Hardware independence

Because the encoding of numerical fields, such as integers, depends on the hardware being used, archiving must ensure that information about hardware is appended to the archived data so that the data can be displayed later with different hardware.

Release dependence

Because the data structure may depend on the release status of the mySAP Business Suite solution that you are using, record structure and field definition information must also be archived.

Data Dependencies Many data objects depend on other data objects. Consequently, when archiving data, you must check whether, in order to archive a specific data object, another object must first be archived or whether other objects are to be archived at the same time.

Enterprise and business structure

Some data is only of use in conjunction with an enterprise’s organizational structure, such as how it is divided into different areas for sales. Archiving must therefore ensure that this information is also archived.