Database growth: a modern day challenge
Managing the relentless expansion of databases has become a critical challenge for organisations.
As businesses grow and digital transformation accelerates, the volume of transactional and operational data accumulates rapidly, increasing storage costs and impacting system performance.
With businesses increasingly adopting hybrid environments combining on-premises and cloud solutions, optimising systems for performance is critical.
Addressing this issue requires strategic data archiving solutions that not only reduce the size of active databases but also ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
By systematically identifying and archiving historical data, organisations can optimise database performance, lower operational costs, and streamline system upgrades, all while safeguarding the integrity and accessibility of essential records.
SAP Data Archiving: a solution for multiple business needs
The data archiving project consists of a writing phase, where data is compressed and archived, followed by a deletion phase, where the data is removed from the database.
The archived data remains accessible through standard transactions and custom tools designed to meet specific business needs.
Business may consider turning to archiving not only due to rapid database expansion that puts a strain on their wallet, and system performance, to allow for a seamless and rapid migration from one solution to another, but also to achieve ESG goals, including carbon footprint reduction.
A structured data archiving project can address these challenges by systematically moving inactive or obsolete data to long-term storage, optimising system performance, reducing operational and infrastructural costs and enhance sustainability thanks to lower energy consumption and database footprint.
Benefits of data achiving
Far from being merely a storage solution, data archiving offers a host of tangible benefits that drive efficiency, cost savings, and long-term value while ensuring compliance with regulations.
The financial advantages of data archiving are both direct and indirect.
Directly, it lowers expenses associated with storage and infrastructure by transferring less critical historical data to less expensive systems.
Indirectly, archiving improves system performance, which enhances productivity by enabling data cleaning as well as faster transactions and streamlined operations.
Additionally, for organisations planning to review their application framework to optimise SAP or to transition to SAP S/4HANA, whether through a Greenfield or Brownfield approach, data archiving is a critical enabler. By reducing the volume of data requiring migration, archiving not only lowers storage costs but also accelerates and simplifies the overall migration process.
Last but not least, smaller, optimised databases unlock operational advantages that go beyond cost. Backups are faster, testing becomes more agile, and user transactions are quicker and more responsive. Despite the move, accessibility is preserved, ensuring businesses meet regulatory and audit requirements without compromising efficiency.
SAP Data Archiving, the Fincons way
With years of experience both in the E&U sector and with SAP, Fincons has developed a flexible approach to SAP data archiving, to offer the Group’s clients fast and effective archiving.
Additionally, Fincons offers a proprietary multi-process solution that enhances SAP’s standard tools by significantly accelerating archiving activities. To minimise bottlenecks and speed up archiving, Fincons developed an innovative solution, that can reduce processing time by up to 90%, minimising operational disruption to keep businesses running smoothly during the archiving process and enabling high customisation to tailor controls, visualisation tools, and reporting capabilities to unique business needs.
Fincons’ approach to data archiving involves:
- Database analysis: to understand year-on-year growth trends and define a retention period to archive older data.
- Cost-benefit evaluation: balancing the retention of operationally critical data with the cost savings of archiving.
- Fincons’ proprietary solution: a multi-process solution to accelerate the process
- Continuous archiving with customised scheduling: tailoring archiving schedules to business needs, ensuring minimal disruption.
Fincons’ Expertise in SAP Data Archiving
With extensive experience in the SAP domain, and a dedicated SAP Competence Center, Fincons combines technical expertise with a proven methodology to deliver efficient, scalable, and tailored archiving solutions.
Additionally, Fincons’ process expertise, market and regulatory knowledge give the Group a competitive advantage when it comes to data archiving using SAP solutions.
Whether you're addressing immediate storage constraints or preparing for a transformative SAP migration, Fincons can help you reduce database size by up to two-thirds, achieving long-term benefits while minimising operational disruptions.
By implementing SAP Data Archiving, businesses can move beyond merely managing data growth to strategically leveraging it for cost savings, enhanced performance, and sustainable operations.
For more information, contact us to explore how SAP Data Archiving can transform your organisation's database management.
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