Data archiving is not a new concept as organizations use it to manage the database volume to manage SAP footprints. As S/4HANA architecture, where the database is already a columnar database for a robust and fast performance of reporting/transactions, why are we discussing data archiving now? There can still be organizations with a very high data footprint and looking for archiving old data, especially for clients who converted their old SAP system to S/4HANA and thus may carry the legacy data if not archived before moving to S/4HANA.