IT Modernization Demands Secure Archiving. We Seamlessly Migrate Your Historical Data.
Whether you are retiring a data warehouse or a business intelligence platform, with AvenDATA you can secure your critical analytics and leverage your enterprise insights permanently.
The Challenge of Legacy Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse Platforms
As you execute complex cloud migrations or modernize your enterprise analytics, you face a critical hurdle: permanently retiring obsolete architectures such as SAP BW, IBM Cognos, Oracle BI, MicroStrategy or SQL-based solutions. You cannot simply pull the plug. Strict Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) requirements and rigid legal frameworks demand that you guarantee the long-term traceability and complete audit readiness of your mission-critical analytics and reporting data.
Typical challenges when managing legacy business intelligence (BI) and data warehouse (DWH) platforms:
- Massive Budget Drain: Ongoing maintenance, obsolete infrastructure and recurring licence fees continually consume your IT budget.
- Severe Security Liabilities: Outdated servers, legacy database versions and aging BI tools expose your organization to critical vulnerabilities and growing technical debt.
- Stranded IT Capacity: Keeping legacy systems online traps your top talent in endless cycles of maintenance, monitoring and support.
- Roadblocks to Modernization: Obsolete BI architectures lack the agility to integrate seamlessly with your forward looking cloud environments.
- Strict Regulatory Mandates: You must guarantee that your historical analytics remain readily accessible for rigorous CRA audits and internal compliance reviews.
AvenDATA Delivers the Solution
We empower you to completely shut down your historical business intelligence and data warehouse platforms without data loss or compliance risks.
Our web-based archiving platform ensures a high-performance, fully audit-ready transition. Your critical analytics and enterprise reports remain instantly searchable and fully viewable, without the significant cost of keeping the original analytics environment active.
Industry-Standard Platform
Backed by Over 17 Years of IT Modernization Expertise
For over 17 years, AvenDATA has refined the retirement of legacy BI and DWH architectures. We have continuously evolved our infrastructure and proven our methodology in thousands of successful enterprise decommissioning projects worldwide. Our highly structured approach enables you to meet every regulatory demand, from ensuring CRA audit readiness to providing robust legal documentation for past enterprise analytics.
At the heart of our approach is ViewBox. We engineered this high-performance retrieval system specifically to manage archived data from retired analytics and reporting platforms such as SAP BW, IBM Cognos, Oracle BI and Microsoft-based data warehouses.
ViewBox gives your internal departments – including Controllership, Compliance and Auditing – as well as external financial auditors rapid, secure and fully audit-ready access.
Global enterprises and more than half of the top TSX-listed companies trust ViewBox. This broad adoption is clear proof of our stability, flexibility and outstanding operational performance.
From North America to Europe and across Asia, our proven solution supports businesses around the world.
Your BI and DWH Data Securely Archived and Permanently Accessible
within ViewBox
Even after you retire business intelligence or data warehouse platforms such as SAP BW, IBM Cognos, Oracle BI or Microsoft SQL Server, your enterprise data remains completely intact. We seamlessly migrate your critical data models and reporting tables. We guarantee highly secure, audit-ready archiving and can optionally embed digital signatures to provide strong legal evidence.
Our streamlined execution delivers:
- Secure archiving of all relevant analytics and reporting tables, maintaining their original structure and exact content
- Tamper-proof storage with optional digital signatures for legal compliance
- Optional creation of customized reports and complex analyses based entirely on your archived BI data
Before we launch your project, we collaborate directly with your executive leadership. Together, we determine the exact data models, complex cubes and critical fact tables that require migration. We identify the analytics required for future CRA audits, strategic internal analysis or statutory retention requirements.
Years later, ViewBox enables your team to run targeted searches, access fully documented structures and continue to leverage your historical data. You retain the ability to generate custom reports on demand.
Whether you face rigorous CRA audits, internal inquiries or complex legal demands, ViewBox ensures that your historical BI and DWH records remain highly structured, fully traceable and instantly accessible, entirely independent of the original analytics architecture.
Accelerated Execution, Significant Economic Value and Measurable ROI
Even for Highly Complex BI and DWH Platforms
Retiring a legacy business intelligence or data warehouse platform typically takes just three to six months, depending on your specific analytical models, reports, custom interfaces and total data volume. We use a highly standardized, proven methodology to archive even the largest analytics environments efficiently, securely and transparently while ensuring full CRA compliance.
We have completed enterprise archiving projects exceeding 15 terabytes of data. These projects included the complete migration of complex analytical data models, optional digital signature integration for legal evidence and highly customized report generation based entirely on the archived information.
Backed by our proven, industry-standard approach, trusted by TSX-listed companies, your organization achieves significant financial savings immediately after project completion. You eliminate ongoing expenses, including costly licence fees for legacy BI platforms, database servers and third-party software, as well as unnecessary hardware maintenance, infrastructure overhead and internal IT support burdens.
In the vast majority of our projects, clients achieve a full return on investment (ROI) in well under one year. You gain financial predictability by completely shutting down obsolete BI and DWH architectures and modernizing your enterprise IT landscape.
BI or DWH Platform
System Analysis
The critical first step in archiving your business intelligence or data warehouse platform is a rigorous structural analysis of your existing architecture. This strategic deep dive establishes the foundation needed to accurately project timelines, data scope and total costs for your legacy system retirement.
We meticulously evaluate both the technical framework and your business content, covering:
- Secure access protocols across your underlying database environment
- The architecture, scale and volume of your reporting tables, complex cubes and data models
- The strategic relevance and statutory purpose of your stored analytics and reporting data
- System-specific customizations, including custom views, complex extract, transform, load (ETL) processes, triggers, stored procedures and interface dependencies
We consolidate these insights into a definitive fixed-price proposal detailing precise timelines and clearly defined deliverables. This gives your organization full financial predictability and enables your executive leadership to make decisions with confidence before the project even launches.
BI or DWH Platform
Archiving Project
Once your system analysis is complete, your archiving project begins. We execute your project with strict professional oversight, transparent milestones and a core focus on minimizing the operational burden on your internal IT department.
We begin the process with a collaborative kick-off meeting. Together with your leadership team, we align on all technical requirements and organizational frameworks. From that moment, our experts take the heavy lifting off your shoulders:
- Secure configuration of direct access to your BI or DWH environment
- Reliable export and migration of all mission-critical reporting data, tables and complex data models
- Optional generation of highly customized reports based entirely on your archived analytics data
- Comprehensive, fully audit-ready documentation of every project step
Our experienced project managers guide you through every phase. We guarantee transparent communication and ensure a smooth transition while requiring minimal internal resources from your team.
To complete the project, we carry out rigorous testing and formal acceptance. We verify that all enterprise data is archived, accurate, traceable and instantly accessible.
BI or DWH Platform
Final Archiving Results
By the end of the project, we have migrated all critical analytics objects, data models and reporting tables from your legacy business intelligence or data warehouse platform directly into ViewBox, our proven industry-standard platform.
ViewBox is a highly secure, web-based retrieval system. It provides your organization and authorized external auditors with rapid, secure and fully audit-ready access to archived analytics data for many years after your legacy system retirement.
Your Strategic Advantage: On request, we generate customized reports based directly on your archived content to support rigorous CRA audits, provide definitive legal evidence or inform internal strategic analyses. All of these mission-critical tasks are completed without logging into the original analytics platform.
Following successful implementation and formal acceptance of ViewBox, you can permanently shut down your legacy BI or DWH architecture.
At project completion, you receive comprehensive procedural documentation that ensures total transparency and supports CRA compliance by detailing:
- The exact methodology and architecture used for your data transfer
- The volume and precise content of your archived data models
- The rigorous testing and formal acceptance phases carried out with your team
Furthermore, we meticulously log every project milestone in our internal Jira ticketing system. From the initial data export through final approval to the deletion of the source system, we guarantee total traceability.
This provides internal compliance teams, external financial auditors and regulatory bodies with clear proof of a secure and fully documented archiving process.
ViewBox Enterprise:
Use Archived Data from Legacy Systems Securely and Quickly
With ViewBox Enterprise, AvenDATA offers a powerful platform for secure access to data from decommissioned ERP and other legacy systems. The solution combines modern search and analysis capabilities with high performance, comprehensive security mechanisms and intelligent, AI-powered features.
ViewBox Enterprise ensures that your archived data:
- remains understandable and usable many years after a system has been shut down;
- can be searched, filtered and analyzed quickly and precisely;
- is available in an audit-ready, traceable form for both internal and external audits;
- is protected against unauthorized access through role-based permissions;
- can be analyzed more efficiently using intelligent features;
- remains available independently of the original application.
One standout feature is automated, rule-based data deletion. Based on statutory, contractual or internal retention periods, data can be deleted in a controlled, traceable and documented manner once the applicable period has expired. In this way, ViewBox Enterprise helps organizations meet their privacy and compliance requirements.
This ensures that historical company data remains available for as long as it is needed.
Ready to Take
Your Next Step?
In an exclusive, complimentary one-hour strategic consultation, we jointly evaluate your BI or DWH platform, whether you are retiring SAP BW, IBM Cognos or Oracle BI. We will show you live how to efficiently shut down your original platform while guaranteeing that your historical data remains permanently accessible and fully audit-ready.
During this session, we deliver:
- Precise strategic alignment covering your exact data structures, secure table migration and comprehensive access protocols
- An exclusive live demonstration of ViewBox, our proven industry-standard platform for enterprise archiving
- A clear technical roadmap detailing exactly how we generate structured queries and highly customized reports on demand
- A rock-solid assessment providing you with realistic timelines, required effort and financial predictability for your IT modernization
Full transparency from day one
Our project proposals are anchored in strictly defined fixed pricing, guaranteed with no hidden fees or renegotiations. We centre our entire methodology on delivering uncompromising quality, unwavering reliability and an exceptional ROI for TSX-listed companies and global enterprises.
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