Case studies

Nouryon’s success with Proceed Cella for compliance and data access

Post-acquisition of US-based firm CP Kelco’s CMC business, Nouryon Specialty Chemicals faced the challenge of accessing the business’s historical information and data. To manage compliance and provide information for necessary future audits, Nouryon sought the help of Proceed and their decommissioning tool Proceed Cella. Proceed Cella was able to extract 1.6 TB of data in just 12 days, providing Nouryon with a secure and efficient way to archive their historical data.

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S/4HANA archiving and legacy system decommissioning using ILM

Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch Rail) were dealing with increasing capacity usage on their S/4HANA system, as well as the high cost of maintaining their legacy systems. We worked together to develop a strategy that would address this, save on costs, and establish best-practice data management procedures. Using a phased approach, we archived their S/4HANA data and reduced their legacy system maintenance costs by 50% through decommissioning.

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Migrating and integrating all documents from NGN’s legacy storage solution over to the new OpenText environment

Moving to AWS cloud meant NGN needed to decommission their legacy storage solution. Due to statutory legalities, the old data needed to be accessible within their SAP environment. Using OpenText’s Archive Centre, Proceed successfully migrated all documents and created link table entries in AWS SAP. NGN has now completely removed the old data centre, achieving significant reductions in infrastructure spend, and a leaner data environment.

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Preparing and ‘rightsizing’ SAP data ahead of Derbyshire County Council’s S/4HANA migration

For a smoother migration process and to reduce costs, Derbyshire County Council, together with Proceed, created an archiving strategy to ensure the existing data infrastructure was as lean as possible prior to the move and that any future data was set to be automatically archived if required but still assessible.

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Premier Foods’ archiving project in preparation for a migration to AWS cloud servers

Ahead of a migration from on-prem to new AWS cloud servers, Premier Foods needed to streamline their data landscape without losing access to crucial historical data or impacting their end users. To manage database size and future growth, Proceed Group installed OpenText Data Archiving for SAP Solutions and successfully archived 14.7m documents, achieving significant ongoing savings and IT efficiencies.

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Gloucestershire County Council reduced migration costs by Rightsizing and Archiving Data

With SAP ECC being replaced by S/4HANA by 2027, organisations like Gloucestershire County Council, are making early strides to prepare for the move, and reviewing the data that sits within their systems to ensure a most efficient transition that is both cost- effective and space efficient. Learn how, with the help of Proceed Group, they successfully reduced their data volume by 64%.

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Sunflag Steel’s archiving project to manage the cost effectiveness of its sprawling database landscape

Working with another vendor, the company hit some roadblocks and the archiving project was shelved mid project. This left the business with a number of issues, including some documents that were supposed to be archived, that were still not. Learn how, with Proceed Group, Sunflag steel successfully reduced their data volume by 26%.

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Maple Leaf Foods made their transition to SAP S/4HANA with an archiving approach

Maple Leaf Foods were faced with a number of challenges moving from their SAP ECC system to SAP S/4HANA. Learn how Proceed helped rightsize their data allowing for the successful removal of approximately 4.5TB of data, which ensured a much more efficient transition to the new system.

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Croda International reduced migration costs by Rightsizing and Archiving Data

In conjunction with SAP, Proceed Group worked with Croda international to help reduce the size of their Oracle database to enable a migration to Business Suite on HANA. This project included archiving using SAP ILM as well as legacy Content Server decommissioning using SAP IQ. Learn how we managed to reduce their database size by 2.9TB.

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