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Jochen Hager

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 with TJC at SAPinsider 2024 in Las Vegas in March!

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.

SAPInsider Conference Las Vegas 2024

SAPInsider Conference Las Vegas 2024

Chemical Company – Quote I

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!”

Stefan G., Transformation Manager – Logistics

Application Scenarios

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 (spoofing), 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.

Features

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

Healthcare Packaging Company – Quote II

Healthcare Packaging Company Spin-Off – Quote I

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!”

Amy H., Executive Project Manager – IT Director

Healthcare Packaging Company – Quote I

Healthcare Packaging Company Spin-Off

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

Pool Chemicals Company Spin-Off Quote II

Pool Chemicals Company Spin-Off

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!”

John V., Director Enterprise Applications

Pool Chemicals Company Spin-Off Quote I

Pool Chemicals Company Spin-Off

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!”

Shannon P., Project Manager Divestiture

S/4HANA Event Series

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
Wed., Mar. 6, 2019, 2:00 — 2:30 PM ESTYouTube Replay
SAP Archive System Migration and Consolidation in Prep for S/4HANAWed., Mar. 20, 2019, 2:00 — 2:30 PM ESTYouTube Replay
Preparing for an S/4HANA Migration Utilizing SAP Data Archiving
Wed., Apr. 3, 2019, 2:00 — 2:30 PM ESTYouTube Replay
SAP ArchiveLink™ in the S/4HANA® World
Wed., Apr. 17, 2019, 2:00 — 2:30 PM ESTYouTube Replay
Content Server Selection in an S/4HANA Environment – Cloud or On-Premise
Wed., May 1, 2019, 2:00 — 2:30 PM ESTYouTube Replay
S/4HANA ECC Tax/Audit Extraction and Reporting — Strategies and Options
Wed., May 15, 2019, 2:00 — 2:30 PM ESTYouTube Replay
S/4HANA Image Archive Access from QA/Production Copies w/o Replication
Wed., June 5, 2019, 2:00 — 2:30 PM ESTYouTube Replay

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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


SolutionXchg at SAPPHIRE 2019

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.SAPPHIRE 2019

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