Success story
Sun TV Network Ltd
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One of India’s largest broadcasters
solves data growth challenges withOpenText Solutions for SAPSun TV leverages OpenText and Avaali to control data
growth and reduce report processing time

Results
Reduction in systemadministration and costs
Transaction process
improvements
Database space gained byarchiving three years of data

“With the OpenText solutions we put in place, we saw a reductionin our storage and system administration costs, along withprocess improvements for our transactional processes.”Ananth Nagarajan
CIOSun TV

One of India’s largest broadcasters solves data growth challenges with OpenText Solutions for SAPSun TV, one of India’s largest media conglomerates, operates 33
television channels with a reach of more than 95 million households
in India. Sun TV Network’s channels are available in 27 countries,
including the United States, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka,
South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and across Europe.
Sun TV is also in the business of FM Radio broadcasting and thecompany’s film production and distribution division, Sun Pictures,produces and distributes movies in the Tamil language. The company
also has the license to operate an Indian Premier League franchisecalled “Sun Risers Hyderabad.”

Addressing the challenges of rapid SAP data growth

Sun TV has seen immense business growth recently, and subsequently
their SAP ECC 6.0 database grew to an unmanageable size. Sun TV
explored options for archiving solutions from SAP® and OpenText for
their ECC system with the goals to keep the production database lean,
increase performance and improve business efficiency. The company
had too many open transaction documents in SAP from past years andneeded a solution to identify open documents and close them. There
were also gaps in their current processes that resulted in continued accumulation of open transactions in SAP—transactions that were not closed
even though the corresponding business process was completed.
Sun TV was also looking to reduce maintenance windows and systemadministration costs, implement compliant, long-term data storage
mechanisms and meet industry standards from a statutory andregulatory perspective.
To address their goals, Sun TV selected OpenText™ Archiving for SAP®
Solutions and OpenText™ Document Access for SAP® Solutions. “We
looked at various solutions and selected OpenText Archiving andDocument Access for SAP Solutions due to their deep integration
with SAP. We believe that this solution will best address our problem ofdecreasing performance of SAP applications, growing administrative
effort, growing resource consumption, and overall rising TCO,” said
Ananth Nagarajan, CIO, Sun TV.

Partnering with Avaali

For their implementation of Archiving and Document Access, Sun TV
chose OpenText implementation partner, Avaali. “We did an evaluation ofvarious implementation partners and chose Avaali as our implementation partner due to its rich skill sets and implementation experienceof successfully executing multiple projects for OpenText solutions forSAP,” said Nagarajan.
The implementation team from Avaali performed a detailed analysis of
the SAP ECC database, identified key drivers for database growth andcurrent database size, coordinated with infrastructure and storage teams
and conducted workshops with key business and functional users tofinalize the archiving policy. The Avaali team created a detailed blueprint
document before starting the implementation.

Business benefits

Sun TV now has the ability to run a detailed SAP database analysis, which
identifies appropriate data management approaches. The Document
Access and Archiving solution enables the archiving, management, andretrieval of all business documents from within the SAP infrastructure.
Documents are stored in a secure, unalterable form in the OpenText™
Archive Server and the solution integrates seamlessly into leading SAP
applications, allowing SAP users to access all documents regardless oftheir location. All employees have instant access to the same information,
enabling efficient, global business processes along with a consistent flow

“We gained databasespace by archiving threeyears of data, while
retaining online accessto archived data via SAP
screens. In addition,
we now have no opentransactions in SAP.”
Ananth Nagarajan
CIOSun TV

One of India’s largest broadcasters solves data growth challenges with OpenText Solutions for SAPof information, which integrates not only customer data, but also datafrom suppliers and other business partners. Sun TV can now identify andlist all transaction documents in SAP that are open, identify the reasons
why transactions are left open and develop procedures to close them.
The Data Archiving solution allows them to archive all older data into an
external archive server and delete corresponding records from the SAP
database. This has yielded a reduction in database size and improved
performance.
“With the OpenText solutions we put in place, we saw a reduction in
our storage and system administration costs, along with process
improvements for our transactional processes,” said Nagarajan. “Wegained database space by archiving three years of data while retainingonline access to archived data via SAP screens. In addition, we now
have no open transactions in SAP. With this solution in place, we feel
we are better prepared to manage our continued business growth
going forward.”

About Avaali Solutions

Avaali Solutions www.avaali.com is a specialist in enabling organizations to leverage digital technologies to manage their internal businessprocesses as well as engage better with their ecosystem (customers,partners, vendors etc.). Avaali’s advisory, consulting and implementation
services in Enterprise Information Management and Enterprise Mobility
has enabled enterprises to transform their business processes andengage better with their stakeholders including customers, employees,partners, vendors and shareholders.

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