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How Legacy Systems Work and Their Architecture
May 24, 2024How Legacy Systems Work and Their Architecture Legacy systems have long been the backbone of operations in the IT and banking sectors. Despite the emergence...
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Legacy Systems in Digital Era:
In today’s era of digital transformation, businesses face unprecedented challenges and opportunities. The rapidly advancing technological change forces organizations to rethink their business models, modernize...
SAP Carve-Out Guide: Definition, Process, Benefits
In the ever-evolving landscape of enterprise solutions, SAP systems have emerged as indispensable tools for businesses seeking seamless integration and efficiency. However, as organizations grow...
System Decommissioning: A Strategic Guide
System decommissioning is the strategic manner of retiring outdated or out-of-date computer systems, encompassing hardware, software programs, and related infrastructure. This deliberate and systematic approach...
20 Reasons why legacy ERP systems must be archived and data should not be deleted
20 Reasons why legacy ERP systems must be archived and data should not be deleted: Legal Requirements: Certain industries and countries have regulations that require...
IT Mergers and Acquisitions: The ABCs of a Successful Integration
IT Mergers and Acquisitions: The ABCs of a Successful Integration Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have become a common strategy in the ever-evolving landscape of the...
Mastering IT M&A and Carve-Outs: Addressing Pain Points with Practical Solutions
Mastering IT M&A and Carve-Outs: Addressing Pain Points with Practical Solutions Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and carve-out processes in the IT industry offer exciting prospects...
Modernizing Legacy Systems: A Strategic Guide for IT Company Owners
In the ever-evolving landscape of information technology, legacy systems are a constant presence, offering both a solid foundation and significant challenges. For IT company owners,...
The importance of legacy systems is steadily increasing
The importance of legacy systems is steadily increasing Legacy systems are becoming increasingly important. For over 15 years, AvenDATA has specialized in archiving legacy systems...
Ten Key Questions with Emanuel Boeminghaus
On Long-Term Commitment to Legacy System Archiving. With approximately 230 specialists, AvenDATA focuses exclusively on archiving legacy systems worldwide on a daily basis. Why is...
How to Decommission Legacy Applications?
Legacy applications can pose a significant obstacle to business continuity and a company's digital transformation. They are outdated software applications that often no longer adhere...
Liquidation and Insolvency in the IT Sector: Understanding the Impact
Liquidation and Insolvency in the IT Sector: Understanding the Impact In the intricate realm of the IT sector, concepts such as liquidation and insolvency take...
Handling of IT Mergers and Acquisitions:Harmonization of Legacy Systems and Carve-Outs
Handling of IT Mergers and Acquisitions: Harmonization of Legacy Systems and Carve-Outs In the dynamic landscape of business, the strategies of mergers and acquisitions (M&A)...
SAP is increasing the maintenance fees
SAP is increasing the maintenance fees. As reported by Handelsblatt on August 8, 2023, SAP maintenance is expected to become more expensive. Updates for software...
SAP System Decommissioning: Streamlining Operations and Safeguarding Legacy Data
In today's fast-paced business environment, organizations constantly strive to optimize their technology landscape and streamline operations. As part of this process, SAP system decommissioning has...
How do you define a legacy system?
A legacy system is typically an older, outdated, or obsolete software or hardware application that is in use within an organization or company. It is...
Carve-out only works with experience
AvenDATA has been separating data from various systems within the scope of carve-outs for 15 years - mainly from SAP, Oracle, and Navision systems, but...
IT Carve-Out Checklist: Streamlining Successful Transitions
In today's dynamic business landscape, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures have become commonplace. During these transformative events, one critical process that organizations undertake is an IT...
Why carve-out is a success factor in separation of IT systems
Recently, the economy is witnessing one of its toughest times. Due to the pandemic, many companies are taking drastic steps. Many companies, for whom IT...
Roadmap For Successful Carve-Out Projects
Roadmap For Successful Carve-Out Projects By Avendata Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are seen as a key factor to growth in business. It seeks to acquire...
IT Carve-outs – Challenges & Success Factors
When carving out corporate units, the focus lies not only on restructuring existing system landscapes, but also on data – as IT forms the backbone...
Top 5 data areas during a SAP system decommissioning
Here are the top five areas that must not be overlooked during a SAP system decommissioning. These areas form the basis for being able to...
We have asked ChatGPT – OpenAI what it thinks about it legacy systems
We have asked ChatGPT - OpenAI what it thinks about it legacy systems Here is the answer: Legacy systems are IT systems that have been...
Most IT Projects Fail:
75% of Projects Fall Short of Goals
Most IT Projects Fail: 75% of Projects Fall Short of Goals IT projects are not always successful—such is the price of innovation. Yet, depending on...
Legacy systems: Growing pressure in the upper
mid-market
Legacy systems: Growing pressure in the upper mid-market As digitalization and dependence on electronic communication increases, so does the pressure to renew outdated IT systems....
Overcome archiving challenges with AvenDATA
In today’s scenario, there is a large amount of information floating around the digital landscape. Due to this ocean of information, organizations are experiencing a...
Simplifying IT Application Decommissioning
An IT strategy is one of the most vital components for any organization as it defines a broader and well-defined plan. This plan inculcates a...
ViewBox – best solution for remarkable archiving
Organizations experimenting with new technological advancements without realizing the importance of business transformation are always in a fix for perpetual solutions. Such cases are the...
AvenDATA: Bridging the Application Decommissioning Gap
AvenDATA: Bridging the Application Decommissioning Gap Most organisations make a big mistake by updating or replacing existing applications without retiring their older counterparts. There are...
AvenDATA’s solution fosters business development
Consider that there is an immediate requirement to archive a legacy system, or that the client needs an urgent integration of a new solution to...
AvenDATA’s expertise in optimized carve-outs
Introduction : It is often observed that two organizations come together through an acquisition or merger to increase their overall value rather than function as...
AvenDATA – your best archiving partner.
Working with data is inevitable, and managing it effectively necessitates a significant amount of effort not only to maintain it but also to consistently grow...
The “5-fold” advantage of using AvenDATA’s archiving solution
Every organization strives to update and grow by revising or modifying the business processes. But there are certain systems that obstruct the potential of the...
AvenDATA’s unbeatable approach to archiving legacy systems
Legacy systems are often essential within companies, and that is indeed one of the main reasons for the wide use of such systems. Eventually, companies...
Carving successful solutions with AvenDATA carve-outs
Over the past few years, there has been an increased concern among the companies in carving out the non-core business units from the parent companies....
What is legacy systems?
Understanding Legacy Systems Legacy System Definition: A legacy system, in the realm of information technology (IT), refers to any outdated, often obsolete, or aging software...
A complete guide to Application Retirement
Information technology (IT) applications are now being retired and replaced by newer ones that are more efficient, user-friendly, and cost effective. This is a good...
Carve-Out: A Complete Guide to Definition, Types, Process, Examples, Benefits
A carveout is a subsidiary of a larger company, which is legally and operationally independent from the parent company. A carveout is a business unit...
Data Retention Tool – Data Protection at its Best
The View Box provides the functionality of a Data Retention Tool, also known as DART. The Data Retention Tool helps users to meet the legal...
Save Time with Viewbox
There can be a requirement where a company requires all the documents and the data available in a View from the archived system. The client...
Protect your Legacy data as easy as never before
The View box provides the functionality of Data Encryption. Data encryption helps to hide the data present in the database from the end user. Data...
Protect your Legacy data/Information with Viewbox
The View box was designed for the sole purpose of archiving and maintaining the data. View box is intended to protect older information in a...
Document Management is now Simplified
The View box provides documentation functionality (Documentation Library) which helps our clients to securely manage and share their documents within the organization based on rights,...
Well-known and international
companies rely on AvenDATA
Viessmann English
Over the past 10 years, we have successfully archived and ultimately decommissioned over 20 legacy systems of various kinds with AvenDATA. The diversity of systems ranged from SAP and Microsoft Dynamics to Sage, SharePoint, and industry-specific applications.
Turnover:
4 Bn. €
Employee:
14,500
Industry:
Heating technology
Last change: 2024
Allnex English
We faced the challenge of archiving legacy data from a Microsoft Dynamics AX System Version 2009. To solve this problem, we enlisted the services of AvenDATA, a dedicated provider with expertise in such matters. We are truly grateful for their invaluable assistance.
Turnover:
2.2 Bn. €
Employee:
4000
Industry:
Chemical
Last change: 2024
ECE English
We successfully implemented our Microsoft Dynamics AX archiving project in collaboration with AvenDATA. We initiated with a pilot project, aiming to subsequently archive additional legacy systems using the same solution.
Turnover:
1.1 Bn. €
Employee:
3400
Industry:
Real Estate
Last change: 2024
Vestas English
To meet business and legal regulations we have in collaboration with Avendata archived and established a more standardized way of ensuring data quality for legacy systems in Vestas.
Turnover:
16 Bn. €
Employee:
29,500
Industry:
Wind energy
Last change: 2024
Trelleborg English
We have successfully archived a legacy system in the USA with the provider AvenDATA. Currently, we are in the process of implementing additional projects with the service provider to replace further legacy systems.“
Turnover:
3 Bn. €
Employee:
16,701
Industry:
Aircraft/Automotive
Last change: 2024
Nordsee English
Due to a system shutdown in the SAP environment, we decided to use the archiving service provider AvenDATA. With them, we were able to successfully archive our SAP system including RE-FX data.
Turnover:
122 Mm. €
Employee:
6000
Industry:
Food
Last change: 2024
LMS
We were able to successfully archive AS400 data in the archive software ViewBox provided by the service provider AvenDATA GmbH.
Turnover:
360 Mm. €
Employee:
1750
Industry:
Automotive
Last change: 2024
Envista
In order to meet our legal retention requirements, we were faced with the challenge of archiving legacy SAP systems. We have realized this together with AvenDATA.
Turnover:
2.3 Bn. €
Employee:
12,000+
Industry:
Medical
Last change: 2024
Swarovski
We were faced with the challenge of archiving HR and ERP data from two SAP systems due to a system changeover. Here we decided to implement with AvenData!
Turnover:
3.5 Bn. €
Employee:
32,000
Industry:
Jewellery
Last change: 2023
Granovit
We were faced with the challenge of archiving data from 2 legacy systems. We successfully mastered this with the service provider AvenDATA.
Turnover:
250 Mm. €
Employee:
250
Industry:
Animal Feed Industry
Last change: 2024
EWR Energy
Due to a system conversion, we were faced with the challenge of archiving data in a way that would allow us to shut down our legacy system. For this purpose, we chose the service provider AvenDATA GmbH, which specializes in legacy system archiving.
Turnover:
870 Mm. €
Employee:
540
Industry:
Energy
Last change: 2024
Adient
Together with our partner AvenDATA, we have been able to realise different SAP carve-out projects in the last few years as a result of company acquisitions and sales. Here, either parts of the SAP systems in the form of company codes or entire SAP systems were archived.
Turnover:
17 Bn. €
Employee:
86,000
Industry:
Manufacturing
Last change: 2024
MTS Group
Together with our partner AvenDATA, we were able to successfully archive the data from a legacy SAP system.
Turnover:
449 Mm. €
Employee:
700
Industry:
Technology
Last change: 2024
masa
We have successfully archived applications in the area of AS/400 and proALPHA with the company AvenDATA.
Turnover:
111 Mm. €
Employee:
500
Industry:
Manufacturing
Last change: 2024
Nehlsen AG
We were able to successfully archive our legacy system with the company AvenDATA.
Turnover:
692 Mm. €
Employee:
3000
Industry:
Disposal
Last change: 2024
KSB
We were able to successfully archive our legacy system with the company AvenDATA.
Turnover:
2.25 Bn. €
Employee:
15,713
Industry:
Mechanical Engineering
Last change: 2024
Putzmeister – USA
Together with AvenDATA we were able to successfully decommission 2 SAP legacy systems.
Turnover:
764 Mm. €
Employee:
3071
Industry:
Mechanical Engineering
Last change: 2024
Zublin – USA
Together with AvenDATA, our partner for archiving topics, we were able to successfully decommission legacy systems.
Turnover:
4.2 Bn. €
Employee:
14,000
Industry:
Construction
Last change: 2024
vitos – USA
We were able to successfully archive one of our legacy systems with the IT service provider AvenDATA.
Turnover:
700 Mm. €
Employee:
11,000
Industry:
Medical Center
Last change: 2024
Etatec
We were able to successfully archive our SAP legacy system with the company AvenDATA.
Turnover:
2.6 Bn. €
Employee:
11,800
Industry:
Technology
Last change: 2024
Plansee
Together with the company AvenDATA GmbH we were able to successfully archive the data of an SAP ERP system including attached documents.
Turnover:
2.02 Bn. €
Employee:
11,174
Industry:
Metal Processing
Last change: 2024
lbbw
We were confronted by the challenge of archiving a central order control system and a configuration management system with software artifacts. Other projects had successfully archived legacy systems with AvenDATA before. After a common archiving project, we still have access to the data via viewbox and are able to finally shut down the two legacy systems.
Balance sheet sum:
282 Bn. €
Employee:
9893
Industry:
Banking
Last change: 2024
EagleBurgmann
Together with AvenDATA we managed to successfully archive Microsoft Dynamics legacy system across different countries within Europe. The Avendata viewbox meets our storing requirements from a business and audit perspective. The project was conducted in a professional and timely manner.
Turnover:
858 Mm. €
Employee:
5800
Industry:
Industrial Sealing
Last change: 2024
Sana Kliniken
We chose the service provider AvenDATA to archive our industry-specific legacy system.
Turnover:
3 Bn. €
Employee:
34,600
Industry:
Medical Center
Last change: 2024
Leipa
Due to the joint archiving project with avendata we are able to finally switch off our AS/400 based legacy system.
Turnover:
850 Mm. €
Employee:
1700
Industry:
Packaging
Last change: 2024
Greiner
Together with AvenDATA, we were able to successfully manage our carve out from an SAP system.
Turnover:
2.27 Bn. €
Employee:
11,015
Industry:
Conglomerate
Last change: 2024
Klingel Gruppe
After a provider selection process, we chose the provider AvenDATA to archive our HOST. The archiving was successfully completed according to our specifications and the specifications of our auditor
Turnover:
1 Bn. €
Employee:
2200
Industry:
Multichannel Distance Commerce
Last change: 2024
Stromnetz Berlin
Due to a short-term shutdown of our old billing-system, we needed a reliable and convenient solution at short notice – the Avendata Viewbox made this available to us.
Turnover:
1.14 Bn. €
Employee:
1509
Industry:
Energy
Last change: 2024
Nord-lb
As a result of a successful IT project with AvenDATA, we were able to archive and finally replace a complex core banking system.
Balance sheet sum:
154.012 Bn. €
Employee:
4900
Industry:
Banking
Last change: 2024
E.ON
Due to the archiving project with AvenDATA we are in a position to finally switch off our legacy system.
Turnover:
77.4 Bn. €
Employee:
69,733
Industry:
Energy
Last change: 2024
TX Group
We have successfully archived part of our SAP systems with AvenDATA and were able to decommission them. Other legacy systems (SAP, Cognos) will follow.
Turnover:
957.4 Mm CHF
Employee:
3600
Industry:
Media
Last change: 2024
GALERIA – USA
By selecting a provider for archiving our various legacy applications, the decision was made in favour of AvenDATA. Together we were able to successfully archive the data in such a way that we continue to have the relevant data available in an archiving system, but can switch off the legacy systems at the same time.
Turnover:
4.49 Bn. €
Employee:
18,000
Industry:
Retail
Last change: 2024
BITMARCK
We successfully archived our Wilken accounting system with AvenDATA. This allowed us to decommission the system without losing access to our legacy data.
Turnover:
350 Mm. €
Employee:
1600
Industry:
Insurance
Last change: 2024
IMCD
In an international context, an ERP system had to be replaced in several countries and archived in an audit-proof manner. Both the time and knowledge component were decisive.
Turnover:
3.44 Bn. €
Employee:
3740
Industry:
Chemical Distribution
Last change: 2024
Strabag
In the past few years, we were able to archive various legacy systems resulting from acquisitions and system consolidations together with AvenDATA, then switch them off and save on IT costs for the continued operation of legacy systems.
Turnover:
15.3 Bn. €
Employee:
73,606
Industry:
Construction
Last change: 2024
BauerMedia Group
With AvenDATA’s ViewBox, we were able to successfully archive an old financial accounting system and then switch off the legacy system.
Turnover:
2.07 Bn. €
Employee:
13,226
Industry:
Media
Last change: 2024
Sonepar
Due to a system integration, we were able to successfully archive a legacy system for one of our subsidiaries with AvenDATA and then switch it off.
Turnover:
23 Bn. €
Employee:
45,000
Industry:
Electronic Industry
Last change: 2024
Alpiq
Alpiq has already carried out several projects for the legacy data archiving of SAP data with the help of Avendata. The motivation was different: sometimes it was a subset of an SAP system that was in a sold part of the company in their SAP system, which are now for auditing purposes with the Avendata, another time it was about a whole legacy SAP system to dissolve to drastically reduce operating costs.
Turnover:
7.18 Bn. €
Employee:
1200
Industry:
Electronic Industry
Last change: 2024
Mapple Bank -USA
At the time, we chose the IT service provider AvenDATA to archive our core banking system and an AS/400-based platform.
Balance sheet sum:
3.7 Bn. €
Employee:
220
Industry:
Banking
Last change: 2024
Atos
In order to be optimally prepared for a digital external test, Atos Origin has commissioned AvenDATA GmbH with the configuration of their SAP DART module. Atos Origin is perfectly prepared for a digital audit due to this uncomplicated and secure solution.
Turnover:
11.18 Bn. €
Employee:
104,430
Industry:
Global IT Provide
Last change: 2024
Service Partner
Together with AvenDATA we have archived our SAP system.
Balance sheet sum:
187 Mm. €
Employee:
2150
Industry:
Banking
Last change: 2024
Mobene
We were able to use the archiving solution ViewBox to shut down various legacy systems – without losing access to the legacy data.
Turnover:
1.95 Bn. €
Employee:
351
Industry:
Oil Industrie
Last change: 2024
Pepko
In compliance with the regulatory requirements, we were able to successfully and efficiently archive our SAP legacy data last year using the ViewBox archiving solution from AvenDATA.
Turnover:
40.6 Mm. €
Employee:
450
Industry:
Healthcare
Last change: 2024
GRZ
In cooperation with the AvenDATA company, we were able to successfully archive data from an SAP legacy system in a resource-saving manner.
Turnover:
12.0 Mm. €
Employee:
140
Industry:
Software producer
Last change: 2024
Also
In recent years, we have repeatedly been able to archive the most diverse legacy systems using the ViewBox archiving software and then switch them off. The solution could be used for both structured and unstructured data.
Turnover:
12.4 Bn. €
Employee:
4000
Industry:
Global IT Provider
Last change: 2024