An accelerated methodology designed to assess your SAP environment, identify data reduction opportunities, and define a structured archiving strategy.
Result: a prioritized roadmap, along with an estimate of the required effort and potential gains.
Executive Summary
The DVMS Fast Track is a structured assessment designed to define a comprehensive Data Volume Management Strategy for SAP environments. It provides organizations with a clear roadmap to control data growth, optimize system performance, and prepare for future transformations such as S/4HANA or RISE with SAP.
Business Context
Uncontrolled data growth in SAP systems leads to increased infrastructure costs, degraded performance, and operational inefficiencies. Many organizations lack a global strategy to manage data lifecycle across systems, resulting in fragmented archiving initiatives and missed optimization opportunities.
Objectives
- Establish a global data volume management strategy
- Identify high-impact archiving opportunities
- Align business, technical, and compliance requirements
- Define a prioritized and sequenced roadmap
Methodology
- Data Analysis & Discovery
Extraction and analysis of system data, tables, and growth trends - Strategy Definition
Identification of archiving candidates and structuring of initiatives - Roadmap & Planning
Prioritization of actions, effort estimation, and sequencing
Target Clients
- Organizations looking at RISE with SAP (ECC to S/4HANA with blue or brown field)
- SAP ECC environments with large databases
- SAP S/4 Hana growth control
- Companies seeking long-term cost optimization
Business Benefits
- Controlled data growth
- Reduced infrastructure and storage costs
- Improved system performance
- Strategic alignment across IT and business
Return on Investment (ROI)
SAP data archiving projects, typically reduce database sizes by 40-60% while yielding multimillion-dollar savings in storage, licensing, and maintenance.
This sample uses a 25TB database reduced to 11TB over 12 months, based on real life industry examples. Annual savings escalate from freed storage (~$0.1/TB/month initial) plus HANA licensing relief (~30% of costs).
This results in reductions of DB size by 55% leading to over $5M in benefits.
| Month | DB Size (TB) | Annual Savings ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-Project | 25 | 0.00 |
| Month 3 | 22 | 1.20 |
| Month 6 | 18 | 3.00 |
| Month 12 | 14 | 4.80 |
| Post-Project | 11 | 6.00 |
The chart below illustrates the progressive DB reduction (in blue) alongside rising annual dollar benefits (in red), highlighting ROI acceleration post-implementation.
Scope of Work
- Full database size and growth analysis
- Mapping of SAP archive objects and data domains
Timeline
A typical DVMS takes about 3 to 6 weeks with 2 resources.
The Fast Track version takes 3 days with 1 resource.
Deliverables
- EDVMS strategy document
- Detailed analysis of data footprint
- Archiving roadmap (phased approach)
- Effort and timeline estimation
- Recommendations on tools and access methods (SAP standard, PBS, etc.)
Call to Action
Define your data strategy before your system defines your costs.