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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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Client copy comparison – SAP standard vs. Datavard Transformation Suite (DTS)
If you are running an SAP landscape, then you must have got to a point where you need to perform a client copy in one of your systems. There are multiple business scenarios for client copies, such as creation ...
The good, the bad, and the ugly of 2020
Phew! We’ve almost reached the end of 2020. If you’re anything like me, you’ve already started to refer to this year in the past tense – a clear sign that we’ve subconsciously put this somewhat eventful (read: traumatic) year behind us ...
Data growth remains one of the top challenges of SAP systems administrators. Our experience in working with various SAP environments shows that even up to 25% of your system can be polluted with temporary data, that is automatically generated data that quickly loses its value. That’s why it is ...
Data detox for your SAP landscape
SAP Data Management. Boring? Not really! With tailored strategies for data lifecycle management, you can easily cut storage costs, boost system performance and save on manual work. Let's have a look at three ways to get your systems back in shape: housekeeping, archiving and ...
Routine testing and significant project go-lives
All SAP customers face routine testing needs. These range from smaller daily items to ‘big’ disruptive events. Along that continuum, the business involvement to validate the outcome varies as well. At one end of the spectrum, there are the daily testing events related to ...
