An efficient data management strategy is an important part of trying to maintain good system performance and keep the total cost of your system in check. Keeping transactional data online once closed is expensive and often full of risk. The real challenge is not storage but information management.

ECM Consulting offers ‘Smart SAP Data Assessment’ – Customer will get a comprehensive assessment report that addresses the needs of your data management by

• Identifying fast-growing business objects
• Recommending how to manage top 20 table data

Today your SAP database is constantly growing. Apart from high expenses for data storage and system administration, the high database volume leads to performance degradation and long run times for backup jobs.

Did you know the most of data stored in a SAP database is static and can be archived, relieving the load on SAP database but keeping information accessible for users?

ECM Consulting provides archiving solutions that fit into a comprehensive Information Lifecycle Management strategy: one that addresses the complex needs of your business, regulatory compliance and the cost of maintaining and upgrading your IT environment.

Document Archiving links document content to the SAP business context. Doing this eliminates information silos, time-consuming, expensive regular mail or express delivery services, as well as the need for paper archives. Document Archiving for SAP Solutions enables you to create, access, manage, and securely archive all SAP content.

Document Archiving is a highly scalable and secure repository for business-critical SAP business documents and data. It is designed for the complete range of business documents such as incoming/outgoing invoices, orders, delivery notes, quality certificates, HR employee documents, archived SAP data, and more.

Accounts Payable Automation in SAP can help you to increase productivity and reduces cost per invoice

What happens at your company when invoices arrive?

• Are they manually keyed into the SAP system?
• Searching outdated records in SAP?
• Are boxes of older records filed in warehouses?
• Do the people responsible for the accounts payable process have visibility into the approval and exception process?

Accounts payable is a complex process that is ripe for automation. Invoices arrive by mail, fax, email and online. Efficient, effective accounts payable management – from the moment the invoice arrives through approval, posting, and payment – can have a dramatic impact on costs, productivity and the bottom line.

ECM Consulting provides options to fit each customer’s needs, taking significant time and cost out of the Accounts Payable process. We integrate solutions that automate getting invoice documents and data into SAP, including scanning and optical character recognition (OCR).

System Consolidation and Legacy Archiving and Decommissioning

You have decided to migrate your business application to a modern application platform. The migration of the master data and the necessary online data is already scheduled or completed. But what to do with the large volume of historic data, that still resides in the old application and prevents you from shutting it down.

When replacing an old system with a new application, companies take the opportunity to get rid of the burden of historic data that has accumulated in the old system. These data are no longer needed in day to day business, but must be accessible just in case or even be retained for legal reasons.

Legacy consolidation has to be managed and addressed in the context of an enterprise information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy. Methods for doing this vary from enterprise to enterprise – and even within an organization.