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Need help identifying which objects to archive first?Our AI assessment analyses your SAP system and prioritises objects by savings impact.

We built this company because we got tired of watching the same work done the same slow way.

I have spent over fifteen years in the global SAP marketplace. I have sat across the table from CIOs at FTSE 250 manufacturers, run archiving workshops with Basis teams who were drowning in a 6TB database they could not control, and scoped decommissioning programmes for organisations that were paying seven figures a year to keep legacy systems alive because nobody knew how to switch them off safely.

Every engagement followed the same pattern. Fly in a consultant. Spend two weeks running TAANA, pulling DB02 statistics, cross-referencing DB15 for table-to-object mappings, tracing dependency chains between archiving objects, building a spreadsheet, presenting it to the steering committee. Then do the actual work. It is thorough. It works. And it takes far longer than it should, because the assessment phase is fundamentally repetitive — the same analysis, the same logic, the same output structure, every single time.

So I built the technology to automate it. Archon Data exists because AI can do in hours what used to take weeks — and free consultants to focus on the work that actually requires human judgement: understanding your business requirements, defining retention policies with legal and compliance, managing organisational change, and making sure the project sticks after go-live.

Why this matters now

Over 30,000 enterprises need to move to S/4HANA before SAP ends ECC maintenance. Every one of those migrations is slower, riskier, and more expensive with an unmanaged database. HANA licensing is charged per terabyte. GDPR regulators are issuing record fines — £14M from the ICO in a single action, €530M from Ireland's DPC. Hyperscaler costs scale linearly with storage. The business case for archiving has never been clearer.

Yet most organisations still have not done it, because the projects feel too complex, too disruptive, too slow to start. That is the problem we solve. AI reduces the assessment from weeks to hours. Automation handles the scheduling, monitoring, and compliance reporting. Your team stays focused on running the business while we manage the data.

Technical credibility

We do not outsource the technical work. When your Basis team asks about WebDAV storage certification requirements for ILM, or your DPO needs to understand why simplified blocking handles master data differently from standard retention management blocking, or your migration architect wants to know whether the ILM file converter can bring pre-existing ADK archives under governance without re-archiving — we answer from direct experience. We know that archiving MM_EKKO before resolving open line items in EKPO creates referential integrity issues. We know that CDE stores master data in snapshot files, not ADK format, and why that distinction matters for Retention Warehouse queries. That is the kind of knowledge you get from years of hands-on delivery, and it is the knowledge we have embedded into our AI so it scales beyond any single consultant.

Start with the assessment

Whether you are months from a migration or years, the assessment costs nothing and gives you a clear picture of your data estate. Fifteen minutes to set up, a few hours to run, and you will have a report that most consultancies charge five figures to produce.