Proceed Holdings Ltd

Proceed partnered with a major utility company in the northern United States, facing a 40TB database and growing. The risks and costs of migrating it to the cloud and S/4HANA were monumental, so Proceed got called in to cap this growth and reduce the amount of data being migrated. Discover how they downsized the 40TB database by 50% in 6 months > https://www.proceedgroup.com/sap-data-archiving/proceed-rightsizer-in-action-halving-the-database-size-for-cloud-and-s-4hana-in-just-6-months

With a need to tackle data compliance and system performance issues, the British Council engaged Proceed Group through a public sector procurement process. The solution involved diving deep into the Council’s data to identify an effective data archiving and blocking strategy using SAP ILM. This ensured data protection, reduced their database size from 2.4 TB to 1 TB and reduced wait times by 80%.

Organisations like Gloucestershire County Council, are making early strides to prepare for the move to S/4HANA by reviewing the data that sits within their systems to ensure a most efficient transition that is both cost- effective and space efficient. Learn how, with the help of Proceed Group, they successfully reduced their data volume by 64% and the implementation for SAP ILM.

For a smoother migration process and to reduce costs, Derbyshire County Council, together with Proceed, created an archiving strategy to ensure the existing data infrastructure was as lean as possible prior to the move and that any future data was set to be automatically archived if required but still assessible.

Moving to AWS cloud meant NGN needed to decommission their legacy storage solution. Due to statutory legalities, the old data needed to be accessible within their SAP environment. Using OpenText’s Archive Centre, Proceed successfully migrated all documents and created link table entries in AWS SAP. NGN has now completely removed the old data centre, achieving significant reductions in infrastructure spend, and a leaner data environment.

Migrating our SAP ECC6 system on Oracle to Business Suite on HANA was challenging because of the high operational cost of running a 3.4TB database size in memory. Reducing the database size to below 0.5TB in less than 3 months paid for the archiving project with an ROI of below 2 years.” Paul Knoester, Group IT Operations Director, Croda International Plc

McCain Foods Limited established in 1957 in Florenceville New Brunswick, Canada, They are the world's largest manufacturer of frozen potato products with employees <19,000. Operating in 34 countries from 1 SAP instance in Canada.We installed SAP ILM and OpenText which was a 6 month project. Firstly setting up 31 archive objects with 8 different retention periods. Without SAP ILM they would have had to setup 248 variants of these archive objects and maintain them. They now do archive runs weekly.

Kingfisher PLC are a British multinational retailing company with a revenue of 11.22 billion GBP Kingfisher needed to review their DM strategy as very little archiving had been carried out prior going to HEC. They are notabley the first customer with ILM and SAP IQ in HEC. Having 26 ILM objects setup to control SAP HANA growth, for every 100GB growth in the database they take out 100GB negating growth Now they are looking install SAP ILM for decommissioning up to 80 SAP and Non SAP systems.