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.

With SAP NetWeaver ILM, you can:

• Maintain compliance with data retention regulations – Ensure compliance with data retention regulations by creating separate archives based on data retention rules set to reflect varying data lifetime requirements.
• Significantly reduce IT management costs by consolidating systems – Reduce costs by decommissioning redundant systems and consolidating IT infrastructure while preserving full auditing and reporting options on the data from the decommissioned systems.
• Improve IT system performance by reducing database size – Enable IT systems to perform faster, use less hardware resources, and increase availability by archiving data and deleting unneeded data from the database.
• Reduce cost and risk associated with legal discovery – Automate the collection of data related to legal cases to ensure a faster, cheaper, and more comprehensive process with less use of manual resources.

Learn More

Read "Managing the Information Life Cycle" (PDF) to learn more about SAP tools and technologies for information life-cycle management.