Content Collector for SAP Applications

Get more from SAP with value-based archiving

IBM® Content Collector for SAP Applications provides flexible archiving, content management and governance for SAP® data and related content. It extends IBM's value-based archiving capabilities across SAP applications and archive stores, including IBM enterprise content management (ECM) repositories and Tivoli® Storage Manager. IBM Content Collector for SAP Applications helps reduce total cost of ownership by avoiding costs associated with limited, siloed SAP offerings and deploying full SAP business solutions to offer expansive capabilities in one product.

Content Collector for SAP Applications

  • Archives SAP data and documents to help reduce storage and infrastructure costs and improve SAP user productivity and process efficiency.
  • Enriches SAP content by linking valuable ECM-stored documents such as invoices, emails and contracts to SAP transactions.
  • Enables expansive ECM SAP business capabilities and provides SAP-specific integration with products such as IBM Datacap Taskmaster Capture to take advantage of your existing archiving investments.
  • Supports today’s and tomorrow’s cloud archiving environments by offering system security and performance monitoring enhancements as well as system performance guidelines.
  • Expands IBM’s value-based archiving portfolio through integration with IBM Content Collector products for email, files, Microsoft® SharePoint® and IBM Connections as well as other IBM ECM products.

Archives SAP data and documents

  • Allows you to collect, archive and manage SAP-generated data and documents in an integrated, security-rich repository using your existing or future ECM platform.
  • Supports traditional SAP ArchiveLink™ and SAP Content Server as well as newer SAP NetWeaver® Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) protocols to meet a range of needs.
  • Provides SAP NetWeaver ILM support to enable SAP-directed retention periods on archived data with advanced SAP instance decommissioning.
  • Offers archiving methods to help reduce costs and improve your ability to meet compliance mandates while enhancing SAP system performance and user efficiency.

Enriches SAP content

  • Links ECM-stored documents, such as sales orders and contracts, to SAP transactions, providing a full record when required.
  • Displays SAP data and related content side by side on screen.
  • Supports IBM ECM repositories including Content Manager, Content Manager OnDemand, FileNet® Content Manager (P8) and FileNet Image Services, as well as Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). This enables you to take advantage of built-in hierarchical storage management and use existing infrastructures.
  • Takes advantage of many IBM ECM products, including Content Analytics and Global Retention Policy Management, as well as SAP-specific Optim™ process offerings. This enables greater returns from expanded IBM ECM environments and deeper SAP implementations.
  • Offers rich, content-centric IBM business process management (BPM) and advanced case management components that can be linked with SAP workflows to enable and manage processes beyond SAP boundaries.

Enables expansive ECM SAP business capabilities and provides SAP-specific integration

  • Integrates with IBM Datacap Taskmaster Capture to convert, understand, tag and direct various types of incoming documents to the proper systems and people, including SAP applications and users.
  • Provides a feature-rich capture and archiving infrastructure to deliver expansive SAP solutions from IBM and from xft, a SAP Business Partner. These offerings support areas such as accounts payable, human resources management and contract management.
  • Handles invoice management, personnel file and contract management applications through Content Collector integration with Datacap Taskmaster Capture and SAP-certified offerings from xft.
  • Offers an integrated accounts payable system that works with Datacap Taskmaster Capture, developed for worldwide use by IBM's Global Business Services ECM Services Group.

Supports today's and tomorrow's cloud archiving environments

  • Provides system security enhancements and monitoring tools, along with system performance and high availability guidelines to enable IBM and IBM-sanctioned third-party Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud deployments.
  • Facilitates distributed pay-per-click cloud environments.
  • Offers managed services deployments using SAP, database systems and other software licenses you already own.

Expands IBM's value-based archiving portfolio

  • Extends IBM's technology in value-based archiving techniques to SAP. Addresses symptoms of large databases and information volume as well as root causes associated with keeping too much information indefinitely, which increases cost and risk.
  • Uses IBM-pioneered assessment and progression techniques to determine the value of information and how long to retain it.
  • Implements value-based archiving for SAP content, using interlinked products in the IBM Content Collector family to "defensibly delete" information when its value expires. This helps reduce storage, operating costs and potential legal exposure.
  • Improves storage management by identifying the business value of content, adapting it for storage tiering and eliminating duplication.
  • Archives and decommissions most non-SAP enterprise applications, enabling SAP to consolidate your legacy customer relationship management, human resources management or other systems to derive even more value from your SAP investment.
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Operating environment

Hardware requirements
The exact configuration you need to support your environment with satisfactory response time will vary depending on the size of the objects you are working with and other factors. Individual display response times vary depending on workstation speed, memory, size of objects, and network and server workload. Minimum recommended configurations listed below need to be evaluated and adjusted according to your unique requirements. Disk space recommendations below are for IBM Content Collector for SAP Applications installation and working space only. The actual hard disk capacity required varies, depending on your installation.

For UNIX (IBM AIX and Sun Solaris)

  • 1 GB RAM
  • 300 MB hard disk space for installation
  • Runtime hard disk space depends on size of files to archive, trace, and log

For Linux

  • 1 GB RAM
  • 300 MB hard disk space for installation
  • Runtime hard disk space depends on size of files to archive, trace, and log

For Windows

  • PC (1.8 GHz Pentium processor or equivalent, or higher)
  • 1 GB RAM
  • 300 MB hard disk space for installation
  • Runtime hard disk space depends on size of files to archive, trace, and log

Software requirements
Supported operating systems for IBM Content Collector for SAP Applications server (64 bit):

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
  • IBM AIX V6.1 and AIX V7.1
  • Oracle Sun Solaris 10 and 11 (SPARC only)
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 and 11
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.0 and 6.0

Content management servers

For enterprise content management (ECM) archiving or ECM content enabling (for example, anything except using IBM Content Collector for SAP Applications with Tivoli Storage Manager only), one of the following content management servers is required as an ECM repository:

  • IBM Content Manager Enterprise Edition V8.4.x
  • IBM Content Manager OnDemand for Multiplatforms V8.4.1, V8.5 and V9.0
  • IBM FileNet Content Manager V4.x, V5.x (as a native repository or a federation server to IBM FileNet Image Services V4.1.2, via Content Federated Services - Image Services (CFS-IS))

To meet the IBM Content Collector ECM repository licensing requirements, a minimum of five Authorized User licenses are required for each specific ECM repository deployed. However, this minimum can be provided by any combination of IBM Content Collector for SAP Applications, IBM Content Collector for Email, IBM Content Collector for File Systems, or IBM Content Collector for Microsoft SharePoint implementations.

Supported operating systems for IBM Content Collector for SAP Applications Client (32 bit):

  • Microsoft Windows Vista (Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate Editions)
  • Microsoft Windows 7 (Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate Editions)
  • Microsoft Windows XP (Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate Editions)

Archive client software

  • IBM Content Manager Enterprise Edition client V8.4
  • IBM Content Manager OnDemand for Multiplatforms V8.5
  • IBM Tivoli Storage Manager V5.5, V6.x
  • IBM FileNet Workplace V4.x
  • IBM FileNet Workplace XT V1.1.4, V1.1.5
  • IBM WEBi V1.0.4, V1.0.5

Archive server software

  • IBM Content Manager Enterprise Edition V8.4.x
  • IBM Content Manager for z/OS V8.4.x
  • IBM Content Manager OnDemand for Multiplatforms V8.4.1, V8.5, V9.0
  • IBM Content Manager OnDemand for z/OS V8.4
  • IBM FileNet Content Manager V4.x, V5.x
  • IBM FileNet Image Services V4.1.2
  • (via FileNet Content Manager Content Federation Services for Image Services)
  • IBM Tivoli Storage Manager V5.5
  • IBM Tivoli Storage Manager V6.x

Supported SAP systems

  • SAP ECC 5.0
  • SAP ECC 6.0

Supported Datacap releases (for use of the csclient DLL)

  • IBM Datacap Taskmaster V8.0, V8.1

IBM Content Collector for SAP Applications supports the widest choice of archive repositories on the market today, commonly using your existing software and hardware platforms. You can select from:

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