Today's pain

Decades of SAP data. A finance team that still needs access to all of it.

Custom Z-tables. Module dependencies nobody fully owns anymore. Modernization plans on the horizon. And business users who still need answers from the historical data without keeping the legacy SAP environment running for read-only.

The traditional answer: keep SAP running in read-only mode after modernization. The maintenance never stops. The security posture degrades over time. The institutional knowledge drains. The data sits in a museum that nobody can use.

Solix offers a different answer: retire the legacy SAP environment. Preserve the data in a governed Preservation Zone. Make it queryable through natural language with the Solix SAP Pre-Built Application Knowledge Graph (AKG). Accounting can still ask about a 2019 invoice. Audit can still trace a journal entry. But the legacy environment is gone, the maintenance is gone, and the security exposure is gone.

What an SAP archiving engagement delivers

Retired environment — the legacy SAP runtime can shut down on the modernization schedule.
Preserved data — governed, audit-ready, retention-managed in the Preservation Zone.
AI-activated access — natural-language queries through the Solix SAP AKG, no SAP expertise required.
Attack surface reduction — every retired SAP environment closes a ransomware vector.

The four forces driving SAP archiving today

Why SAP archiving is a strategic conversation.

Cloud migration at scale

Modernization to next-generation SAP platforms is on the agenda for most enterprises. Decades of historical data must be preserved cleanly without keeping the legacy environment running.

M&A and divestitures

Acquired companies bring SAP environments that need preservation under TSA timelines. Divestitures require precise SAP data carve-outs. The same engine handles both sides.

Security imperative

Legacy SAP environments running in read-only mode are unpatched attack surfaces. AI-armed threat actors weaponize new CVEs within days. Retirement is now a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) mandate.

AI value of historical SAP data

Decades of finance, procurement, supply chain, and HR data fuel for enterprise AI applications, trained models, and digital workers.

From SAP-savvy analyst to natural-language user

Who could answer the question yesterday? Who can today?

Yesterday

"Open SE16. BSEG. BUKRS = '1000'. GJAHR = '2019'..."

An SAP-savvy analyst translating Sara's question into transaction codes, table names, and field selections. Output goes to Excel. Takes hours to days. Re-asked when the question changes.
Today

"Open SE16. BSEG. BUKRS = '1000'. GJAHR = '2019'..."

An SAP-savvy analyst translating Sara's question into transaction codes, table names, and field selections. Output goes to Excel. Takes hours to days. Re-asked when the question changes.

The workflow

Connect → Migrate → Enable AI.

Connect to SAP ECC

Solix Connect uses standard SAP interfaces. RFC-based extraction, IDoc support, full HCM and FI/CO/MM/SD module coverage.

Migrate to the Preservation Zone

Quality validation, retention from day one, legal-hold ready. ECC environment can shut down on schedule.

Enable AI Access

The pre-built SAP AKG ships with the platform. Business users query through Data Ask in natural language translated to SAP semantics under the hood.

The SAP AKG

1,800+ synonyms. Productized.

The Solix SAP AKG is a productized knowledge layer: 1,800+ synonyms mapping business language to SAP table and field semantics, value-encoding for standard SAP code fields (BWART, BLART, KOART, MTART, KSCHL, etc.), pre-built query templates for the high-traffic patterns, and S/4HANA backward-compatibility for organizations on their way to ACDOCA / MATDOC / BUT000.

FI/CO

BKPF, BSEG, BSID/BSAD, BSIK/BSAK, GLT0, ACDOCA, COBK/COEP, CSKS, CEPC, SKA1/SKB1.

EKKO/EKPO, EKBE, EBAN, MKPF/MSEG, MARA/MARC/MARD, MBEW, LFA1/LFB1/LFM1.

VBAK/VBAP, LIKP/LIPS, VBRK/VBRP, VBFA, KNA1/KNB1/KNVV.

Cross-cutting

ADRC, CDHDR/CDPOS, JEST/JCDS, BUT000, ZWELS, MAHNS, INSMK.

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Where does the data live?

SolixCloud Preservation Zone multi-tenant, single-tenant, on-premises, or hybrid.

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