How to Build an SAP Archiving Strategy That Lasts

SAP archiving has become a critical operational requirement for enterprises running large and long-standing SAP environments. While organizations continue expanding their SAP landscapes, many are also dealing with rapidly growing databases, performance degradation, rising storage costs, and increasing complexity around managing historical data.

In this episode, Karkavel M Jegadeesan, CTO & Co-Founder at Archon, along with Jagadeesh, AVP SAP Practice at Archon, explores how SAP archiving works, the common challenges enterprises face during archival initiatives, and why archiving should no longer be treated as a secondary IT activity. From rapidly growing transaction tables and unmanaged unstructured data to ADK file dependencies and custom Z table complexities, the discussion highlights the hidden operational issues that impact long-term SAP performance and modernization efforts.

The conversation focuses on the limitations of traditional SAP archiving approaches, the challenges of accessing archived data outside SAP environments, and the growing importance of governance, compliance, and retention management as organizations move toward SAP modernization and legacy system decommissioning.