Jochen C. Hager is a results-oriented and proven professional over 30 years of consulting and management expertise in the SAP Eco space. He is an expert in translating business requirements into solution proposals, analyzing existing operations and implementing strategies, processes and technologies to improve organizational performance. He has extensive experience in SAP, ECM (Enterprise Content Management), and storage technology to help companies improve operating efficiency, reduce cost and increase revenue. He personally designed the SAP ArchiveLink interface together with SAP engineers almost 20 years ago. Over the last 15 years, he and his team have helped more than 200 large ERP / SAP customers to implement an Imaging and WF solution, gaining significant business process improvements. Jochen held positions in Consulting, Consulting Management, Business Development, and Executive Management with Open Text / IXOS, Mobius Management Systems, 170 Systems, and other organizations.
SolutionXchg assisted a prominent consumer goods company in spinning off a business unit and dividing their Content Repository solution. To facilitate secure testing and temporary access to legacy documents from the joint company during the spin-off process, they utilized the SolutionXchg ACC proxy. With the help of the ACC, testing was able to begin early in the process with great benefit to the project. The use of the ACC pulled the project back from being on the critical path and back on track in time before go-live.
Following the successful completion of the split, the Project Team Lead for Content Service expressed his sincere gratitude to our team:
“Your help has been tremendous! We would not be where we are today without your help and expertise. Thank you very much! […] Credit is due where credit is due. You have our highest gratitude for all the excellent work you have done for us!”
Naveen P., Project Lead Content Management, Transitioning Project
We are excited to be part of the TJC team, representing TJC at the SAPinsider Show in Las Vegas! We are really looking forward to the show, meeting up with all the great team members from TJC and our other partners. The SAPinsider show is an exciting event to present the TJC decommissioning products, service offerings and great solutions for our clients! We cannot wait to tell you more when we are back.
SolutionXchg and the TJC Americas teams are joining forces at the ASUG TechConnect event in Palm Beach in November 2024! We are looking forward to reconnecting with our clients and customers as well as forging many new partnerships and friendships. Palm Beach will be an exciting setting. We hope to see you there as well!
We are excited to be part of the TJC team, representing TJC at the SAPinsider Show in Las Vegas! We are really looking forward to the show, meeting up with all the great team members from TJC and our other partners. The SAPinsider show is an exciting event to start the New Year with new products, service offerings and great solutions for our clients! We cannot wait to tell you more when we are back.
Global Specialty Chemical Business Spin-Off – Quote I
As part of a global divestiture, with over 32 involved countries across five continents, the SolutionXchg team supported a 8 month long effort to separate all business documents of a global specialty chemical business from its parent company. Under strong restrictions regarding possible performance impacts on an ailing Documentum system that suffered almost daily interruptions and with minimal impact on the business operations of the parent company, we separated 12.1 million documents from a parent company archive of 34.5 million. Moving from an on-premise environment to a Cloud environment with limit performance required precise planning and a 24 hour operation to maximize throughput and keep the project on track, having all document migrated in time for a full big-bang go-live.
“Thank you Jochen! What a big effort! You did really great! What a great job from all of you! We are highly satisfied with the Document Migration. And thanks for checking on again. We believe we captured all documents in our migration – no tickets on missing documents, even 6 months later. Thanks again for all your great work!”
There are multiple real live application scenarios that can be supported by the ACC to enhance a given SAP archiving landscape or to facilitate specific transitory functions during a migration process.
Typical application scenarios:
Serving as a proxy during an archive migration by sending r/w calls to the target repository and sending read-only calls the source repository, while actively migrating in the background. This allows switching to the target repository on day one and guaranties a fully user transparent transition.
Supporting partial archive copies during company mergers and splits by functioning as a security gateway, restricting call for copies to selected documents and selected repositories only.
Forwarding (unchanged), securing (HTTPS) and/or signing (SAP SecKey) calls to a new target repository without changing the configuration or coding of the triggering application.
Supporting split storage setups, with a section of the archive in a cloud base reduced access location and another section in a high availability on premise location.
The Archive Content Connector (ACC) is an HTTP Servlet that connects one SAP system to several SAP ArchiveLink content repositories. In a round robin schema, it attempts to handle a call by forwarding to real repositories, possibly manufactured by different vendors, in sequence. The first successful response is passed back to the caller (usually an SAP system).
Additional features include:
Restricting access to listed repositories only
Restricting/allowing read/write/delete access to repositories
Restricting access to only certain document ids (whitelisting)
Obscuring document content while verifying the existence of a document (placeholder display)
Forwarding calls to a specific archive system through URL rewrite (IP address, service name, port number)
Adding HTTPS security to the transmission
Adding/replacing SAP SecKey identification, including link expiration to unsecured calls with custom security certificate
7 months into a 12 months divestiture project, it became clear to the divesture management team, that archived PDF documents, attached to SAP, had to be included in the scope of the SAP system split efforts. SolutionXchg was contacted by KGS and implementation Partner enowa and tasks to jump onto the running project train steaming at full speed towards a November 1st delivery date, with steep penalties attached to any delays. SolutionXchg developed a phased approach based on a primary migration and several delta migrations, closely following the SAP split cycles 2, 3, and 4. Always on standby and working through nights and on weekends, the SolXchg team managed to deliver the data in time, on budget, and with great accuracy.
“Thank you Jochen, and if I do not speak with you again, now that the project comes to an end, I wanted to say, you have been a wonderful partner to work with! You matched with the team very well! I hope our partner enowa can get you into additional opportunities. Thanks again for all your great work!”
7 months into a 12 months divestiture project, it became clear to the divesture management team, that archived PDF documents, attached to SAP, had to be included in the scope of the SAP system split efforts. SolutionXchg was contacted by KGS and implementation Partner enowa and tasks to jump onto the running project train steaming at full speed towards a November 1st delivery date, with steep penalties attached to any delays. SolutionXchg developed a phased approach based on a primary migration and several delta migrations, closely following the SAP split cycles 2, 3, and 4. Always on standby and working through nights and on weekends, the SolXchg team managed to deliver the data in time, on budget, and with great accuracy.
“I was chatting with [our mother company’s] IT Global head today and I expressed how impressed I was with the cost of the KGS solutions and your ability to implement it flawlessly. He asked that I share your contact information.”
Michael B., Executive Adviser – Management Consultant
Coming in at the eleventh hour, 2 month before the planned completion date of the divestiture, SolutionXchg set up a successful PoC within just two weeks and started the migration process. Working long hours in a continuous 24-hour operation, 7.35 million documents were migrated on time and on budget, utilizing the SolutionXchg ACC Whitelisting Tool to protect the source archive and the KGS Proxy to allow immediate access to all documents even while the migration was in process:
“I wanted to let you know, that we are highly satisfied with your work and with the project over all: we never worried about you, we never checked on you, you completed your job, you completed it on time, way ahead of schedule. You can have a reference any time from us!”
