Archiving Your SAP Data 2nd Edition Hardback

This much anticipated, completely revised edition of our bestseller provides you with valuable knowledge to implement and master data archiving with SAP. It examines the fundamental technologies in detail, and highlights the concrete processes in data archiving-from archivability checks to the archiving process, and from storing created archive files to displaying archived data. This book focuses on data archiving in the SAP R/3 system, although it also deals with more recent archiving concepts for mySAP CRM and SAP BI. The final chapter provides readers with a practical step-by-step description of the standardized phases of planning and executing an archiving project. New topics in this edition are, among others, Archive Routing, transaction TAANA, and XML archiving.

The book covers all aspects of archiving in SAP ERP systems up to mySAP ERP 2005 (ECC 6.0) and includes special archiving concepts for mySAP ERP HCM, mySAP CRM and SAP NetWeaver BI. It addresses the specific requirements of system and database administrators as well as project collaborators who implement data archiving in an SAP customer project.

Highlights:

• Basics and Processes Storage of Archiving Files
• Accessing Archived Files
• Archive Development Kit (ADK)
• Archive Routing
• Transaction TAANA XML Archiving
• Archiving in mySAP ERP (incl. HCM), mySAP CRM and SAP NetWeaver BI
• Description of Project Phases
• Checklist for Projects

Helmut Stefani studied applied linguistics at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz/Germersheim, Germany, where he graduated as a technical translator for English and Spanish. After working in England he returned to Germany to work for an American company as a CAD software localization specialist. He has worked at SAP as an information developer and product management specialist in data archiving since 1997, and has jointly authored several publications on this subject.