Category Archives: SAP Information Lifecycle Management

The top three myths about SAP Data Archiving

  Data archiving is an event—Wrong. Data archiving is a process, not a project. Many companies archive their critical business data on an arbitrary schedule—whenever someone thinks of it, once a year, or even just once. But proper data archiving … Continue reading

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Why is legacy decommissioning so important?

Simply put, Legacy Decommissioning improves efficiency and lowers total cost of ownership of an IT infrastructure. Conversely, keeping legacy systems alive translates to high costs for IT in terms of maintenance for hardware and software. Plus, it requires skillsets to … Continue reading

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Are you Ready for an Audit?

When the IRS or other tax and regulatory agencies call, are you ready? There was a time in the SAP world that being “audit ready” meant implementing SAP DART before archiving. But for many companies, being audit data ready means … Continue reading

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SAP Business Warehouse Accelerator (BWA): Are the benefits worth the cost?

In a searchSAP.com story, editor Courtney Bjorlin reports that many users are upset about the cost of improving SAP NetWeaver BW performance with its BW Accelerator. In the article, Dolphin’s CEO Werner Hopf offers insight into how to assess your … Continue reading

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Information Lifecycle Management – Defined

Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) is the practice of strategically managing the data within your organization—including determining where it is stored, how quickly it can be accessed, how it is tracked, and how long it must be retained. With a well-planned … Continue reading

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Dolphin CEO on Optimizing SAP NetWeaver BW with NLS

Dolphin CEO Werner Hopf is published in an SAPInsider Special Report on Business Intelligence. Dr. Hopf presents a compelling case for innovative use of nearline storage (NLS) — optimized for analytics with a columnar database — to both improve performance … Continue reading

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Let Cost-Performance Drive Your SAP Data Archiving Strategy

We had a terrific response to our last webinar and we thought we’d share some insights. Our point is this: When thinking about data archiving, look at cost versus performance. In other words, over time, how much is it going … Continue reading

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Dolphin Document Navigator & Output 3.0 for SAP Solutions

Simplifies Search, Navigation and Mass output of linked documents. Integrated with SAP applications, this adds mass output and Web access to Dolphin’s indexing and search platform, allowing customers to manage documents, storage and capture in a hardware-agnostic way. Dolphin’s platform … Continue reading

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BW volume is exploding! Is your BW system keeping up?

Business Intelligence (BI) and other data-driven BI applications such as SAP NetWeaver BW help businesses improve transactions and manage massive data volumes. But technology infrastructure limits how fast you can analyze and get the information you need to make well-informed … Continue reading

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