Mitigate business risk with compliant data archiving and retention

Streamline your IT infrastructure and protect the privacy rights of your consumer data with the SAP Information Lifecycle Management (SAP ILM) component. You can automate data archiving and retention, as well as the decommissioning of legacy systems, while balancing the total cost of ownership, risk, and legal compliance.

• On-premise deployment
• Data creation, usage, storage, and destruction
• Reduction of IT landscape growth and complexity
• Access to a wealth of data at a lower cost

Key benefits

Control your data volumes and manage your risk

Establish a strategy for data governance by enabling native integration, optimized data compression, and automated, rule-based retention management.

Lower cost and complexity of your IT landscape

Eliminate the time, money, and resources needed to maintain redundant and obsolete systems, while retaining on-demand access to data in legacy systems.

Improve compliance with legal requirements

Adopt a complete, flexible, and automated approach to information lifecycle management to help your business adapt to changing regulations consistently.

Key features

Data archiving and management

• Manage data volumes while keeping business context completely intact
• Move outdated data securely into long-term, less-expensive storage
• Provide convenient access to archived data

Retention management

• Support the complete lifecycle of structured and unstructured data
• Define data management policies and rules
• Know where data is stored, how long data is retained, and when data can be destroyed

System decommissioning

• Shut down legacy systems and bring data from SAP and third-party systems into a central warehouse
• View data even after the original system has been shut down
• Provide on-demand data access and reporting options