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Archive
Link provides a bundle of interfaces, services and scenarios
to SAP applications. Archive Link contains an extensive
display concept and separate document viewer.
Archive Link enables business documents to be automatically
integrated into SAP applications. Originals, such as scanned
incoming invoices are linked to their respective business
objects through which they can be directly accessed from the
respective business process and application document.
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Optical Archiving is electronic capturing and storage of
documents |
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The
central function of ArchiveLink is the integration of all objects
and documents that belong to a business
process, which creates the following advantages:
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:: It allows
you to use all SAP search options for documents, because the
stored documents are accessed from the SAP application
document.
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:: The
documents are integrated into the business processes because
they are linked to their corresponding business objects.
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:: Data is
protected through the SAP authorization concept (application
authorizations, ArchiveLink authorizations).
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Documents managed
with ArchiveLink are physically stored on external storage
systems or content servers via the ArchiveLink interface
developed and defined by SAP. ArchiveLink connects SAP
applications with defined external storage systems.
ArchiveLink is used to control the different components of the
external storage system from within the SAP application
processes.
A typical configuration of an ArchiveLink system comprises the
SAP system, an external storage system for storing
unchangeable documents and possibly an SAP content server for
storing documents that are still being modified (changeable).
On the client side you have centralized or decentralized data
entry stations (for example for the scanning and storing of
documents) and clients, which are used to access the documents. |
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