How SWARCO ensures the stability and reliability of its SAP integrations
Implementation of backup management for the SAP Integration Suite
The invisible life insurance for SAP integrations
There are IT solutions that are visible in day-to-day business and show their benefits immediately. And there are solutions that ideally go unnoticed for a very long time. They work silently in the background and only become relevant when something goes wrong.
Backups clearly belong in this second category. They do not generate any operational advantage. They do not make processes faster or reports more attractive. Their value only becomes apparent at the moment of a crisis. Then a functioning backup decides whether a company can continue working in a few hours or whether weeks of development work are lost.
For this reason, SWARCO AG was looking for a reliable backup solution for its developments in the SAP Integration Suite.
Initial situation and target image
SWARCO AG operates its central integrations on the SAP Business Technology Platform. New interfaces and mappings are constantly being created there, which are business-relevant and involve considerable effort.
As SAP does not offer a standardized backup function for the Integration Suite, SWARCO wanted to set up its own safety net. The aim was to create an automated solution that requires no manual intervention and enables recovery within a short period of time.
The solution with three components
The Backup Manager creates complete daily backups of all relevant artifacts such as integration flows, mappings and configurations. Storage is encrypted and versioned. In an emergency, each version can be restored immediately with a single click so that affected processes are quickly productive again.
Axians Backup Manager for SAP Integration Suite
SAP Cloud Connector for secure connection
E-mail integration for automated status messages
A backup is like an insurance policy. You hope you will never need it. But when things get serious, it saves the company’s business.
SAP Consultant
Axians
Result and added value
The solution now works unobtrusively in the background. For SWARCO, this means a clear security gain. All Integration Suite developments are protected. In the event of an emergency, the company can become productive again within a short time without risking long-term downtime.
Measurable effects
The investment not only protects technical artifacts, but also secures the business processes that are based on them. This creates long-term value for SWARCO, which only becomes visible when a critical incident occurs.
| Key figure | after implementation |
| Backup coverage | 100 percent |
| Recovery time | few minutes |
| Administration costs | Fully automated |
| Monitoring | Structured e-mail notifications |
Why Axians
Axians has many years of experience in securing SAP BTP environments. The Axians Backup Manager for SAP Integration Suite was developed specifically for this purpose and closes the technical gap left open by SAP.
The arguments in favor of Axians were clear:
The solution can be integrated directly into the existing landscape. It works fully automatically, it is easy to monitor and, in the event of an emergency, it allows for one-click recovery. Axians can also take over monitoring as part of a managed service if required.
Would you prefer to make provisions rather than make up for it?
Protect your SAP integrations and developments with the Axians Backup Server.
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