1. Owens Corning: Increasing Performance with SAP® Enterprise Support​ Value Maps for Data Volume Management
Company Owens Corning​ Headquarters ​Toledo, Ohio Industry Mill products – building materials​ Products and Services ​Manufactures and markets insulation, roofing, and fiberglass composites Employees ​16,000 in 25 countries Revenue ​US$5.7 billion (2016) Web Site Partner Tata Consultancy Services
Objectives
Initiate an archiving program for the SAP® ERP application
Mitigate risk and manage cost of IT infrastructure
Establish a framework for archiving
Why SAP
SAP Enterprise Support value maps including multiple-day expert workshops on data volume management
Expert advice on SAP Enterprise Support services as well as the tools that fit Owens Corning's goals, projects, and challenges
Resolution
Implemented the first phase of a data volume management program.
Ran a set of analysis jobs and reviewed the results of the top 10 objects to monitor for data volume management
Executed archive actions in the SAP ERP application
Benefits
Significant reduction in planning efforts thanks to the use of value maps
Established a data volume management framework
Slower growth of data volume through a sustainable data volume management and archiving strategy
Insight on data avoidance, archiving, and deletion by objects
30% ​Reduction in time to implement the initial archiving process Increased ​System performance Lower Total cost of ownership
​"The experts on data volume management from SAP Enterprise Support helped us choose five 'quick win' objects to start our archiving strategy. With the know-how we gained, we felt confident to choose the next wave of functional object candidates." ​Greg Turco, Enterprise Architect, Owens Corning
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