Data Archiving

SAP databases continue to grow leading to increased data storage costs, performance degradation and long runtimes for everyday administrative tasks and SAP upgrades.

With more than 200 archiving objects and numerous dependencies, implementing a data-archiving strategy requires technical and functional SAP knowledge as well as business consideration around regulatory compliance.

Most SAP consultants will implement data-archiving on at least one release or one module of SAP. Cogent Consulting resources have implemented data-archiving across the entire landscape in all releases of SAP and in a range of different industries including Retail, Manufacturing, Finance and Aerospace.

How do I get started?

Cogent Consulting recommend SAP ArchiveLink certified document management systems, SAP Content Server or re-use of a customers existing archive depending on the business requirement.

Agreeing business requirements can take longer than the implementation, so Cogent Consulting offer data-archiving assessments which include:


  • Analysis of future db growth and top tables to archive;

  • Assessment of functional and technical requirements;

  • Workshop to introduce data-archiving principles to business and technical stakeholders;

  • Collating business and technical requirements for archiving implementation;

  • Documentation – A comprehensive report including data-archiving implementation strategy, internal resource requirements, long term storage recommendations, user considerations retrieving certain objects, retention policies and long term housekeeping recommendations.

If you would like more information on data-archiving options please contact us via telephone or email to request an initial meeting. Cogent Consulting can facilitate reference calls with SAP users who have implemented archiving projects.