Retire Your Legacy SAP Without SAP ILM.
Secure, analyze, and leverage your data with AvenDATA.

From classic R/3 and ECC 6.0 architectures to SAP HANA: We execute your complete legacy system retirement across all software generations and highly customized industry solutions like Bank Analyzer and IS U modules. We guarantee high performance archiving and absolute CRA audit readiness entirely without the massive administrative burden of SAP ILM.

The Challenge

Many TSX listed companies and global enterprises face a massive financial drain: maintaining obsolete legacy SAP environments that no longer drive operational value. You cannot simply pull the plug because rigorous CRA mandates and strict statutory retention periods demand absolute data availability.
SAP offers Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) for data archiving and rule based deletion. However, deploying ILM creates severe operational roadblocks. The module remains deeply entangled within your active SAP landscape and demands exhaustive configuration before you can even use it.
Typical bottlenecks when managing legacy systems with SAP ILM:
Complex Configuration: You must manually adapt intricate tables, archive objects, deletion rules, and user permissions, actively bleeding your internal IT capacity.
Massive Implementation Drain: Rolling out ILM routinely consumes months of project time and exhausts your critical internal and external resources.
Perpetual Licensing Fees: Even during your legacy system retirement, you continue bleeding capital through ongoing SAP specific maintenance and licensing costs.
Severe Security Liabilities: Forcing obsolete hardware and outdated SAP versions to stay online exposes your organization to critical security risks and drastically inflated operating expenses.
Rigid Vendor Lock In: ILM remains strictly tethered to the SAP ecosystem, making independent data retrieval and agile IT modernization nearly impossible.
AvenDATA delivers a faster, highly cost effective, and vastly superior alternative. We empower you with a fully web based industry standard platform that completely bypasses tedious customization. You achieve instant audit readiness and securely archive your mission critical SAP data entirely independent of the original SAP architecture.

Industry-Standard Platform
backed by over 17 years of IT modernization expertise

For over 17 years, AvenDATA has relentlessly perfected the archiving of historical SAP data. We deliver a practical and fully audit ready alternative to SAP ILM. Across hundreds of successful legacy system retirements, we have continuously optimized our solution. We empower you to confidently conquer every departmental demand, rigorous CRA audit, and complex legal inquiry.
The core of our methodology is the ViewBox retrieval system. It stands as a proven solution for both daily compliance audits and secure enterprise wide access. ViewBox entirely replaces complex ILM architectures with a clearly structured web based interface. It delivers an exceptional user experience, high performance, and absolute regulatory compliance.
More than half of the top TSX listed companies and global enterprises trust ViewBox. This massive adoption provides clear proof of our unmatched stability, flexibility, and elite operational performance. From North America to Europe and Asia, our industry standard platform empowers businesses worldwide.

Your SAP Analytics Live On as Interactive Reports
powered by ViewBox

Even after your legacy system retirement, your vital analytics remain fully active, perfectly traceable, and instantly accessible. AvenDATA goes beyond simply extracting your relevant data. We guarantee you can permanently leverage this intelligence through our web based ViewBox platform entirely without the massive administrative burden of SAP ILM.
Our streamlined execution delivers:
  • Flawless replication of central SAP standard reports and critical business evaluations
  • Seamless execution of highly customized analytics including bespoke client specific Z reports
  • Secure archiving of all underlying assets like financial invoices, accounting logs, and purchase orders to guarantee absolute traceability
Long before we launch your IT modernization, we collaborate directly with your executive leadership. Together we identify the exact reports you need to conquer future tax evaluations, fulfill rigid legal mandates, and drive ongoing corporate analytics. We instantly inject our massive expertise from countless legacy system retirements across diverse industries directly into your project execution.
Decades after you shut down your original environment, these reports remain permanently available within ViewBox for deep research, strategic analysis, and compliance auditing. You achieve this entirely independent of your original SAP architecture and completely free from ongoing SAP licensing fees.
Whether you face rigorous CRA audits, internal reviews, or complex legal inquiries, ViewBox empowers you to maintain absolute control. Fully audit ready. Instantly filterable. Permanently available.

Accelerated Execution and
a Measurable ROI
even for highly complex SAP environments

Executing a complete legacy SAP system retirement typically takes one to six months depending on your specific architectural complexity and data volume. We leverage a highly structured and standardized methodology to efficiently and securely archive even the most massive enterprise SAP landscapes.
We have successfully transitioned colossal SAP systems holding over 30 terabytes of data directly into our secure industry standard platform. This includes flawless migration of all standard evaluations, highly customized Z reports, and comprehensive underlying assets.
Empowered by our proven approach, your enterprise rapidly realizes massive financial savings specifically eliminating costs for:
  • Legacy SAP and ECM software licenses
  • Outdated databases and operating systems
  • Unnecessary maintenance and infrastructure overhead
  • Intensive internal IT support burdens
In the overwhelming majority of our projects, clients achieve a full Return on Investment in well under 12 months. You drive measurable and permanent savings by drastically slashing operating costs and wiping out unnecessary system burdens.

SAP
 System Analysis

The critical first step in your IT modernization is a rigorous analysis of your existing SAP environment. This strategic assessment establishes the exact foundation needed to accurately project timelines and streamline costs for your legacy system retirement.
We meticulously evaluate both the technical architecture and your organizational business requirements covering:
  • System accessibility protocols across your legacy SAP landscape
  • The precise type, structural architecture, and massive scale of your underlying databases
  • The exact scope and regulatory relevance of your existing SAP reports
  • Customized system nuances capturing bespoke Z reports and intricate third party interfaces
We consolidate these crucial insights into a definitive fixed price proposal. This guarantees your global enterprise absolute financial predictability and empowers your executive leadership to drive decision making with total confidence.

SAP
 Project Archiving

Once we finalize your system analysis, your IT modernization launches with strict efficiency and precisely defined milestones.
We initiate the process with a collaborative kickoff meeting. Together with your leadership team, we align on all technical requirements and strategic objectives. From that moment, our experts take the heavy lifting off your shoulders. We streamline the entire legacy system retirement process:
  • Secure Access Configuration: We establish direct and highly secure access to your SAP environment
  • Flawless Data Transition: We export and securely migrate all mission critical tables and documents
  • Analytics Replication: We precisely rebuild your essential standard reports and custom Z reports
  • Total Audit Readiness: We document every single step to guarantee absolute CRA compliance and definitive legal traceability
Depending on your architectural complexity, your project execution requires just one to six months. Our seasoned project managers guide you through every phase. We guarantee a smooth transition while demanding absolutely minimal internal resources from your team.
We conclude your modernization with rigorous testing and formal acceptance phases. We verify that every piece of your enterprise data is permanently archived, completely accurate, and transparently searchable for future audits.

SAP
 Final Archiving Results

Upon completing your IT modernization project, we successfully migrate all critical tables, documents, and reports directly into ViewBox, our proven industry standard platform.
ViewBox is a secure web based retrieval system. It empowers your TSX listed enterprise with rapid, secure, and fully compliant access to archived information, even decades after your legacy system retirement.
Your Strategic Advantage: We flawlessly reconstruct your vital standard evaluations and highly customized Z reports. You easily resolve technical inquiries, drive complex legal research, and execute tax evaluations without ever logging into the original SAP environment and entirely free of ongoing SAP licensing fees.
Following the successful implementation and formal acceptance of ViewBox, you can permanently shut down your legacy software. This empowers you to instantly slash maintenance costs and eliminate unnecessary hardware overhead.
At project completion, you receive comprehensive procedural documentation. This guarantees total transparency and absolute CRA compliance by detailing:
  • Data Extraction Methodology: The exact approach used for your data transfer and secure migration
  • Archived Architecture: The precise structural classification of your content within ViewBox
  • Quality Assurance: The rigorous testing and formal acceptance phases executed by our team
Furthermore, we meticulously log every single archiving milestone within our Jira ticketing system. From the initial data export and system integration to final approval and ultimate source system deletion, we guarantee total traceability. This provides external auditors with undeniable proof of a fully compliant and secure archiving process.
Seamless Integration for ADK Archive Files
and DART Extracts
Beyond executing a complete legacy system retirement for your primary SAP architecture, we guarantee absolute data continuity for your specialized assets.
  • ADK Archive Files:
    We fully integrate your previously archived ADK data directly into our industry standard platform. We ensure these vital records remain permanently accessible and fully traceable.
  • DART Data Extracts:
    Our solution flawlessly processes DART extracts. You maintain the absolute ability to execute mission critical tax evaluations and guarantee strict CRA compliance long after your original SAP environment goes offline.
Empower Intelligent Access to Archived SAP Data
The Retrieval Software Platform by AvenDATA
AvenDATA engineered ViewBox as a high performance web based retrieval platform specifically built to master your legacy system retirement.
Through an intuitive web interface, ViewBox empowers your team to rapidly locate, strategically analyze, and securely deploy archived enterprise information entirely independent of the original SAP architecture or SAP ILM.
Your Strategic Advantages with ViewBox:
  • Maintain total clarity and instant access to archived data decades after your IT modernization
  • Execute audit ready research functions for rigorous internal reviews and external CRA audits
  • Deploy structured data management to support complex audits, tax evaluations, and critical legal inquiries
A definitive strategic advantage is our automated data lifecycle management. ViewBox executes rule based and fully traceable data deletion aligned exactly with your corporate retention policies. You effortlessly maintain absolute compliance with rigorous privacy frameworks like PIPEDA and GDPR while entirely eliminating manual administrative burdens.
The ViewBox software and its underlying cloud infrastructure hold multiple elite certifications. We subject the entire platform to relentless independent security and performance testing to guarantee maximum availability and absolute protection for your sensitive corporate data.
The ViewBox software and its underlying cloud infrastructure hold multiple elite certifications. We subject the entire platform to relentless independent security and performance testing to guarantee maximum availability and absolute protection for your sensitive corporate data.
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ViewBox – Ihre Brücke
für alle Ihre Legacy Systeme/Altsysteme in die Vergangenheit
Für Fachabteilungen, Steuerprüfer, Wirtschaftsprüfer, interne Controller oder Rechtsabteilungen: Ihre archivierten SAP-Daten bleiben vollständig durchsuchbar, verständlich und auswertbar – ganz ohne SAP-Zugang
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Your Next Step?
In an exclusive and complimentary one hour strategic consultation, we jointly evaluate your legacy SAP environment whether you are operating classic architectures like R/3, ECC, or SAP S/4HANA. We will demonstrate live how to efficiently streamline your legacy system retirement and guarantee your historical data remains permanently accessible, entirely audit ready, and highly secure without the burden of SAP ILM.
AvenDATA delivers a high performance alternative to SAP ILM. We empower your enterprise with a highly intuitive proven solution that guarantees absolute financial predictability and completely liberates you from restrictive ongoing SAP licensing models. During this executive session, we deliver:
  • Precise strategic alignment covering the complex data structures, secure extraction pathways, and existing reporting landscape of your legacy SAP architecture
  • An exclusive live demonstration of ViewBox, our proven industry standard platform for enterprise archiving
  • A clear technical roadmap detailing exactly how we flawlessly replicate your essential standard evaluations and highly customized reports across core modules like FI, CO, MM, and SD
  • A rock solid assessment providing you with accurate timelines, required effort, and absolute financial predictability for your IT modernization
Total transparency from day one:
Our project proposals are anchored in strictly defined fixed pricing, guaranteed with zero hidden fees or renegotiations. We center our entire methodology on delivering uncompromising quality, unwavering reliability, and an exceptional ROI for TSX listed companies and global enterprises.
Our project proposals are anchored in strictly defined fixed pricing, guaranteed with zero hidden fees or renegotiations. We center our entire methodology on delivering uncompromising quality, unwavering reliability, and an exceptional ROI for TSX listed companies and global enterprises.
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