SAP Information Lifecycle Management: The Comprehensive Guide

Master SAP ILM, from retention management to lifecycle management for custom code. Follow step-by-step instructions and walk through all major functionality including policy creation, legal case management, data archiving, and more. Whether you're on SAP S/4HANA, SAP S/4HANA Cloud, or SAP ERP, you'll find the details you need to configure and use SAP ILM. Control and protect your data!

• Manage live and archived data with SAP Information Lifecycle Management
• Define data management policies and block, delete, and archive data
• Prepare for system decommissioning, implement a GDPR project, and more

Retention Management

Discover the SAP ILM object and how it's used for critical data retention tasks. Walk through key retention management tools like the data controller rule framework and the SAP ILM store and work center.

Data Lifecycle Management

Block, delete, and archive your data with SAP ILM! Understand the complexities of blocking both transactional and master data in SAP ILM. See how to destroy data for good or archive it for future use.

GDPR

Find out how SAP ILM supports you in managing sensitive personal data and making it accessible only to the right people. Get detailed instructions for implementing a GDPR project in your landscape.

• Retention management
• GDPR
• Data security
• Blocking data
• Data deletion
• Archiving data
• Legal case management
• Data controller rule framework
• Custom code data lifecycle
• SAP S/4HANA
• SAP S/4HANA Cloud
• SAP ERP HCM

About the Authors

Iwona Luther has been working at SAP in the area of data archiving, which has evolved over the years into SAP ILM, for the past 20 years. She initially worked as a developer, then as a project manager, coordinator, and in quality assurance. She is responsible for the customer courses BIT660, BIT670, and BIT665, and she is the product standard owner for SAP ILM. Iwona is also the contact person for the DSAG and ASUG Data Archiving and SAP ILM working groups.

Nicole Fernandes has worked as a translator for English, French, and German texts since 2005. Her fields of expertise are software/information technology and medical research/genetics. Her projects have included the translation of specialized ERP systems and industry-specific software solutions for the temporary employment sector (including documentations, user manuals, etc.). She also works as a senior editor for the online dictionary linguee.com (English/German) and contributed sample translations from a variety of fields to the translation machine deepl.com.