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Metadata Management and Information Lifecycle Managmeent

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Information lifecycle management is a sustainable storage stragey that balances the cost of storing and managing information while ensuring accessibility to the information to support business processes.  Metadata ("data about data") provides the means for identifying and classifying information loacted across various data sources, technologies, and systems. With metadata and ILM solutions from SAP and our partners, you can mange the access, storage, and retention of data from legacy SAP systems, while complying with legal and regulatory mandates.

 

Metadata Management SAP Component or Feature Available SAP BusinessObjects Metadata Management overcomes the difficulties of managing metadata from various data sources, technologies, and systems.  With SAP BusinessObjects Metadata Management, you can consolidate metadata into an open, relational repository.  This enables you to view and analyze the integrated metadata to get information on data usage, comprehensive change impact analysis, and report-to-source data lineage to support compliance requirements, data governance initiatives, and internal controls.
 
 
Retention Management and Archiving SAP Component or Feature Available SAP NetWeaver Information Lifecycle Management (SAP NetWeaver ILM) enables companies to decommission redundant SAP systems while preserving full auditing and reporting capabilities for stored data. SAP NetWeaver ILM also allows you to set information retention rules, enabling you to retain different business records for different periods of time according to policy or legal requirements. In addition, you can preserve records related to a current legal case by collecting and placing the records on hold during the course of the legal action. SAP Document Access by Open Text provides a single point of access to SAP and non-SAP data and documents, ease of use features like virtual content folders and includes SAP Archiving by Open Text. The standalone SAP Archiving by Open Text provides low cost archiving for SAP systems only.
 
 
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