Why SAP Decommissioning Needs a Business Case, Not Just a Technical Plan I’ve been working with SAP archiving and data management for a long time. One thing I keep seeing is that when we start talking about archiving or decommissioning, we usually start with the technical stuff. How big is the database? What are the biggest tables? What archive objects can we use? How much data is old? How much has already been archived? All of this is important. I look at the same things. But eventually...

Before You Shut Down SAP: Decide What Happens to the Data I have worked with SAP data archiving and data management for many years, and one thing I see with decommissioning projects is a lot of attention goes into shutting down the old system, but sometimes not enough attention goes into the data that is being left behind. Before you shut down an SAP system, you need to decide what is going to happen to the data. It sounds simple, but when an SAP system has been running for 10, 15 or 20...

AI and SAP Data Management: Where AI Actually Helps I have been working with SAP data and archiving for over 25 years. Now we are hearing AI everywhere. Almost every product has AI attached to it, and sometimes it is difficult to tell where AI is really useful and where it is just hype. From what I have seen, AI has a place in SAP data management, but it is not going to replace the basic work that still needs to be done. You still need to understand the SAP data. AI Doesn't Fix Bad Data This...