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.
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:
“You were a wonderful vendor to work with. The way you work as a team should be an example for all the other teams on the project. You have gone above and beyond to ensure the project was a success!”
Prep for S/4HANA by getting your SAP Document and Data Archive HANA ready
SolutionXchg has serviced SAP customers’ Data Archiving and Document Imaging needs for the last 10 years. Our extended team has a joint experience of servicing more than 200 customers all over the United States and Canada.
Experts in all things SAP Archiving for S/4HANA, we have you covered from archiving infrastructure, to SAP customizing, to business process improvements, and more. Read our case study on a global manufacturing client.
We have put together a series of mini webinars to demonstrate, how we can assist you in your journey to S/4HANA. Each session will only take 20-30 minutes and highlight a transition-specific topic:
S/4HANA Retention Management and Compliant Storage Management
Personalized Service – 20+ Years in the Industry – Highest Satisfaction Rating
S/4HANA Retention Management and Compliant Storage Management
iTernity iCAS is a software defined archive storage solution that integrates with most of the common SAP archiving platforms (OpenText, KGS ContentServer, FileNet P8, SAP ContentServer (FS), PBS ContentLink, Saperion, etc.) The days of closed systems for compliant archiving are over. Learn how you can protect your data at the highest levels with iCAS while taking advantage of cost savings opportunities.
SAP Archive System Migration and Consolidation in Prep for S/4HANA
The transition to S/4HANA marks a major landscape transformation. Many companies today see this as an opportunity to optimize the IT landscape by merging and consolidation content storage. At SolutionXchg, we believe these consolidations and migrations shouldn’t be lengthy and complex projects. Or filled with so many business risks. For that reason we have worked hard to create a custom fit solution approach. It is the lowest risk, highest data availability solution for migrating/consolidating SAP archives on the market today.
Preparing for an S/4HANA Migration Utilizing SAP Data Archiving
Is your organization planning on moving to SAP® Business Suite on SAP HANA or to SAP S/4HANA?
If the answer is yes, then you need to strongly consider implementing an SAP Data Archiving Strategy to reduce the total cost of ownership for these new in-memory systems. Additional benefits include: decreased downtime during migration, and minimized risk due to compliance with retention requirements. This session will cover the necessary steps of implementing an effective data archiving strategy to greatly reduce your overall database size utilizing a proven methodology.
SAP ArchiveLink™ in the S/4HANA® World
SAP ArchiveLink for attaching documents is not going away with S/4HANA. Your investment in your DMS/ECM systems is not at risk. Learn how you can leverage those platforms even further. We will explore:
Potential S/4HANA license cost savings by archiving documents that have been stored in the SAP office table
Uncommon document management scenarios that can be easily customized to provide value for your business
Content Server Selection in an S/4HANA Environment – Cloud or On-Premise
Selecting an effective SAP® content server solution in an SAP ECC or S/4HANA environment is no small feat. Solutions range from adapted ECM solutions, servicing every aspect of the enterprise, to point solutions just doing the job and doing it really well in an S/4HANA landscape. We discuss the Ins and Outs of the solutions, the selection process, the In-The-Cloud or On-Premise questions as well as service and migration aspects.
S/4HANA ECC Tax/Audit Extraction and Reporting — Strategies and Options
Tax audits can cause unnecessary headaches. This session will highlight the strategies, share the tactics and walk you through the options to ease the pain of extracting data from SAP ECC or S/4HANA. Your take-aways will be how you can respond quickly and with little effort to external and internal audit requests.
S/4HANA Archive Access from QA/Production Copies w/o Replication
A new tool for a long lasting problem – the SolutionXchg ACC allows secure access to original PDFs and other documents from your production-copy SAP QA system in an SAP ECC or S/4HANA environment. The ACC brokers requests to PROD AND QA repositories, giving testers transparent access to multiple content repositories without violating SAP security. Capable of all SAP ArchiveLink commands, the ACC greatly simplifies testing of document-centric test scenarios for all SAP modules.
Modernize your SAP Archive – Compliant Storage for SAP — Full Service Implementations
Thank you for meeting with us at SAPPHIRE 2019 in Orlando! We took home a lot of new ideas and thoughts and loved all the positive interaction with everyone! SAPPHIRE – as always – is a great forum to meet and collaborate with many different people. Please stay in touch and contact us on any new project we can help you with. Your Solution Exchange Service Team.
Go Fresh – Go Local! — Customized Archiving Services for You
Centrally located near SAP’s headquarters outside Philadelphia, SolutionXchg has serviced SAP customers’ Data Archiving and Document Imaging needs for over 9 years. Our wider team has a joint experience of servicing more than 200 customers all over the United States.
Experts in all things SAP Archiving, we have you covered from archiving infrastructure, to SAP customizing, to business process improvements. To show you what we can do for you, we put together a series of mini webinars that only take 20-30 minutes of your time and highlight a specific topic each:
Personalized Service – 20+ Years in the Industry – Highest Satisfaction Rating
SAP Archive System Migrations and Consolidations
Many companies today see the need for data splits or consolidation as part of mergers or acquisitions or just to optimize their IT landscape. At SolutionXchg, we believe migrating archival records shouldn’t be a lengthy and complex project. Or filled with so many business risks. For that reason we have worked hard to create a custom fit solution approach. It is the lowest risk, highest data availability solution for migrating SAP archives on the market today.
Preparing for an SAP HANA Migration Utilizing SAP Data Archiving
Is your organization planning on moving to SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA or to SAP S/4HANA? If the answer is yes, then you need to strongly consider implementing an SAP Data Archiving Strategy to reduce the total cost of ownership for these new in-memory systems. Additional benefits include: decreased downtime during migration, and minimized risk due to compliance with retention requirements. This session will cover the necessary steps of implementing an effective data archiving strategy to greatly reduce your overall database size utilizing a proven methodology.
Content Server Selection – In-The-Cloud or On-Premise?
Selecting an effective SAP Content Server solution is no small feat. Solutions range from adapted ECM solutions, servicing every aspect of the enterprise while also managing your SAP data to price effective point solutions that do only one thing well, but really well and that is SAP Archiving and Storage. We discuss the Ins and Outs of the solution, the selection process, the In-The-Cloud or On-Premise questions as well as service and migration aspects.
ECC Tax/Audit Extraction and Reporting — Strategies, Tactics and Options
Tax audits and year-end close activities can cause unnecessary headaches. This session will highlight the strategies, share the tactics and walk you through the options to ease the pain of extracting data from SAP ECC. Your take-aways will be how you can respond quickly and with little effort to external and internal audit requests.
Archive Access from QA/Production Copies w/o Replication
A new tool for a long lasting problem – the SolutionXchg ACC allows secure access to original PDFs and other documents from your production-copy SAP QA system. The ACC brokers requests to PROD AND QA repositories, giving testers transparent access to multiple content repositories without violating SAP security. Capable of all SAP ArchiveLink commands, the ACC greatly simplifies testing of document-centric test scenarios for all SAP modules.
Effective Standardized SAP Document Management
SAP ArchiveLink is a “treasure chest” of functions and features to link content from hardcopies with the electronic data of transactions and master data in SAP. ArchiveLink document management can help you recapture office space by getting rid of filing cabinets and storing documents electronically and accessible from within SAP. We will share common and not-so common but effective business use cases with you.
Retention Management and Compliant Storage Management
iTernity iCAS is a software defined archive storage solution that integrates with most of the common SAP archiving platforms (OpenText, KGS ContentServer, FileNet P8, SAP ContentServer (FS), PBS ContentLink, Saperion, etc.) The days of closed systems for compliant archiving are over. Learn how you can protect your data at the highest levels with iCAS while taking advantage of cost savings opportunities.
Modernize your SAP Archive – Compliant Storage for SAP — Full Service Implementations
We are excited to be part of the HPE/iTernity team, representing iTernity at the HPE Storage Kick-Off 2019 in Kissimmee, Florida. It is so nice to escape the bitter cold in the North-East for a few days and meet up with all the great team members from HPE and our other partners. HPE Storage Kick-Off 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.
SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference are around the corner! While solutionXchg will not have a booth at the show this year, the event still presents a great opportunity to meet casually during one of the breaks, at one of our partner booth locations, or for a cup of coffee between sessions on the show floor.
We have added a number of new and powerful solution packages to our solutionXchg data and content management software portfolio. We’d love to present to you some of the products and packages for SAP centric document imaging, SAP Data Archiving for SAP ERP & BW, and Business Efficiency Solutions for SAP FI, MM, SD and HR – as made available by our preferred solution vendors.
Please send me an email to schedule a meeting for an ad-hoc demonstration or to discuss your requirements. You can also reach my business partner Kristin Gerling or me via our mobile phones: (484) 343-5787 for Kristin Gerling, (484) 716-1210 for Jochen Hager.
SolutionXchg managed the archive replacement project, helping the company cut archival costs by $700K over a five-year span. When the manufacturer decided to split into two companies along its product lines in 2016, they again brought in SolutionXchg. The result: additional benefits in cost and time savings, and the companies are positioned for seamless transitions to future archive storage technologies:
“We made our migration deadline, but best of all we delivered a new archival landscape with an efficient architecture that was greatly simplified from the previous version.”
Multinational Consumer Goods Company Reduces Maintenance Costs by More Than 75% with SAP-Certified Archival Solution
A globally recognized consumer goods company realized that if it could take the risk out of migrating to a new archival system, it could accrue hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in maintenance fee savings, while gaining functionality. In this white paper, learn how the company found an extremely low-risk solution and, following a remarkably smooth and successful migration, now archives financial information at a fraction of the cost associated with its legacy system. In fact, the first-year maintenance fee savings alone paid for the investment. Learn about the company’s experience, and how you can achieve:
Significant savings in maintenance costs
Full compliance documentation built into the process
Worry-free document and data migration
Simplified architecture and reduced TCO
5-minute production cutover with no performance impact on your SAP system during migration
A migration process that is fully transparent to end users
Meet up with the experts from SolutionXchg and iTernity at HPE Discover in Las Vegas! iTernity has joined the HPE Complete program in January and is celebrating its acceptation into this select program! The HPE Complete program offers a one-stop shop for purchasing best-in-class products that complement the HPE storage and server solutions.
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At SolutionXchg, we believe migrating archival records shouldn’t be so complicated. Or filled with so many business risks. Unlike traditional migration solutions, KGS Migration4-ArchiveLink enables businesses to immediately transition to a new target archive, with data migration continuing in the background via a proxy server-based process that is transparent to end users. Normal work routines continue as Migration4ArchiveLink ensures data migrations are carried out safely and securely, without performance impacts on SAP production servers or business operations. It is the lowest risk, highest data availability solution for migrating SAP archives on the market today.
