Technology is advancing at the speed of light and to keep pace with the competitors it is becoming increasingly important for companies to not just know what data they possess but to retrieve the right data at the right time to make strategic business decisions and keep ahead of the cut throat competition.
SAP is increasingly being used by many companies today as their core enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. In this regard, test data management companies can help business to keep their SAP systems working at their optimal capacity, deliver more effective results and reduce operational cost with smart data management applying information lifecycle management. With nearline solutions, businesses can keep control of their growing data bases without the need of an external storage. Data management companies can help businesses decrease their system size with increased performance and identify system bottlenecks in order to correct them in a timely fashion.
Following are top three reasons why a business should hire a data management company:
Data growth under control
With the use of flexible data analysis software, you can get a quick overview of data in your BW that are not necessary for daily business and can be archived or deleted. Using Nearline storage for SAP archiving can compress cold data (older than 2 years) up to 95% of its size, while keeping it readily available whenever needed. Due to decreased system's size it scales up a system's performance and simplifies its administration. SAP archiving solution is a great way to get quick returns on investment with effective data compression and automation functions that can significantly reduce you operational costs.
The near line storage provided by a data management company keeps relevant data to be used on a daily basis in online databases, while one that is old and is not requested so frequently is archived in nearline storage that offers a user flexibility to extract them whenever needed.
System Monitoring
Besides offering near line solutions, if you are frequently facing problems with your SAP systems, a data management company can provide you with performance, processes and security monitoring tools to help you identify, understand and correct bottle necks and keep your system perform at its optimal level.
It can eliminate slow and unstable data upload and safeguards your online availability before it begins to impact your business or your clients.
System Improvement
While SAP archiving is an important aspect of data management, equally important is to be able to know your system for its strengths and weaknesses so that the system could be upgraded accordingly. Data management companies can run SAP Performance Test and offer actionable recommendations after analyzing your system, which helps businesses maximize return on current investments before they invest in new ones.
In order to enhance SAP BW performance, DataVard solutions identify and block duplicates, optimizes system landscape by making it more powerful and efficient and offers quick and cost effect way to migrate your data between two systems. "This results in high quality data being available at all times with a leaner SAP system occupying minimum space on your data servers. The data transfer rate is faster than ever and automated workflow reduces your costs of paying heavy paychecks to employees," the spokesperson concluded.