Dolphin Content Archive Service for Cloud 2.0 Achieves SAP Certification

Dolphin’s interface approach leverages SAP NetWeaver’s built-in secured communication capabilities to connect to cloud storage platforms, just as AT&T Synaptic, Amazon S3, Google Storage Cloud and others. This allows Dolphin to offer a very lean server architecture based on SAP ArchiveLink that requires no additional infrastructure component and fits right into the SAP landscape as an ABAP add-on. As a direct connection to the cloud, it offers superior implementation and speed compared to classic file system-based cloud connection options, where content is streamed through an intermediate file system requiring temporary local storage, yielding slower performance. More importantly, Dolphin CAS for Cloud 2.0 offers byte/offset-based access to archived content in other words critical for data and printlist archiving, which is not available in file system-based cloud connections. Elimination of any new on-premise infrastructure requirement for the connector means this solution can be up and running in less than a day.

With data storage and archiving needs constantly rising, cloud-based offerings are a cost effective alternative to continued expansion of in-house infrastructure or relief from existing software and systems that have reached their cost-effectiveness limits. This furthermore enables IT to align the business value of the data with the cost of storage, without the overhead of added complexity to the IT environment or additional capital expenditure.

The contingency arise to the lean

“Should the contingency arise to the lean, on-premise storage option, the advent of cloud computing and recent improvements in stability, performance and bandwidth coupled with practically unlimited elasticity of the cloud has presented us with a great possibility to tap into the cloud as a viable tier for use with SAP data and document archiving,” according to Vishal Awasthi, CTO at Dolphin.

Dolphin makes crucial business operations like accounts payable, accounts receivable, order management and data management run better and smarter for organizations using SAP solutions. Focused on improving business performance through Information Lifecycle Management and Business Process Management, Dolphin produces the right solution for each customer, faster, through its unmatched experience in SAP technologies, and its proven best practices, tools and add-on applications for SAP solutions. Dolphin solutions improve business and IT performance, lower total cost of ownership and deliver high return on investment.