Enterprise organizations invest heavily in SAP technologies to modernize their operations, improve business processes, manage critical information, and build a foundation for innovation. However, realizing the full value of those investments requires more than implementing new software.
Many SAP customers face challenges that can slow transformation initiatives, increase operating costs, and limit their ability to adopt new technologies. Large databases make migrations more expensive, legacy systems consume valuable IT resources, inconsistent master data undermines analytics, and fragmented document management processes create inefficiencies across the businessThese challenges represent an opportunity for SAP and its partner ecosystem to work together to deliver more comprehensive solutions.
Auritas helps SAP customers address these challenges through specialized consulting services, implementation expertise, and proprietary products designed to complement and extend SAP technologies. With experience supporting complex enterprise environments, Auritas works across four core areas: Data Volume Management, Data Quality Enablement, Document Management, and Finance Optimization.
By collaborating with Auritas, SAP account teams, solution specialists, and customer success organizations can connect customers with expertise that addresses immediate operational challenges while supporting broader strategic initiatives such as SAP S/4HANA transformation, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) adoption, SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC), and business process automation.
The opportunity is not simply to introduce additional services. It is to help customers overcome barriers to transformation, maximize the value of existing SAP investments, and identify new opportunities for innovation.
1. Optimizing SAP Environments Through Data Archiving and Data Volume Management
As enterprise organizations generate and retain increasing volumes of transactional and business data, managing database growth has become a critical part of maintaining efficient SAP environments.
Large SAP databases can lead to higher infrastructure and storage costs, increased system maintenance requirements, longer processing times, and reduced overall system performance. Without a structured approach to data volume management, organizations may continue accumulating historical information that is no longer required for daily business operations.
SAP data archiving provides a way to address these challenges by moving inactive business and transactional data out of the live database while preserving access to information required for business, legal, and compliance purposes. However, effective data archiving is not a one-time activity. As organizations continuously generate new data, they need processes and technologies that support ongoing archiving, retention management, and database optimization.
This creates an opportunity for SAP and Auritas to work together to help customers establish sustainable data volume management programs that improve system efficiency, control database growth, and reduce long-term operating costs.
How SAP and Auritas Can Work Together
Auritas provides end-to-end Data Volume Management services, helping customers assess their SAP environments, identify archiving opportunities, implement solutions, and establish processes for ongoing database optimization.
Its capabilities include:
- SAP Data Archiving: Move inactive transactional and business data out of live SAP databases while maintaining access to historical information.
- Data Volume Assessments: Analyze database size, growth patterns, and data distribution to identify opportunities for reduction and optimization.
- SAP Information Lifecycle Management (ILM): Implement retention management processes, policies, and solutions to support regulatory and business requirements.
- HANA Memory Optimization: Optimize data storage and memory utilization to improve SAP HANA efficiency and reduce infrastructure requirements.
- Storage Tiering: Evaluate and implement appropriate storage strategies, including SAP HANA Native Storage Extension (NSE), based on data accessibility and cost requirements.
Auritas also offers Data ASSIST, a proprietary product designed to automate and simplify the SAP data archiving process. Data ASSIST supports database volume analysis, archiving recommendations, job scheduling, monitoring, and automation. By reducing the manual effort involved in managing archiving activities, organizations can establish more consistent and scalable data volume management processes.
Together, SAP and Auritas can help customers move from reactive database cleanup initiatives to proactive, automated data management programs.
Supporting SAP S/4HANA and Cloud Transformation
While data archiving delivers ongoing operational value, it also plays an important role in SAP modernization initiatives. Organizations preparing to migrate to SAP S/4HANA or transition to cloud-based environments often need to evaluate how much historical information should remain in their active systems.
By reducing unnecessary data volumes before migration, customers can potentially lower infrastructure requirements, simplify migration planning, and avoid carrying excessive historical data into their new environments. This makes data archiving a valuable component of both existing SAP system optimization and future transformation strategies.
Customer Value and Proven Results
Auritas has delivered measurable results through data archiving and volume optimization initiatives:
- Waters: Achieved a 55% database reduction across SAP environments, with more than $5 million in reported savings.
- Grainger: Reduced its database footprint by approximately 50% and significantly slowed future data growth.
- TTI: Achieved a 60% database reduction, improved performance by 19%, and realized a 10-month payback.
These examples demonstrate how a structured data archiving strategy can deliver measurable financial and operational benefits.
The opportunity for SAP: SAP account executives, BTP specialists, enterprise architects, and customer success teams can introduce Auritas when customers experience excessive database growth, rising infrastructure costs, performance challenges, or manual archiving processes. Auritas can also support customers preparing for SAP S/4HANA and cloud transformations by helping them optimize their existing environments before migration.
2. Simplifying SAP Landscapes Through Legacy System Decommissioning
As organizations modernize their SAP environments, they often accumulate legacy applications and systems that are no longer needed for daily operations. These systems may contain years of historical transactions, financial records, customer information, and other business-critical data. Even when the applications are no longer actively used, organizations may continue maintaining the infrastructure because the information must remain accessible for reporting, audits, legal requirements, or compliance.
The result is an increasingly complex IT landscape with unnecessary maintenance costs, security risks, and operational dependencies. Legacy system retirement is particularly relevant during SAP S/4HANA migrations, mergers and acquisitions, business divestitures, and enterprise application consolidation initiatives.
How SAP and Auritas can work together to solve legacy system issues:
Auritas helps customers assess legacy landscapes, define decommissioning strategies, preserve required historical information, and retire outdated infrastructure. Its proprietary Data GUARD solution provides a way to maintain controlled access to historical business data without requiring the original SAP system to remain operational.
The solution supports capabilities such as historical data access, retention management, legal hold, e-discovery, security controls, and reporting through compatible analytics applications. Rather than carrying unnecessary legacy infrastructure into a modernized environment, customers can preserve the information they need while reducing the systems they must maintain.
This approach supports several objectives and brings value for SAP customers:
• Reducing legacy infrastructure and application maintenance costs.
• Consolidating enterprise landscapes after SAP migrations.
• Maintaining access to historical business records.
• Supporting compliance, audits, and legal requirements.
• Reducing dependencies on aging technologies and specialized personnel.
The opportunity for SAP: Position legacy decommissioning as part of a broader SAP modernization strategy. SAP teams can introduce Auritas when customers are replacing ECC environments, consolidating applications, or struggling with the cost and complexity of maintaining retired systems.
Together, SAP and Auritas can help customers simplify their technology landscapes while protecting access to critical enterprise information.
3. Building a Foundation for Data Quality, Governance, and AI Readiness
As SAP customers expand their use of analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence, the quality of their enterprise data becomes increasingly important.
Inconsistent master data, duplicate records, fragmented governance processes, and disconnected systems can undermine the reliability of business insights. These issues also make it more difficult to implement new technologies effectively.
SAP Business Data Cloud brings together SAP and third-party data to support governed analytics and AI applications. However, organizations still need strong data quality practices and clearly defined governance responsibilities to make the most of these capabilities.
How SAP and Auritas can work together
Auritas supports organizations through Data Quality Assessments, governance framework development, and the implementation of SAP Master Data Governance (MDG) and SimpleMDG. These services help customers define data ownership, standardize business rules, establish governance processes, and improve the consistency of enterprise information.
Auritas can also support the integration of governance technologies such as Collibra and Reltio with SAP environments, helping organizations establish a more connected approach to enterprise data management.
For customers adopting SAP Business Data Cloud, Auritas can help address data quality challenges before information is made available for advanced analytics and AI use cases.
Value for SAP customers
A coordinated data governance strategy can help organizations improve master data accuracy, reduce duplication, strengthen compliance, and increase confidence in business reporting. It also supports AI initiatives by improving the reliability and consistency of the underlying information.
The opportunity for SAP: SAP Business Data Cloud specialists, account executives, and data and analytics teams can engage Auritas when customers experience data quality problems, are planning SAP MDG implementations, or need to prepare enterprise information for AI initiatives.
Rather than treating data quality as a separate technical exercise, SAP and Auritas can position it as a fundamental requirement for successful enterprise transformation.
4. Modernizing Document Management Across SAP Applications
Enterprise information extends far beyond the structured data stored in SAP databases. Organizations manage millions of invoices, contracts, employee records, engineering documents, customer communications, and other business files. Much of this information is distributed across multiple repositories, applications, and storage platforms.
Without an effective document management strategy, customers can face higher storage costs, inefficient document retrieval, inconsistent retention practices, and limited visibility into critical business content.
Document management becomes particularly important during cloud migrations, application modernization, and initiatives involving multiple SAP and non-SAP platforms.
How SAP and Auritas can work together
Auritas provides document management services across OpenText and SAP environments, including solution implementations, health checks, upgrades, cloud migrations, and integrations.
Its capabilities include OpenText Extended ECM (xECM), OpenText Document Presentment, OpenText Archiving and Document Access, and document capture technologies.
Auritas also offers proprietary solutions such as DMS+ by Auritas. DMS+ extends document access and management capabilities through features such as intelligent search, document analysis, summarization, redaction, and contextual information access.
Auritas can help customers evaluate document storage architectures that may include OpenText repositories, SAP Content Server, SAP BTP-based storage options, and cloud storage services. The objective is to select an architecture that balances accessibility, integration, governance, performance, and long-term storage costs.
A specialized opportunity with SAP SuccessFactors
Employee document management represents another area of collaboration. Organizations using SAP SuccessFactors often need to manage substantial volumes of employee documentation while maintaining appropriate security, accessibility, and retention controls.
Auritas implements OpenText Extended ECM for SAP SuccessFactors, enabling customers to manage employee documents outside the core HR application while maintaining access through connected business processes.
Auritas identifies itself as the only North American partner certified in the OpenText SuccessFactors Connector, a distinction that should be validated before external publication.
The opportunity for SAP: SAP SuccessFactors teams, BTP specialists, and enterprise architects can introduce Auritas when customers need to modernize document storage, improve content accessibility, consolidate repositories, or establish a more scalable document management strategy.
This creates opportunities to support SAP application modernization while improving how customers manage the unstructured information associated with their business processes.
5. Improving Finance Operations Through Automation and Process Optimization
Finance transformation is another significant opportunity for SAP and Auritas to collaborate. Many enterprise organizations still rely on manual activities to process invoices, reconcile vendor accounts, manage accruals, calculate taxes, and complete other financial transactions.
These processes can create operational bottlenecks, increase costs, delay financial reporting, and limit visibility across business operations. As customers modernize their SAP finance environments, they increasingly need solutions that integrate financial transactions, supporting documentation, and automated workflows.
How SAP and Auritas can work together
Auritas provides implementation, integration, assessment, and optimization services across several finance technologies, including SAP Central Invoice Management, OpenText Vendor Invoice Management (VIM), SAP Ariba, SAP Taulia, Vertex, and Vistex.
Through OpenText VIM and related capture technologies, Auritas helps organizations automate invoice intake, document recognition, validation, approval workflows, and integration with SAP financial transactions.
Auritas also offers specialized solutions such as Intelligent Accrual and Automated Vendor Reconciliation to address financial processes that may require capabilities beyond standard application configurations.
For procurement organizations, Auritas can support SAP Ariba implementations and integrations with invoice management technologies to create a more connected procure-to-pay process. This is particularly relevant for customers with complex direct procurement requirements or hybrid procurement environments.
Customer results demonstrate the opportunity
Auritas has supported finance automation initiatives for large enterprise customers.
- For example, NVIDIA achieved a 51% touchless invoice processing rate within three months, with invoice cycle times reduced from 18 days to 4.5 days.
- Auritas has also supported Air Products in managing complex invoice processing requirements across numerous countries and business entities.
These projects illustrate the value of combining enterprise financial software with specialized implementation expertise and process optimization.
Extending finance automation into sustainability reporting
Another opportunity involves using information already captured through financial processes for additional business purposes like ESG reporting. Utility invoices and other operational documents often contain information relevant to sustainability reporting, including energy consumption, resource usage, and emissions-related activity.
Auritas helps customers extend OpenText Invoice Management and Intelligent Capture capabilities to collect, validate, and structure this information. Instead of creating separate manual data collection processes, organizations can use existing invoice workflows to support more traceable sustainability information.
The opportunity for SAP: Finance, procurement, and customer success teams can engage Auritas when customers want to automate financial processes, improve invoice management, connect procurement technologies, or extend existing SAP investments into new business use cases.
6. Increasing SAP BTP Adoption and Helping Customers Realize Value from Their Investments
For many SAP customers, purchasing technology is only the first step. The larger challenge is identifying practical applications that deliver measurable business value. Some organizations have committed to SAP BTP capacity or consumption-based commercial arrangements like CPEA or BTPEA but have not yet developed a clear roadmap for using those resources effectively. This can create a gap between the capabilities available to the customer and the benefits the customer actually realizes.
How SAP and Auritas can work together for CPEA or BTPEA consumption: Auritas offers products and implementation services that can help customers identify relevant SAP BTP use cases.
Products such as Data ASSIST, Data GUARD, and DMS+ can provide opportunities to address business challenges involving data management, legacy systems, and document access.
For example, a customer facing rapidly growing SAP databases may benefit from Data ASSIST, while an organization maintaining expensive legacy applications may be a candidate for Data GUARD. Customers seeking to improve document accessibility and content management may benefit from DMS+.
Where deployment architecture and licensing arrangements permit, these solutions can support increased utilization of SAP BTP resources within the customer’s BTP instance. The focus should remain on selecting applications that solve actual customer problems, rather than encouraging platform consumption for its own sake.
Value for SAP and its customers
For customers, this approach connects existing technology investments with measurable outcomes such as lower infrastructure costs, improved operational efficiency, and simplified system landscapes. For SAP, it provides an opportunity to help customers develop meaningful use cases, strengthen platform adoption, and demonstrate the ongoing value of SAP BTP.
The opportunity for SAP: SAP BTP account teams and customer success organizations can work with Auritas to identify customers with available platform capacity, evaluate relevant business requirements, and develop solution-specific adoption plans.
Why Auritas Is a Valuable Partner for SAP
Auritas brings together capabilities that are often addressed separately within enterprise transformation projects. Its expertise spans SAP data management, data governance, document management, finance automation, and related technologies, allowing customers to address interconnected challenges through a more coordinated approach.
Several characteristics support Auritas’ value within the SAP ecosystem.
- Specialized SAP expertise: Auritas has worked extensively with complex SAP environments, helping customers address technical and operational challenges associated with enterprise-scale systems.
- A combination of services and proprietary products: Auritas provides consulting, assessments, implementations, and ongoing optimization services alongside solutions such as Data ASSIST, Data GUARD, DMS+, and Intelligent Accrual.
- Experience delivering measurable outcomes: Auritas’ customer portfolio includes projects demonstrating database reductions, cost savings, process improvements, and modernization benefits.
- Expertise across complementary technologies: In addition to SAP solutions, Auritas works with OpenText, SimpleMDG Vertex, Vistex, AWS, GCP, Azure, and other enterprise technologies that support business processes within SAP environments.
A customer preparing for SAP S/4HANA may first need to reduce database size. An organization adopting SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC) may need stronger data governance to truly harness the power of AI and analytics. A business modernizing its finance operations may require invoice automation and document integration. Another customer may need to retire legacy applications before it can fully simplify its SAP landscape. In each situation, Auritas can help address the operational challenges that stand between a technology investment and its intended value.
By working together, SAP and Auritas can provide customers with a more comprehensive approach to enterprise transformation, combining SAP’s technology portfolio with Auritas’ specialized implementation expertise, optimization services, and proprietary products.
The result is a collaboration opportunity built around three priorities: accelerating transformation, improving operational efficiency, and maximizing the long-term value of SAP investments. For SAP customers, this means more than implementing new technologies. It means creating cleaner data environments, better-managed business information, more efficient processes, and a stronger foundation for future innovation.
And for SAP and Auritas, it creates a practical opportunity to deliver measurable customer outcomes while strengthening long-term relationships across the SAP ecosystem.
