SAP Information Lifecycle Management

Manage information through its lifecycle while balancing cost, risk, and compliance.

Mitigate business risk with compliant data archiving and retention

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Streamline your IT infrastructure and protect the privacy rights of your consumer data with the SAP Information Lifecycle Management (SAP ILM) component. You can automate data archiving and retention, as well as the decommissioning of legacy systems, while balancing the total cost of ownership, risk, and legal compliance.

  • On-premise deployment
  • Data creation, usage, storage, and destruction
  • Reduction of IT landscape growth and complexity
  • Access to a wealth of data at a lower cost

Benefits

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Control your data volumes and manage your risk

Establish a strategy for data governance by enabling native integration; optimised data compression; and automated, rule-based retention management.

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Lower cost and complexity of your IT landscape

Eliminate the time, money, and resources needed to maintain redundant and obsolete systems, while retaining on-demand access to data in legacy systems.

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Improve compliance with legal requirements

Adopt a complete, flexible, and automated approach to information lifecycle management to help your business adapt to changing regulations consistently.

SAP S/4HANA implementation with high quality data

Hear from experts on the imperative of data quality as part of a data management strategy to help make better decisions and a successful digital transformation.

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Learn the strategic value of data management to an SAP S/4HANA implementation

Right-sizing not only saves cost, effort, and time, but it also helps you to comply with regulatory obligations.  Learn how SAP Information Lifecycle Management can help to safely off-load data to a retention warehouse on low-cost commodity hardware.

Features

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Data archiving and management
  • Manage data volumes while keeping business context completely intact
  • Move outdated data securely into long-term, less-expensive storage
  • Provide convenient access to archived data
Retention management
  • Support the complete lifecycle of structured and unstructured data
  • Define data management policies and rules
  • Know where data is stored, how long data is retained, and when data can be destroyed
System decommissioning
  • Shut down legacy systems and bring data from SAP and third-party systems into a central warehouse
  • View data even after the original system has been shut down
  • Provide on-demand data access and reporting options

Build a business case

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Help ensure compliant data protection and privacy

Keep pace with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements, as well as other similar policies and regulatory mandates.

Migrate data to SAP S/4HANA with greater ease

Provide full access to structured data and unstructured content, while establishing a legally compliant foundation for comprehensive, enterprise-wide information management.

Technical and security information

Protect your enterprise with built-in security features and add-on solutions from SAP. This product is deployed in the cloud and is available as software as a service (SaaS), so you can access your software from any Web browser.

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Installation and setup

Follow the setup instructions so you can start running your SAP software quickly and confidently.

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Configuration

Optimise the configuration of an SAP product with our comprehensive configuration guide.

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Integration

Find out how you can integrate an SAP product with your existing IT landscape.

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Cloud delivery options

Enable a smooth transformation while meeting security and compliance requirements.

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Data security

Help protect confidentiality and data integrity.

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Cloud delivery options

Enable a smooth transformation while meeting security and compliance requirements.

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Business process security

Support compliance with regulatory requirements.

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Risk and threat mitigation

Drive continuous improvement across your operations.

Get Started

Jump-start your implementation and drive ROI by collaborating with industry experts, consultants, and support engineers throughout your journey.

Services

Transform your business quickly and effectively by taking advantage of our holistic service and support plans, expert consulting services, custom application development, proven best practices, and deep industry and technical knowledge.

Support

Help keep your SAP solutions running at peak performance with our IT experts and support services, including long-term plans, embedded teams, remote technology support, self-service portal, and innovation strategies.