White Paper
Streamlining SAP/HANA Migration Through Intelligent Content Archiving

Executive Summary.

As the 2027 SAP ECC support deadline approaches, enterprises face a critical challenge: modernizing their SAP landscape while controlling costs and maintaining operational continuity. While attention focuses on core functional migration, one of the most significant optimization opportunities lies in comprehensive data archiving strategy.
 

SAP systems accumulate massive data volumes over decades—transactional data, business documents, attachments, print lists, and archived business objects—all-consuming expensive in-memory HANA database storage. The SOFFCONT1 table alone routinely consumes 100-900+ GB, but it’s just one component of database bloat that dramatically increases migration costs and ongoing operational expenses.
 

The Encore + docuflow solution addresses this challenge comprehensively, offering a modern, cloud-native archiving platform that handles all SAP archiving scenarios.
 

This white paper examines the technical and business case for modernizing SAP archiving as an integral component of S/4HANA migration strategy.