Retire your legacy AS/400 system while permanently preserving your critical enterprise data
With AvenDATA, your executive team retains full analytical clarity.
We archive every generation of IBM i and AS/400 architecture, including legacy RPG, COBOL, and CL programming. Our clients span major enterprise industries, from Fortune 500 banking to global manufacturing.
The Challenge
Global enterprises face a significant financial burden from keeping obsolete AS/400 legacy systems running long after they lose operational value. Your executive board is forced to maintain these dead platforms strictly to guarantee IRS audit readiness and SEC regulatory compliance. This mandatory retention creates serious operational vulnerabilities, including:
- Hardware maintenance costs grow every year for infrastructure that no longer serves your business
- You continue paying for maintenance contracts on technology your team no longer uses
- Software licensing fees accumulate for abandoned legacy components
- Your internal IT engineers are tied up supporting outdated systems instead of driving modernization initiatives
- Unsupported legacy environments carry significant security risk, lacking modern cyber defenses
- Accessing historical data requires navigating complex, outdated system environments
The Bottom Line: Your organization is spending significant capital each year maintaining infrastructure that provides no operational value, while your competitors modernize.
Proven Legacy Archiving Platform
Built on over 17 years of IT modernization expertise
We have continuously refined our proprietary AS/400 archiving methodology over 17 years of engineering work. We have developed our technical approach through thousands of successful legacy system retirements for demanding global enterprises.
Through our proven procedures, we have successfully addressed complex technical inquiries, regulatory audits, and legal demands for our clients. Every data extraction is built to remain fully traceable and transparent under scrutiny.
Our proprietary ViewBox software is a powerful and reliable research system for everyday enterprise use. It remains stable during federal audits and provides on-demand access to your archived data across your organization.
ViewBox is actively deployed across more than 50% of Fortune 500 companies, reflecting our platform’s stability, flexibility, and execution capability at the enterprise level.
ViewBox operates as a global standard for enterprise archiving, deployed across Europe, Asia, and North America.
Your Critical AS/400 Analytics Survive
Fully operational reporting within ViewBox
We do not simply extract your raw AS/400 data during your legacy system retirement. Our engineering team ensures you maintain analytical clarity and permanent data traceability within our proprietary ViewBox software environment.
This comprehensive intelligence preservation includes:
- Precise reconstruction of all critical standard reports and business analytics
- Deployment of customized, client-specific reporting, including proprietary internal software logic and data lists
- Permanent archiving of essential financial documents for full report transparency, including invoices, purchase orders, and ledger entries
Long before your modernization project begins, we align with your team to determine which reports you will need for future IRS tax audits, internal financial investigations, or SEC regulatory compliance. You benefit from our decades of experience executing complex AS/400 retirements across major industries.
Within ViewBox, you retain the ability to research, analyze, and evaluate these insights for decades, independent of your original legacy hardware.
Whether you’re responding to federal audits, legal discovery, or internal financial reviews, you have instant access to structured, filterable reports — all while eliminating IBM i licensing fees and legacy system overhead.
Accelerated Project Timelines and Measurable Financial Impact
Measurable ROI even for the largest-scale AS/400 architectures
Executing your legacy AS/400 system retirement typically requires one to six months, depending on the complexity of your architecture and data volume. Because we deploy a structured, standardized methodology, we efficiently archive even complex enterprise systems with strong data security.
As an example, our engineering teams have migrated enterprise environments exceeding multiple terabytes of raw data, preserving every critical report and customized program, with full IRS audit-ready procedural documentation.
By deploying our proven project methodology, your organization realizes meaningful financial savings, including the elimination of legacy IBM i software licensing fees, reduced database and operating system costs, and lower infrastructure and engineering overhead.
Across most of our global deployments, clients achieve a measurable return on investment within 12 months, driven by reductions in legacy software licensing, infrastructure, and engineering costs.
AS/400
Enterprise Architecture
Analysis
The first step of every successful legacy system retirement is a detailed analysis of your existing architecture. This assessment forms the foundation for our projection of your modernization timeline and project costs.
Our engineering team evaluates every technical and operational parameter, including:
- Strategic access vectors to your legacy AS/400 environment
- The nature, structural complexity, and scale of your DB2/400 database
- The scope and business relevance of your current reports and applications
- Specific technical customizations, such as proprietary in-house software logic and legacy system interfaces
We synthesize these results into a fixed-price proposal that gives your leadership financial certainty and strategic confidence throughout the modernization process.
AS/400
Project Archiving Execution
Following our architectural analysis, we launch your legacy system retirement with a structured, milestone-driven deployment phase.
We begin with an executive alignment meeting to finalize technical and organizational parameters. From there, our engineering team assumes full operational control:
- Establish secure enterprise access to your legacy AS/400 environment
- Execute reliable extraction and secure migration of all critical data
- Reconstruct essential standard reports and customized analytics
- Generate complete, IRS audit-ready procedural documentation for every phase
Our project managers lead you through the modernization process with minimal involvement required from your internal IT team.
As we conclude the project, we conduct structured testing and secure formal executive acceptance, ensuring every byte of your legacy data is fully archived, accurate, and traceable for future regulatory compliance.
AS/400
Modernization Results
Upon final delivery, we permanently secure every critical database table, financial document, and custom report from your legacy AS/400 system into our ViewBox platform.
ViewBox is a web-based enterprise research system that provides your authorized teams with secure, traceable access to your archived data for decades after retiring your legacy hardware.
Our core value lies in the precise reconstruction of standard reports and customized analytics, allowing your legal, financial, and tax teams to conduct evaluations and maintain operational clarity without legacy IBM i system access.
Once ViewBox is implemented and you have secured executive acceptance, you can decommission your original legacy architecture.
At project completion, you receive comprehensive documentation covering:
- The exact methodology of your data migration
- The structure and organization of your archived data
- The execution of every testing and final acceptance phase
Furthermore, we record every step of your archiving initiative, from initial extraction through final decommissioning, in our secure Jira workflow platform, giving your governance teams and auditors verifiable proof of how your retirement was executed.
ViewBox Enterprise Research Platform
Unlocking the strategic value of your archived AS/400 intelligence
AvenDATA delivers ViewBox as a high-performance research and analytics platform engineered to provide seamless access to data from decommissioned legacy systems.
Through an intuitive web-based interface, ViewBox empowers your team to locate, analyze, and use archived information independent of your original AS/400 hardware.
ViewBox ensures your critical enterprise data:
- Remains fully usable for decades after your legacy system retirement
- Stays available for regulatory compliance and IRS audit readiness
- Maintains a structured format for internal investigations and external audits
One of our most powerful features is the ViewBox automated data retention engine. By applying your corporate retention policies, our software executes rule-based deletion of legacy records once they exceed legal or internal requirements, supporting compliance with standards such as GDPR without manual intervention.
The platform runs on certified cloud infrastructure with continuous security and performance testing. For organizations with specific security mandates, ViewBox also deploys within your own on-premises environment.
Ready for the
next step?
During a confidential, one-hour strategy session, we’ll evaluate your legacy AS/400 architecture, whether you rely on RPG, COBOL, CL, or proprietary in-house software logic.
We’ll show you exactly how to execute your legacy system retirement while preserving your critical business analytics, including:
- Alignment on your database architecture, data migration approach, and reporting requirements
- A live demonstration of our ViewBox enterprise platform
- A breakdown of how we reconstruct your customized analytics and user-defined reports
- A clear projection covering project duration, resource requirements, and investment
Total transparency from day one.
Every proposal we deliver is built on clearly defined, fixed pricing — guaranteeing no budget overruns or hidden renegotiations. Engineering quality, reliability, and a strong return on investment remain our focus.
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