Question Re: IXOS Technical Information, Please in Technology Q&A

IXOS Technical Information, Please

dean_hinson2 — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:04:28 GMT

Hello,

My comrade and I have been tasked to take over archiving of another division due to loss of personnel. However, this division uses IXOS and we have been asked to see if it possible to uninstall IXOS and not do content repositories. Since we do not know anything about IXOS and have been archiving with vanilla SAP archiving processes without archivelink, we are out of our expertise.

Can anyone provide some technical information regarding IXOS? Also, would it be nearly impossible to remove it from the system? Can the data be retrieved if IXOS is removed? Also, is there an arguement why it should stay?

Thank you in advance for any assistance.

Re: IXOS Technical Information, Please

Former Member — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 18:47:59 GMT

Dean, your question is a complex one...

I would suggest before you try to remove IXOS to understand what is IXOS used for in your company. IXOS offers many capabilities that are not offered (or can be offered at a higher cost) by the vanilla SAP archiving. IXOS is based on ArchiveLink, and it can archive data on many storage devices. This data can come from various SAP business applications (FI, HR etc), so if you are to replace IXOS, you would have to re-write all those interfaces using ArchiveLink.

Re: IXOS Technical Information, Please

dean_hinson2 — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:10:36 GMT

Yes, it is a complex question, but I think it is all about practical functionality and usage. I think what I have to do is fine the exact level of usage and root cause for having the product in the first place. We have several archiving products in this company and maybe we need to whittle it down to the ones that can be used for more than one application. Sometimes products are not used to their full potential and causes off-the-cuff purchasing of other products without really doing any thorough research.

Anyway, Thank you for your reply. But I still need some kind of information of how IXOS is integrated with SAP and its functionality. Would you know where I can find that information?

Regards, Dean.

Re: IXOS Technical Information, Please

Former Member — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:41:30 GMT

send me your email address and I'll see if I can find anything.

Re: IXOS Technical Information, Please

dean_hinson2 — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:10:29 GMT

It is dean.hinson@us.bosch.com. Thanks for your help.

Re: IXOS Technical Information, Please

Former Member — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:28:41 GMT

Hi,

Please provide me some detials or kind of information of how IXOS is integrated with SAP and its functionality. Would you know where I can find that information?

my email id is mathuchat@yahoo.com

please send the details to this mail id

regards

Madhu

Re: IXOS Technical Information, Please

dean_hinson2 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:55:06 GMT

Not using IXOS... dead deal.