Luther, who works in data archiving at SAP, and Fernandes, a translator, describe how to handle data when using SAP Information Lifecycle Management, including archiving data in complex system landscapes and handling personal data from a data protection perspective and legacy data from decommissioned systems. They explain the basics of data retention from the perspective of different business areas, legal regulations, the development of SAP Information Lifecycle Management, and its advantages over classical data archiving; its basic functions; additional functions in retention management; how to block and archive master data and transactional data using transactions and SAP Information Lifecycle Management; the configuration and implementation of SAP Information Lifecycle Management in an SAP S/4HANA Cloud system; handling personal employee data in SAP Enterprise Resource Planning Human Capital Management; implementing a SAP Information Lifecycle Management General Data Protection Regulation project; handling legacy data from shutdown systems; and managing the data lifecycle of custom code with SAP Information Lifecycle Management. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)