Proceed Archiving News

Are you starting to think about your Solution Manager Upgrade to 7.1 ?
Reducing the size of your SolMan database before the upgrade is an essential task that should not be overlooked. Not forgetting ongoing maintenance, a trim database will aid your SolMan operation and aid performance. See how Proceed can help reduce and manage your data volumes in Solution Manager.

Proceed now offer a short, 2 day, audit of your archiving landscape, looking at the server and software, patch levels, performance, and current utilisation. See our Audit page for more info.

Are you a dynamic, enthusiastic and capable person? Are you looking for your next career move? Do you think you have what it takes to join our winning team?
We are currently recruiting for the roles of a business consultant, an ABAP technical consultant and an SAP BI consultant.
If this sounds like the role you/re looking for, please drop us a line !!



The Proceed Archiving Workbench aims to bring together the most commonly used transactions and resources required for implementing a successful archiving project in a single, easy to use, logical hierarchy. Apart from the standard SAP transactions, the Workbench also includes access to the suite of Proceeds own tools and reports that will streamline your project. Click Here to learn more

Opentext’s VIM (Vendor Invoice Management) system automates and streamlines the Accounts Payable invoice processing in SAP.  Proceed now have two certified VIM consultants, demonstrating Proceeds commitment both to Opentext and SAP and the latest technology on offer.  With several VIM projects now under our belt, and new opportunities on the horizon, VIM (or SIM – SAP Invoice Management as it is also known) is a keen growth area for the SAP user base, and one where Proceed is ideally placed.

If  you’re thinking about implementing a VIM project, please contact us to see how Proceed can help.

Proceed are proud to be members of the Utilities Vendor DataBase (UVDB).  Accereditation of the UVDB demonstrates that a supplier meets the requirements for Health & Safety, the Environment and Quality needed for working in the UK Utility sector.

UVDB members are eligible for pre-selection during the tender process for projects with utility companies.  With clients such as National Grid, EDF, Anglian Water and Severn Trent, UVDB membership confirms Proceeds commitment to the UK Utility industry.

We are delighted to announce our new alliance with Hitach Data Systems for the  HCP (Hitachi Content Platform).  This will enable us to bring to our customers a complete solution for SAP ILM (Information Lifecycle Management). 

HCP is a single storage platform that supports multiple tiers of storage for unstructured content.  With HCP we will enable our customers to securely segregate data and levels of service for different datasets.

Archiving and Compliance:  One of the many benefits of HCP is being able to store and preserve data long term for corporate governance. This platform also enables the movement of static data to an active archive tier, providing a high availability environment with long term file integrity and access along with authentication and retention enforcement.

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Well Known Shoe Manufacturer reduce their SAP Data Base by almost 50%!
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What is involved in a Health Check?

The Health Check is quick, straightforward and non-invasive.
It can be performed remotely by Proceed Archiving Solutions,using non confidential
data supplied by you. To extract the data you simply run two standard SAP
transactions and export the results into a spreadsheet.

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SAP data archiving projects are coming up on the radar. Archiving data can help enhance the performance of databases, applications and free up infrastructure resources for other projects like upgrades to ECC 6.0.
In this podcast, SAP data archiving expert Nick Parkin of Proceed Archiving Solutions answers some of the most frequently asked questions about getting started with an SAP data archiving project. Nick Parkin has been working as an SAP technical consultant since 1996, and for the last five years has focused on database performance and how organizations can improve storage use and performance with data archiving.
Listeners will learn:
• When it’s time to consider data archiving
• What size database warrants an SAP data archiving project
• The pros and cons of buying additional storage to increase performance
• Whether data archiving makes it difficult for users to access data
• How long a project typically takes

LISTEN HERE