Archive Microsoft Navision
Secure your data, retain critical reports, and ensure CRA compliance with AvenDATA.
From early Navision versions to Dynamics NAV and highly customized ERP environments, we streamline legacy system retirement by archiving Navision data from all versions and industry solutions, covering everything from order processing to financial accounting.
The Challenge
Your historical Microsoft Navision data is critical, yet accessing it is becoming increasingly difficult.
As you drive IT modernization, execute cloud strategies, or initiate legacy system retirement, your enterprise faces a key challenge.
Legacy Microsoft Navision platforms are complex ERP structures built over decades. They contain the exact records you need to mitigate litigation risks and ensure complete CRA compliance.
Yet maintaining these systems drains your budget. The environment is outdated, licences are expiring, and the specialized internal expertise required to run it is disappearing.
Retrieving vital data becomes nearly impossible just when auditors request it. You must keep this information fully accessible, searchable, and secure to meet strict regulatory requirements.
This is exactly where we step in with our proven solution for archiving legacy Navision environments.
Industry-Standard Platform
Backed by more than 17 years of legacy system expertise
AvenDATA has spent more than 17 years perfecting the archiving of ERP platforms such as Microsoft Navision. We have continuously evolved our approach and modernized our infrastructure through thousands of successful legacy system retirement projects.
Our proven methodology helps your enterprise navigate complex regulatory landscapes. We ensure full audit readiness so you can confidently resolve tax and audit inquiries, mitigate litigation risks, and support strict CRA compliance.
Our ViewBox software powers this transition as an industry-standard platform for data retrieval. It delivers reliable performance, whether you need rapid answers for routine audits or secure access across your entire organization.
More than half of the top TSX-listed companies, along with many global enterprises, trust ViewBox. This broad adoption reflects the platform’s stability, agility, and operational performance.
From North America to Europe and Asia, ViewBox is the proven solution for businesses worldwide.
Your Navision Data Lives On
Mission-Critical Reports Powered by ViewBox
We do more than just extract data from your legacy Navision environment. We enable your enterprise to access, analyze, and leverage this vital information permanently within ViewBox, our industry-standard platform.
This archiving project includes:
- Report Reconstruction: We rebuild your essential business evaluations and mission-critical reports.
- Custom Development: We implement your custom-developed objects, lists, and analytics.
- Total Audit Readiness: We securely archive all supporting documentation, including invoices and other accounting records, ensuring complete traceability.
Before initiating your legacy system retirement, we collaborate directly with your team. Together, we define the exact reports required for future corporate analytics, tax purposes, and regulatory compliance. You benefit directly from our extensive experience with TSX-listed companies and global enterprises across every major sector.
Even years after you decommission your original Navision system, ViewBox enables you to search, filter, and analyze your historical data on your own.
Whether you are responding to internal queries, mitigating litigation risks, or facing a rigorous CRA audit, you maintain instant access to structured, intuitive reports. You achieve full audit readiness while permanently reducing Navision licensing costs and eliminating legacy hardware overhead.
Accelerated Execution & Strong Economic Value
Measurable ROI, even for highly complex Navision environments
Legacy system retirement for Microsoft Navision typically takes just one to five months, depending on your system complexity, total data volume, and custom extensions.
We use a highly structured, standardized methodology to streamline your project. This proven approach enables us to archive even the largest, most heavily customized ERP structures efficiently and securely.
We have successfully transitioned large platforms holding multiple terabytes of data into our secure archiving solution. We guarantee that your mission-critical reports, custom developments, and complete system documentation remain fully intact and accessible for regulatory compliance.
Thanks to our established methodology, your enterprise realizes significant financial benefits almost immediately. You substantially reduce ongoing expenses, eliminating costly licensing fees for Dynamics NAV or Business Central as well as unnecessary maintenance, infrastructure overhead, and internal administrative work.
In the vast majority of our projects, clients achieve a full return on investment (ROI) in under one year. You achieve measurable, lasting savings on software licences, IT infrastructure, and internal resources.
Navision
System Analysis
The first step in your project is a comprehensive analysis of your existing ERP environment. This analysis establishes the foundation needed to accurately estimate the timeline and costs of your legacy system retirement.
We carefully evaluate both the technical architecture and the business value of your data to ensure CRA compliance and full audit readiness. Our assessment covers:
- System Accessibility: We identify the best data extraction approach for your specific setup, using methods such as SQL queries, C/AL exports, or XML exports.
- Database Architecture: We map the type, structure, and scale of your underlying databases, including platforms such as Microsoft SQL Server.
- Mission-Critical Assets: We determine the scope and regulatory relevance of your historical reports, essential business forms, and custom ERP extensions.
- Custom Integrations: We catalogue all system specifics, including internally developed modules and complex third-party vendor interfaces.
We consolidate these insights into a fixed-price proposal. This gives your enterprise full financial predictability and enables your leadership to make decisions with confidence.
Navision
Project Archiving
Once your system analysis is complete, your project launches efficiently, with clearly defined milestones.
We begin with a collaborative kick-off meeting. Together with your team, we align on all technical requirements and objectives.
From that moment, our experts do the heavy lifting. We streamline the entire legacy system retirement process:
- Secure Access Configuration: We establish direct data extraction pathways using SQL, XML exports, or API integrations.
- Reliable Data Transfer: We export and securely transfer all relevant Microsoft Navision records into our industry-standard platform.
- Custom Report Recreation: We rebuild your essential accounting journals, strategic reports, and customized enterprise analytics.
- Total Audit Readiness: We document every step to support CRA compliance and legal certainty.
Our experienced project managers guide you through every phase. We ensure a smooth transition while requiring minimal internal resources from your team.
We conclude the project with rigorous testing and formal acceptance phases. We verify that all data in scope is permanently archived, accurate, and fully traceable for future audits.
Navision
Final Archiving Results
By project completion, all critical tables, documents, and evaluations from your Navision system have been migrated into ViewBox, our proven industry-standard platform.
ViewBox is a secure, web-based retrieval system. It gives your enterprise rapid, fully compliant access to archived information, even decades after your legacy system retirement.
Your Strategic Advantage: We reconstruct your essential standard and custom reports, covering all accounting, tax, and business evaluations. You can easily resolve tax and audit inquiries and mitigate litigation risks without ever logging in to the original Navision environment.
Following the successful implementation and formal acceptance of ViewBox, you can permanently shut down your legacy ERP infrastructure. This allows you to cut maintenance costs immediately and eliminate unnecessary hardware overhead.
At project completion, you receive comprehensive process documentation. It ensures full transparency and supports CRA compliance by detailing:
- Data Extraction Methodology: The approach used to securely transfer your Navision data.
- Archived Architecture: The structural organization of your content within ViewBox.
- Quality Assurance: The testing and formal acceptance phases completed during the project.
In addition, we log every archiving milestone in our Jira ticketing system. From the initial data export to final approval and source system deletion, we ensure complete traceability. This provides external auditors with clear evidence of a fully compliant and secure 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 functions 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 auditable, traceable form for both internal and external audits
- is protected against unauthorized access through role-based permissions
- can be analyzed more efficiently with the help of 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 companies meet their data protection and compliance requirements.
Historical company data remains available for as long as you need it.
Ready to Take
Your Next Step?
In a one-hour strategic consultation, we will jointly evaluate your enterprise’s legacy environment, whether you rely on standard platforms, heavily customized applications, or fully proprietary software.
We will demonstrate live how you can streamline your legacy system retirement and maintain permanent CRA audit readiness for your critical historical data. The session includes:
- Strategic alignment on data architecture, secure migration protocols, and vital report retention
- A live demonstration of ViewBox, our industry-standard platform
- A clear breakdown of how we replicate your standard reports and custom analytics
- A solid assessment covering required effort, precise timelines, and total investment
Full transparency from day one:
Our project proposals are based on strictly defined fixed pricing, with no hidden fees or renegotiations. We centre our entire methodology on delivering uncompromising quality, reliability, and an exceptional ROI.
Book your complimentary consultation today to accelerate your project.
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