SAP Migration Mandates Archiving.We Retire Your Legacy Systems.
Secure, analyze, and leverage your data with AvenDATA.

The transition to SAP HANA makes retiring your legacy SAP system inevitable. Whether R/4, ECC 6.0, or industry solutions like IS-U and Bank Analyzer: We archive your legacy system to guarantee high performance and strict audit readiness. Without SAP ILM, but with complete data availability.

The Challenge: Accelerating Your SAP HANA Migration

As you execute your transition to SAP HANA, your enterprise faces a critical hurdle: legacy SAP environments (like classic architectures or ECC 6.0) must be permanently retired. Yet, you cannot simply pull the plug. To guarantee strict CRA compliance and meet mandated statutory retention periods, you must seamlessly transition these records into a secure, permanently accessible, and audit-ready archive.
If you delay your legacy system retirement, you face severe operational threats:
  • Massive Budget Drain: Inactive systems actively devour capital, drastically inflating your licensing, infrastructure, and ongoing maintenance costs.
  • Critical Security Liabilities: Obsolete hardware and unpatched SAP versions expose your organization to severe vulnerabilities while demanding intense IT support.
  • Stranded IT Capacity: Keeping legacy platforms on life support forces your top talent to waste hours extracting historical data instead of driving strategic innovation.
  • Roadblocks to Modernization: Outdated SAP environments inherently lack scalability and cloud readiness, actively dragging down your forward-looking IT strategy.
  • Severe Compliance Risks: You must guarantee your historical data remains instantly accessible, perfectly traceable, and absolutely audit-ready to mitigate litigation risks.
AvenDATA Delivers the Solution. Our web-based archiving platform empowers you to completely shut down your legacy SAP environment post-migration eliminating data loss and wiping out compliance risks. We guarantee a high-performance, audit-ready transition. You maintain total visibility and unrestricted access to your historical SAP records without the massive financial overhead of keeping the original system alive.

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

AvenDATA has spent over 17 years perfecting SAP legacy system retirement. We have continuously evolved our infrastructure and proven our methodology across thousands of successful enterprise decommissionings.
Leveraging our proven approach, we empower your enterprise to navigate complex regulatory landscapes. We ensure absolute audit readiness so you can confidently resolve technical inquiries, mitigate litigation risks, and guarantee strict CRA compliance.
Our ViewBox software powers this transition as an industry-standard retrieval platform. It delivers flawless performance, whether you need rapid answers for daily compliance audits or secure, enterprise-wide data access.
More than half of the top TSX-listed companies and global enterprises trust ViewBox. This massive adoption stands as definitive proof of our unmatched stability, agility, and elite operational performance.
From North America to Europe and across Asia, ViewBox is the proven solution empowering businesses worldwide.

Your SAP Analytics Live On
Interactive Reports Powered by ViewBox

Don’t lose your critical business intelligence during your SAP HANA migration. Even after your legacy system retirement, we ensure your vital analytics remain fully active. We don’t just extract your data; we empower you to permanently leverage, trace, and analyze it within ViewBox, our industry-standard platform.
We deliver seamless operational continuity:
  • Flawless Report Replication: We precisely rebuild your essential SAP standard reports and critical business evaluations.
  • Custom Z-Report Integration: We flawlessly migrate and execute your highly customized, client-specific Z-reports.
  • Total Audit Traceability: We securely archive every underlying asset from financial invoices and purchase orders to accounting logs guaranteeing absolute, tamper-proof evidence for every generated report.
Before initiating your IT modernization, we collaborate directly with your executive leadership. Together, we identify the exact reports required to drive future corporate analytics, guarantee strict CRA compliance, and meet rigid statutory retention mandates. You benefit directly from our massive expertise executing SAP legacy system retirements for diverse TSX-listed companies and global enterprises.
Decades after you shut down your original environment, ViewBox empowers you to independently research, analyze, and deploy your historical reports. You achieve this entirely independent of the original SAP architecture and completely free from ongoing SAP licensing fees.
Whether you are navigating rigorous CRA audits, answering complex internal inquiries, or mitigating legal disputes, you maintain absolute control. You command clearly structured, instantly filterable, and fully audit-ready evaluations at a moment’s notice.

Accelerated Execution & Massive Economic Value
Measurable ROI even for highly complex SAP environments

Depending on your specific architectural complexity and total data volume, executing a complete legacy SAP system retirement typically takes just one to six months. We leverage a highly structured, proven methodology to streamline and securely archive even the most massive enterprise systems.
We have successfully transitioned colossal SAP landscapes holding over 30 terabytes of data including all complex reports, bespoke Z-reports, and comprehensive system documentation directly into our secure archiving solution.
Empowered by our established IT modernization methodology, your enterprise realizes massive financial benefits almost immediately. You will drastically slash ongoing expenses, specifically wiping out costly licensing fees for legacy SAP, ECM platforms, underlying databases, and operating systems. Simultaneously, you eliminate unnecessary maintenance, infrastructure overhead, and internal IT support burdens.
In the overwhelming majority of our projects, our clients achieve a full Return on Investment (ROI) in well under one year. You drive measurable, permanent savings across your software licenses, IT infrastructure, and internal resource allocation while securing your corporate data forever.

SAP
 System Analysis

The critical first step in your IT modernization is a rigorous analysis of your existing SAP environment. This strategic deep dive 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 to ensure absolute CRA compliance and total audit readiness. Our comprehensive assessment covers:
  • System Accessibility: We map your exact access protocols across the legacy SAP landscape.
  • Database Architecture: We analyze the precise type, structure, and massive scale of your underlying databases.
  • Mission Critical Analytics: We determine the exact scope and regulatory relevance of your existing SAP reports.
  • Customized Logic: We catalog all unique 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 TSX listed 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, 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.
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 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 Files
and DART Extracts
Beyond executing a complete legacy system retirement for your primary SAP architecture, our proven methodology guarantees absolute data continuity for your specialized SAP 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 CRA compliance long after your original SAP environment goes offline.
ViewBox Retrieval Software
Empowering Intelligent Access to Your Archived SAP Data
AvenDATA engineered ViewBox as a high performance 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 without accessing the original SAP architecture.
ViewBox guarantees your historical data drives continuous value. We ensure your mission critical records:
  • Maintain Total Clarity: Remain fully accessible and strategically useful decades after your IT modernization.
  • Guarantee Audit Readiness: Deliver instant and tamper proof retrieval for absolute legal security.
  • Streamline Compliance: Provide highly structured evidence for rigorous internal reviews and external CRA audits.
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 and statutory timelines.
Trusted by TSX listed companies and global enterprises, ViewBox and its underlying cloud infrastructure hold multiple elite certifications. We subject the entire platform to relentless security and performance testing to guarantee absolute operational resilience.
Trusted by TSX listed companies and global enterprises, ViewBox and its underlying cloud infrastructure hold multiple elite certifications. We subject the entire platform to relentless security and performance testing to guarantee absolute operational resilience.
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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
Ready to Execute
Your Next Step?
In an exclusive one hour strategic consultation, we jointly evaluate your legacy SAP environment. Whether you are transitioning from classic architectures like R/3 or ECC 6.0, we accelerate your SAP S/4HANA migration by streamlining your complete legacy system retirement. We will demonstrate live how to efficiently shut down your original platform while guaranteeing your historical data remains permanently accessible and fully audit ready.
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 Z 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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