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Heidelberg, 11 March 2021. With OutBoard, the Heidelberg-based SAP software and consulting company Datavard offers an efficient solution for the analysis and automated housekeeping of all SAP data. This enables SAP customers to reduce the size of their databases by up to 50 percent, slow down future data growth, improve system performance and enable intelligent analysis with historical data – these points are particularly important with regards to an SAP S/4HANA migration. On 17 March, Datavard’s virtual event will be all about ERP archiving. Data has become a key strategic resource for busi ..read more

Nowadays, data is growing at an exponential rate and that leads to increased costs for maintenance, licenses, and storage. A past analysis of SAP document attachments growth showed an increase of 700,000 attachments per month in a single SAP ECC system. This corresponds to a monthly storage and licenses growth of 170 GB – 350 GB which adds up to 4.1TB annually. With growth so high, it is vital to start migrating SAP historical archives and business document attachments such as purchase orders, billing documents, incoming payments, or invoices to affordable and easy to extend cloud data lakes ..read more

Datavard and PT Soltius Indonesia (SOLTIUS) announce a new partnership to accelerate SAP data management and analytics projects in Indonesia to support customers in their digital transformation journey   Singapore, 02.03.2021 – Software and consulting company Datavard AG and Indonesia’s SAP Platinum Partner SOLTIUS pool their expertise to benefit the Indonesian market. Datavard, a recognized global leader in SAP Data Management solutions and services and SAP silver Partner headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, announces a partnership with SOLTIUS, a leading SAP Value Added Reseller and C ..read more

The latest trends in the SAP world point to the importance of gathering structured and unstructured data from various sources, e.g. SAP systems, file systems or social media, in one place – the data lake. This will enable further analytics, diagnostics, and predictions thus helping to make business decisions easier. Cloud-based storage options from Google, Microsoft and Amazon or on-premise Hadoop data lakes are suitable platforms which can be integrated with SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW, SAP BW/4HANA and SAP HANA Native, using Datavard’s solutions Outboard DataTiering, Glue or DataFridge. T ..read more

Self-service business intelligence and data lakes are one of the most important priorities of CIOs and CDOs, when it comes to creating new business value for their organizations. The trend is to make data available and transparent to enable business users to get answers without having to involve IT. This is a real opportunity but in many organizations the business data is stored in various SAP systems (SAP ERP, S/4HANA, SAP CRM, SAP SRM, etc.). Data in traditional SAP archive solutions does not contribute to better business decisions SAP systems have been around for decades, unlike most on ..read more

Data today is growing, and SAP data is no exception. According to Datavard’s analysis of more than 300 SAP systems, the annual data growth is between 20-40%. Some organizations fail to implement archiving of old SAP data, data retention and housekeeping processes into organization’s standard IT processes. Often archiving does not follow a cloud-first and data analytics strategy. Migrating existing historical SAP archives and document management to the cloud, as part of an SAP cloud strategy, is far cheaper than doing nothing and sticking with the existing on-premise SAP archive. Already, mor ..read more

SAC and Power BI – more than just front-end tools  SAP and Microsoft are well established software providers with highly evolved and successful BI tools – SAP Analytics Cloud and Power BI, which cater to a wide audience including developers, business users and power users. Even though, we start off by calling them front-end tools, they are more than just visualization platforms for creating and developing reports and dashboards. Let us briefly explore the tools here and learn more about them side-by-side. How do they compare? Basic introduction to the tools SAC (SAP Analytics Cloud) i ..read more

SOFFCONT1 table grows quickly in SAP landscapes and is often found in the top 10 largest tables in the system (TIP: check the list of largest tables in DB02 transaction). This table belongs to SOC3 and contains SAP Business Workplace/SAPoffice Documents attachments or created attachments via the Global Object Service (e.g. PDF scan of the purchase order or invoice). The size of SOFFCONT1 depends significantly on how these types of documents / attachments are used in the system and how they are stored. If an external storage is not used, SAP stores the office attachments in the SOFFCONT1 table ..read more

Client copy comparison – SAP standard vs. Datavard Transformation Suite (DTS) If you are running an SAP landscape, then you must have got into a point when you need to perform a client copy in one of your systems. There are multiple business scenarios for client copies, such as  creation of a new client for development or testing purposes on an already existing system or a data refresh within a specific client. Doing a client copy is also easier and less “invasive” than restoring or running a backup of the whole database.  Although client copy is a commonly used functionality with b ..read more