Decommission SAP entirely without SAP ILM
Retain, understand, and leverage your enterprise data with AvenDATA.
From legacy R/3 and ECC 6.0 to modern HANA, we archive all SAP generations and industry solutions including Bank Analyzer and IS-U modules. You gain high-performance IRS audit readiness — no SAP ILM required.
The Challenge
Obsolete SAP environments can quietly drain your budget — generating ongoing operating costs while delivering no operational value. At the same time, IRS retention requirements and SEC compliance regulations prevent your team from simply switching these servers off.
SAP presents Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) as its official archiving solution. However, deploying SAP ILM can introduce significant operational challenges, since it remains deeply tied to your legacy architecture. It requires a fully active SAP environment and substantial custom configuration before deployment.
Your enterprise faces critical operational threats when attempting to manage legacy systems using SAP ILM.
Complex custom engineering becomes a massive roadblock because your team must manually configure endless database tables, strict deletion rules, and complex security permissions.
Massive implementation delays drain your valuable internal engineering resources and expensive external consulting budgets for several consecutive months.
Relentless ongoing SAP license fees and expensive maintenance contracts continuously bleed your capital even during your legacy system retirement.
Outdated physical hardware and obsolete software versions expose your entire corporate network to severe security vulnerabilities.
Information Lifecycle Management strictly binds your historical data to an obsolete SAP environment and completely destroys your architectural flexibility.
AvenDATA offers a proven alternative that accelerates your IT modernization. Our web-based platform removes the need for custom engineering, delivering a faster, more affordable archiving solution. You gain IRS audit readiness and long-term data accessibility, independent of your original SAP architecture.
The battle-tested alternative to SAP ILM
Forged through seventeen years of elite enterprise project experience
AvenDATA has spent seventeen years refining a practical, audit-ready alternative to SAP ILM. We’ve optimized our platform across hundreds of global deployments, helping enterprises meet departmental requirements, IRS audits, and legal inquiries with confidence.
At the core of our methodology is the ViewBox research platform. It replaces complex SAP ILM architecture with a well-structured, web-based interface built for strong performance and SEC compliance. Your organization gains fast, intuitive access to historical data exactly when your legal team needs it for regulatory review.
More than half of Fortune 500 companies rely on ViewBox for stable, flexible legacy data management at the enterprise level. From North America to Europe and Asia, our proven solution supports secure IT modernization for technology leaders worldwide.
Your critical SAP analytics live on as highly interactive corporate reports
inside the ViewBox enterprise platform
Even after your legacy system is retired, your corporate analytics stay active and accessible. AvenDATA migrates your enterprise data so you can continue using this intelligence through ViewBox — without ongoing SAP ILM licensing costs.
Here’s the operational value our engineering team delivers:
- We reconstruct your core SAP standard reports and key business analytics.
- We implement your custom Z Reports.
- We securely archive associated documents, including invoices and order receipts, to maintain full operational traceability.
Long before your project kickoff, we strategically align with your executive board to determine exactly which specific reports your enterprise requires to dominate strict tax requirements and complex legal obligations. Our elite engineering experience from hundreds of successful legacy system retirements across every major global industry flows directly into your exact implementation.
Inside the ViewBox platform these interactive reports remain permanently available for complex research and aggressive auditing for decades. You retain full analytical capability with no ties to your original SAP architecture and no ongoing software licensing fees.
Whether facing an aggressive IRS audit or a complex internal compliance review, ViewBox empowers your executive team to maintain absolute operational control. You get a fully audit-ready, filterable research system that’s available whenever you need it.
Achieve rapid project execution and a measurable return on investment
We deliver this even across highly complex SAP environments
Retiring a legacy architecture typically takes one to six months, depending on system complexity and data volume. Our structured project methodology helps your enterprise archive SAP landscapes efficiently.
Our engineering team has migrated SAP environments exceeding thirty terabytes of data, including standard analytics, custom Z Reports, and full document archiving.
Your executive board will recognize significant financial savings across several key areas:
- You eliminate obsolete SAP and enterprise content management licenses.
- You retire outdated databases and operating systems.
- You reduce ongoing maintenance and infrastructure costs.
- You reduce the drain on your internal engineering resources.
In most deployments, our clients see a full return on investment in under twelve months, thanks to reduced operating costs and the removal of unnecessary system loads.
SAP
System Analysis
The foundational step of your IT modernization project demands a granular architectural analysis of your current SAP environment. This rigorous evaluation provides the exact blueprint required to accurately forecast your implementation timeline and calculate your total project investment.
We meticulously audit your technical landscape and your strategic business intelligence to capture every critical detail.
- You receive a strict evaluation of all current access protocols and security gateways within your SAP system.
- You gain complete visibility into your exact database architecture, structural framework, and total data volume.
- You uncover the precise operational scope and strategic relevance of every existing enterprise report.
- You secure a complete inventory of all custom engineering modifications including your proprietary Z Reports and complex external interfaces.
We package these vital technical insights into a binding fixed-price proposal. This guarantees your executive leadership achieves maximum planning security and absolute financial predictability before making any final deployment decisions.
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Project Archiving
Following your comprehensive system analysis, our elite engineering team initiates your actual IT modernization project through a highly structured and aggressively efficient methodology driven by clearly defined executive milestones.
During a strategic kickoff meeting, we align with your internal team to establish all essential organizational and technical parameters. From this exact moment, our dedicated engineers take over the heavy lifting for your enterprise.
- We securely establish direct system access protocols.
- We seamlessly export and migrate all relevant enterprise data.
- We flawlessly reconstruct your critical business analytics and proprietary Z Reports.
- We thoroughly document every single operational step to guarantee absolute IRS audit readiness.
Your total project duration strictly depends upon your specific architectural complexity and typically ranges between one and six months. Our senior project managers aggressively drive your entire migration process to guarantee a completely frictionless transition that requires absolutely minimal effort from your internal engineering department.
Before finalizing the deployment, we jointly execute structured testing and acceptance phases. This validation process confirms your enterprise has successfully archived every byte of corporate data with full accuracy and regulatory compliance.
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Final Archiving & Deliverables
Upon the successful completion of your project, we securely transfer all relevant database tables, corporate documents, and enterprise analytics from your legacy SAP environment directly into our ViewBox software platform.
ViewBox operates as an advanced web-based research system that empowers your authorized personnel with fast, secure, and fully traceable access to your archived corporate intelligence for decades following your legacy system retirement.
You gain real operational value as our engineers reconstruct your standard analytics and custom Z Reports. Your enterprise retains the ability to run tax audits and legal discovery, independent of ongoing SAP software licenses.
Following the successful enterprise implementation and final executive acceptance of your ViewBox environment, you can permanently shut down your original SAP architecture.
At your final project closure, you receive comprehensive project and procedural documentation that maps every technical step, ensuring IRS audit readiness across three key categories.
- We outline the precise technical methodology of your massive enterprise data transfer.
- We define the exact architectural structure of your permanently archived corporate content.
- We document the rigorous testing protocols and your final executive acceptance phases.
Our engineering team meticulously logs every individual step of your archiving journey from the initial data export to the ultimate source system deletion directly within our highly secure Jira tracking platform. This complete operational history provides full transparency for external auditors and regulatory compliance teams whenever it’s needed.
Seamlessly integrate your ADK archive files
and your critical DART extracts
Beyond the complete retirement of your legacy SAP environment, our elite engineering team seamlessly incorporates your existing historical data to guarantee absolute regulatory compliance.
- ADK archive files: We flawlessly embed your previously archived information stored within ADK files to guarantee this critical data remains permanently accessible for your executive team.
- DART data extracts: Our battle-tested platform fully processes your existing DART extracts so your enterprise can execute vital tax audits long after your final SAP shutdown.
Intelligently leverage your archived SAP enterprise data
The elite software and research platform engineered by AvenDATA
AvenDATA empowers your global enterprise with a highly performant web-based research platform specifically engineered to secure immediate access across all your retired SAP architectures and obsolete legacy systems.
Your authorized personnel use an intuitive web interface to find and analyze historical data quickly — without relying on your original SAP architecture or costly SAP ILM software.
You secure massive operational advantages through ViewBox.
- You maintain highly intuitive and completely secure access to your archived corporate data for decades following your final legacy system retirement.
- You empower your legal team with fully audit-ready research capabilities to flawlessly execute complex internal reviews and strict external financial audits.
- You deploy highly structured data management protocols to immediately resolve aggressive IRS inquiries and complex corporate litigation discovery requests.
ViewBox delivers a supreme compliance advantage through automated rule-based data deletion. Our platform completely eliminates tedious manual engineering by automatically destroying obsolete intelligence exactly according to strict SEC retention mandates and rigorous global privacy standards.
Our software architecture and underlying cloud infrastructure hold recognized global security certifications. Independent security experts test our platform on an ongoing basis to help ensure high availability and strong protection of your sensitive corporate data.
Ready for the
Next Step?
During a complimentary one-hour executive consultation, we strategically analyze your current SAP environment, whether you run ECC, S/4HANA, or legacy R/3 platforms. We demonstrate live exactly how your global enterprise can efficiently retire your system while keeping your corporate intelligence fully available and actionable, with no dependency on SAP ILM.
AvenDATA offers a powerful alternative to SAP ILM — built for intuitive usability, predictable implementation, and independence from ongoing SAP software licenses.
- We establish precise executive alignment regarding your exact data structure, your massive data migration, and your current analytical reporting landscape.
- We provide an exclusive live demonstration of our battle-tested ViewBox archiving and research platform.
- We reveal exactly how our elite engineering team flawlessly replicates your central SAP reports including your financial accounting, material management, and sales distribution modules.
- We deliver a highly reliable executive projection detailing your precise engineering effort, your exact implementation timeline, and your total financial investment.
Total transparency from day one.
Our engineering proposals are built on clearly defined fixed prices — no hidden fees, no costly renegotiations. We center our entire corporate philosophy around delivering supreme technical quality, absolute operational reliability, and a highly equitable price-to-performance ratio for your enterprise.
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