An expert-built SAP data-retention standard – know how long to keep every category of SAP data, and enforce it with SAP ILM.
Keeping SAP data too long is a liability; deleting it too soon breaks the law. Most organizations have no consistent, defensible answer to how long each category of SAP data should be kept – or how to enforce it once they decide.
This standard gives you the framework: a baseline retention schedule by SAP data domain, the regulatory driver behind each, disposition rules, technical and log-data retention, and an SAP ILM enforcement model covering archiving, end-of-purpose blocking, destruction, and legal hold.
What this replaces
- A records-retention or SAP GRC consultant building an equivalent schedule and ILM model: typically weeks of effort.
- Generic retention templates: not mapped to SAP data domains, SAP ILM, or personal-data erasure.
What you get
- A configurable Microsoft Word standard – fully editable, professionally formatted, and ready to adopt:
- Complete framework – retention principles, a baseline retention schedule by data domain, technical/log-data retention, and the SAP ILM enforcement model.
- Built to customize – retention periods are bracketed placeholders your Legal and Compliance teams set for your jurisdictions.
- Framework alignment – mapped to GDPR (storage limitation, erasure), ISO/IEC 27001, NIST SP 800-53, and SOX.
- Directly implementable – ties to the SAP Data Classification Standard, SAP ILM, and masking of non-production copies.