
SAP Archiving Appliance for Process Director by Zia
SAP Archiving Appliance for Process Director by Zia Overview
Features
- Enhanced Data Management: By integrating Zia's archiving capabilities, Process Director can manage large volumes of data more effectively, reducing SAP system overloads and improving performance.
- Compliance and Audit Readiness: Zia's solution ensures that archived data meets regulatory requirements, making it easier for Process Director to provide audit-ready information.
- Cost Efficiency: Offloading historical data to Zia’s archive reduces SAP storage costs and frees up resources, allowing Process Director to focus on real-time data processing.
- Improved Workflow Automation: With less data clutter, Process Director can automate workflows more efficiently, leading to faster processing times and reduced manual intervention.
Benefits
Zia’s SAP Archiving Appliance brings you a fully managed archiving solution to maximize performance, reduce cost, and improve time to value through rapid implementation. This virtual private cloud appliance is deployed in your cloud of choice, typically alongside your current SAP environment to maximize performance and reduce ingress and egress fess associated with SaaS offerings.
The appliance encompasses all of the necessary software and configuration to provide content management for SAP content, such as attachments, archival of SAP transactional and master data, as well as PrintList data. Zia’s solution is SAP certified for ArchiveLink and ILM on ECC and HANA.
Zia’s SAP Archiving Appliance provides:
- Enhanced SAP system performance: Reduce the size of the live database and improve system performance by moving less frequently accessed data to a separate storage system.
- Fast upgrades and response times: Decrease the time required for system backups, data migrations, and upgrades by reducing the amount of data in the live system. Enhance user productivity with faster and more efficient transactions, queries, and reporting processes.
- Reduced SAP Cost: Avoid expensive hardware and infrastructure costs associated with live SAP databases. Save on operational costs by reducing the number of users or data volume, and the time needed to backup and restore data.
- External Access to Documents and Attachments: Ensure seamless data access for reporting, analysis, historical reference, performance evaluation, auditing, and legal purposes.
- Control of Print Lists outside of SAP: Leverage and manipulate robust enhancements to Print Lists, allowing your organization to leverage data in new ways that support your business functions.
- Alignment with governance, and regulatory requirements: Store data for the required duration and ensure adherence to industry regulations and legal obligations.
- Secure storage environments: Provide a secure environment that protects and maintains the integrity and authenticity of historical and sensitive customer data. Protect data from accidental or unauthorized modification during storage and transmission.
- Access to valuable historical data: Preserve and access historical SAP data so that valuable business information is retained and available for analysis, reference, or compliance purposes, even as the SAP system evolves or data volumes grow.
Technical Details
Inputs
- Inbound content such as invoices, delivery receipts, packing slips, BoL’s, etc.
Outputs
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Automatically store documents, attachments, print lists, master data, and transactional data based on your organization’s governance and archival policies.
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Access existing documents in the standard attachment menus within SAP GUI, SAP WebGUI, Fiori with the application’s native portal environment, or through other bespoke mobile and portal experiences.
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Leverage the REST API to give users complete flexibility to continue to access information in their familiar user interface.












