Finding 1. Moore's law holds true after 60 years, although the exponential growth posited in 1965 is slowing, but will likely continue interminably. Moore's law's potential cost savings in storage is offset almost proportionately with increases in prices meaning your IT budget has NOT decreased since 1965. S/4HANA set a new standard for processing speed and cost.

2. SAP Data Archiving "Online Residence times", or the minimum amount of time an object must reside in the database before becoming a "candidate" for archiving, have been consistent since the 1990s - until now. Residence times for FI-CO and related finance items were always Current Year plus one (CY+1); with SD and MM and most others usually CY+2. Finding #1 above is driving residence times from CY+1 down to 18 months or less, and CY+2 to 24 months or even lower.

s, archive data was very much off by 3. In the 90s, archive data was very much off-site, slow to access, and almost entirely needed for audit response, if ever. What we see now is that with Finding #2 above, increasingly younger data is being archived sooner driving the concomitant need for high-speed and accurate access to that young, archived data in a wider range of applications. Without such reliable, fast access, business owners are reticent to allow shorter residence times supporting Finding #2 resulting in higher storage costs based on Finding #1.

These three truly novel findings mark a sharp departure from the last 35 years of archiving "common law". Having an Archiving Service Provider on your side who understands these findings, their implications and how to leverage them for maximum return on your S/4HANA investment and your Archiving Solution is crucial to maintaining a cost-effective HANA instance and maximizing the value from your archive data store.

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