
- A burden on systems administration activities
- Backups, upgrades, system refreshes/copy, disaster recovery
- Exposure to corporate liability due to lack of compliance to retention policies maintain but applications are no longer used productively following the migration.
Benefits of SAP Archiving:
Improved system performance
By reducing the overall size of your SAP database, system performance and efficiency increases
Reduced of time and effort for system administration
Back-ups, client copy, upgrades, refreshes, disaster recovery, month end processes
Reduction of IT infrastructure costs
Archived SAP data is compressed at an average of 5:1, lending to a savings in storage costs
Reduction of computer processors and other infrastructure costs
Risk mitigation
Simplify compliance to corporate retention policies
Allows for easier adoption of new technology
Adopt new technology ie. HANA in a cost-effective and affordable manner, as HANA costs are driven by data volume
Sigma provides complete project implementation services, including:
- Analysis and recommendations
- Archiving strategy
- SAP system configuration, Test, Q/A and Archiving in production
- Access solutions such as standard SAP and PBS Software
- Archive automation
- Content Management solutions – PBS Contentlink, Documentum, OpenText Archive Server
- Other Archiving solutions such as DART for TA reporting
Additional Service Competencies:
- SAP BASIS Administration
- Fiori Administration
- SAP ILM
- SAP Application Decommissioning
- SAP Archiving
- SAP Security
- SAP DART
- SAP HANA DB Services
Additional Service Competencies:
- SAP BASIS Administration
- Fiori Administration
- SAP ILM
- SAP Application Decommissioning
- SAP Archiving
- SAP Security
- SAP DART
- SAP HANA DB Services
Management
Enterprise Content Management
Sigma Business Solutions offers full-service implementation of OpenText Extended Enterprise Content Management (Extended ECM), to help your organization integrate content services to bridge content silos, expedite information flows, and expand data governance.
About OpenText Extended ECM
With OpenText™ Extended ECM Platform, content is transparently integrated with other leading applications such as SAP S/4HANA®, SAP® SuccessFactors®, Salesforce®, Microsoft® Office 365® or any other process-driving software. With ECM integrations, the content services platform bridges content silos and intelligently automates business processes to allow information to flow effortlessly across applications. Extended ECM Platform leverages an organization’s investment in its enterprise content services software and other applications, while improving transparency and insight to improve decision making, automate business processes and expand the reach of governance policies.
About OpenText Extended ECM
Integrations to Enterprise Applications
Present content in the context of the business process or lead application user interface. This can include ERP integrations such as SAP® S/4HANA and Oracle® E-Business Suite, HR Applications like SAP® SuccessFactors® and CRM integrations such as Salesforce®. Productivity tools like Microsoft Office 365 and Sharepoint are also supported by OpenText Extended ECM. By providing a range of content services and APIs, other lead applications can also benefit from Extended ECM.
Intuitive User Experience
Enhance productivity and eliminate barriers to adoption by allowing users to remain within the business application they are most comfortable with, while simultaneously accessing information necessary to get the job done. Users without access to the lead application can work with the same content used in the driving process via the Extended ECM Smart View. This intuitive UI displays select metadata related to the business object being managed in the lead application.
Connected Workspaces
Simplify ECM software deployment using templates aligned to business processes. As virtual models of a real-world business object, Connected Workspaces can be related to a customer, product, employee, purchase order or any other business object type. Workspaces can be created automatically from the lead application.
Benefits of ECM Integration
Improved process efficiency
Accelerate cycle time by automating manual tasks, simplifying access and improving content collaboration. Gain efficiency from both the lead application and the enterprise content management tools.
Better productivity
Offer users a 360-degree view of both structured and unstructured business content from a single interface, providing content in context without the need to switch between different applications.
Streamlined innovation and time-to-revenue
Transform business models and digitizes value chains with an integrated approach to ECM that extends content services into the organization’s foundational technology environment.
Intelligent insight
Deliver deeper insight into product, customer, supplier or asset performance through integrated data and content analytics for improved decision-making.
Mitigate compliance risk
Automatically apply metadata and classifications transparently in the background, without end-user intervention.
One version of the truth
Achieve a centralized repository for all business content regardless of the origin or source and ensure that all stakeholders are working with the most current and relevant content.
As a trusted partner of OpenText, our Services extend into their technology suite including OpenText InfoArchive, Extended ECM, Documentum, and Vendor Invoice Management.
To learn more about our Services, Contact Us Today
Additional Service Competencies:
- SAP BASIS Administration
- Fiori Administration
- SAP ILM
- SAP Application Decommissioning
- SAP Archiving
- SAP Security
- SAP DART
- SAP HANA DB Services
Additional Service Competencies:
- SAP BASIS Administration
- Fiori Administration
- SAP ILM
- SAP Application Decommissioning
- SAP Archiving
- SAP Security
- SAP DART
- SAP HANA DB Services
As a trusted partner of OpenText, our Services extend into their technology suite including OpenText InfoArchive, Extended ECM, Documentum, and Vendor Invoice Management.
To learn more about our Services, Contact Us Today
Additional Service Competencies:
- SAP BASIS Administration
- Fiori Administration
- SAP ILM
- SAP Application Decommissioning
- SAP Archiving
- SAP Security
- SAP DART
- SAP HANA DB Services
