1. IBM ILM solutions for SAP improve database operations and protect banking data
for the long term
IBM and SAP archiving and data
management solutions for Banking
Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
is important for Global Banking
Companies using policies, processes,
practices, and tools to cost-effectively
align the business value of information
with their SAP IT infrastructure. The
IBM System Storage Archive solution
for SAP aligns banking SAP information
with business processes through man-
agement of retention policies and serv-
ice levels to help ensure banking data is
available, accessible, compliant and
ILM solutions for SAP enable financial protected. This solution ensures that
Highlights institutions to advance from individual, vital banking data is retained for future
siloed risk and compliance projects reference and addresses some of
■ For risk
toward an enterprise-wide risk manage- today’s biggest implementation chal-
Implement operational risk man-
ment strategy: The IBM® System lenges for regulatory compliance with
agement controls to help meet
Storage™ Archive solution for SAP® secure access to reliable risk, financial
Sarbanes-Oxley needs and align
aligns your SAP information with busi- and customer data.
business performance manage-
ness processes through management
ment with operational resilience
of retention policies to help ensure your Data retention and management are
assessments and strategy.
data is available, accessible, compliant essential functions of ILM. This is
and protected. important to banking companies as
■ For compliance
reporting capabilities are driven by
Help automate compliance and
increased scrutiny of financial reporting
gain a view of market, operational
by regulators, increased transparency
and credit risk across your entire
company.

2. of financial data required by company
executives, increased needs for an
enterprise-wide view of financial data to
assess risk, and dynamic access to
financial data demanded by CEOs and
CFOs.
Reliable data is critical to meeting bank-
ing regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley,
Solvency II, International Financial
Reporting Standards (IFRS) and
International Accounting Standards
(IAS). For example, compliance with
Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 requires
a fine-grained reporting capability,
down to the transaction level of every
internal business process across the
organization.
Effective implementation of these ILM
functions helps global banking compa-
nies improve SAP IT production per-
formance, improve TCO, improve legal
compliance and mitigate your IT risks.
SAP has recognized these needs by
creating their new product “ILM from IBM archiving solution stack for SAP
SAP” as part of the SAP NetWeaver
stack. With ILM from SAP, data reten- to a newly created data object. The SAP’s Information Retention Manager
tion management starts at the moment assigned management class applies (IRM), a key component of ILM from
a data management class is assigned SAP policy information, like business SAP, is the central tool for setting up
and regulatory rules, to the data object and managing retention policies and
throughout its lifecycle, from creation uses the SAP WebDAV Storage
through expiration to deletion. Interface as an open-standard interface

3. based on HTML. The WebDAV IBM System Storage DR550 DR550 is designed to provide:
(Web-based Distributed Authoring and The IBM System Storage DR550
Versioning) interface allows banking uniquely stores banking data as pro- ● Lower TCO with flexible storage
clients to perform remote Web content tected objects into the data manage- tiering. It is costly to keep all
authoring operations such as creating a ment layer using DR550 IBM System archived banking data in more expen-
framework and set of retention rules, Storage Archive Manager software. The sive nearline or production storage
along with enforcing those rules for IBM solution helps pay for itself quickly throughout its retention period.
both structured and unstructured SAP during long archiving periods, as bank- DR550 offers the capability to sup-
data. ing data that usually outlives disk or port and manage cost-effective tiers
optical media can use IBM longer- of storage (disk, tape and optical).
Maximizing and sustaining ILM effi- lasting tape storage capabilities. ● Migration. DR550 is designed to
ciency involves leveraging storage tiers support data migration capabilities to
to support information classes and The IBM System Storage DR550 is an move data from disk to tape and
service levels. The IBM Archiving award-winning, industry-proven infor- between infrastructure upgrades
Solution for SAP includes the award- mation retention solution. It is designed without disruption while maintaining
winning IBM System Storage DR550, to help global banking companies meet data immutability. Migrations can be
together with IBM CommonStore the growing challenge of managing and automated or scheduled for off hours
for SAP, and enables alignment of SAP protecting business banking information and can be performed by the cus-
information business value with the for long periods while providing opera- tomer or as a service.
most appropriate and cost-effective IT tional efficiency. DR550 can scale up to
infrastructure. 224 TB of physical disk storage and to
petabytes with attached tape systems.

4. ● Non-erasable, non-rewriteable ● Interoperability. In addition to periods and legal holds to be placed on
archival storage. DR550 offers IBM CommonStore, IBM Content SAP transaction data archived directly
non-rewritable, non-erasable storage Manager, IBM FileNet® Image to the IBM DR550 via its System
controls to prevent deletion or alter- Services, IBM Optim™ (formerly Storage Archive Manager interface. This
ation of data stored on the system Princeton Softech) and other new ILM retention management capa-
until deletion is permitted by retention IBM software offerings, over bility also provides critical support for
policy. 30 third-party vendors (ISV) are eDiscovery operations in the event of a
● Security and protection through certified users of the IBM DR550 for legal challenge.
data encryption and data shred- archiving and data retention:
ding options. DR550 provides data http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/ Beyond basic data archiving,
encryption options (128 bit AES or storage/disk/dr/interop.html CommonStore for SAP software pro-
56 bit DES technology) to help global vides document management capabili-
banking companies protect their data IBM CommonStore for SAP (CSSAP) ties, so banking companies can
when transmitted over the network or A new version of the IBM SAP manage a wide range of SAP-related
saved to disk or tape. Data is archiving solution component, information. By linking archived docu-
encrypted prior to transmission and IBM CommonStore for SAP, ments to SAP business objects,
remains encrypted in the DR550, Version 8.4, delivers archiving that goes CommonStore for SAP software is
including backup copies. beyond simply trimming the size of SAP designed to make business
After the data has expired according databases. Building on SAP’s previous documents—from purchase orders to
to defined corporate or regulatory ArchiveLink API functionality associated banking policies—available to author-
policy, the deleted data can be with SAP’s R/3 releases, and leveraging ized users anywhere on the network.
destroyed via an optional shredding the new SAP WebDAV Storage So multiple users can have secure,
feature. Shredding is designed to Interface, CSSAP v8.4 enables SAP- parallel access to documents, and
explicitly overwrite the deleted data to directed and storage-enforced retention authorized users can have access to
make it impossible to discover or documents without the delay caused by
reconstruct that data later. paper-based archive inquiries.

5. IBM CommonStore for SAP delivers: ● External access to SAP docu- increases because data accessed infre-
ments. The CSSAP Index Transfer quently is effectively archived. Banking
● Integration. IBM fully supports feature enables users to find and information is securely protected and
SAP’s new “ILM from SAP” retrieve archived SAP system docu- accessible when needed, independent
(BC-ILM 2.0) specification; made ments without an SAP GUI client. of application, helping you to comply
possible by IBM’s support for SAP’s ● Bulk archiving for printed docu- with company and regulatory policies
WebDAV Storage Interface. ments. IBM CommonStore can and rules while enabling banking busi-
These features enable banking busi- archive electronic copies of banking nesses to respond quickly to the
nesses to place SAP-directed, printouts and link the archived docu- demands of their employees, cus-
IBM-orchestrated retention periods ments to the corresponding SAP tomers, partners and suppliers.
and legal holds on archived SAP business objects. This linkage
transaction data, and better help ensures that banking documents are Additionally, the IBM archiving solution
them meet their compliance needs. archived in the same format as origi- for SAP can be easily extended for
● Fully integrated with IBM Content nally sent, and that banking compa- e-mail archiving. IBM CommonStore
Manager suite (optional). Enables nies can still access them from SAP. and IBM DR550 support Lotus®
banking businesses to manage SAP Domino® as well as Microsoft®
content along with other content By integrating SAP and non-SAP busi- Exchange. For more information on the
types, presenting all related informa- ness content into a single archive, the IBM archiving solution for e-mail please
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