YASH performed a detailed system assessment of the database growth. After understanding the detailed business requirements, a phased archiving strategy was designed, and covered the archiving objects, business data elements, retention periods and retrieval plans.
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Data Archiving Reduced Payroll Processing Time
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Data Archiving Reduced Payroll Processing Time
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Industry
Life Sciences
Geography
US
The Client
Boston Medical Center
(BMC) is a private, not-for-
profit, academic medical
center and the primary
teaching affiliate for
Boston University School
of Medicine. Consistent
with its mission to provide
the best in health care
to all, BMC is the largest
safety net hospital in
New England and reaches
into the community as a
founding partner of Boston Lack of Database Maintenance Caused Performance Bottlenecks
HealthNet, a network of 15 BMC deployed SAP R/3 4.6C in 2001 and the consequent high volume of data growth had
community health centers become a major concern for the organization. With 4581 employees and more than 840,000
serving more than a quarter patient visits in 2009, the total database size in the production environment was fast growing.
million people annually. The company’s current SAP system was not efficient for reporting, queries and searches, as
the system took a very long time to process and execute. They sought a comprehensive
data archiving process for their SAP landscape to reduce the amount of live data that would
increase performance and reduce the time needed for system backup activities. Data archiving
is the process of removing mass data from the SAP database combined with ongoing storage
of this data on to secondary media. After removal, this archived data is still accessible to
end users via their SAP Standard Interfaces or third party tools. The large volumes of data
accumulating in the SAP R/3 database has significant impact on system performance, dialog
response times, time required for backup of the system and overall cost of utilization.
BMC’s objective was to reduce the overall size of the database by 30% in the areas of Human
Resources (HR), Finance and Accounting. YASH Technologies was selected as the strategic
partner to define and implement a standard archiving process along with documented
procedures for data archiving, recovery, and destruction.