Archive complete technology landscapes and corporate data centers
Secure your enterprise applications and maintain permanent data availability while meeting regulatory compliance with AvenDATA.
We archive your entire technology landscape, regardless of architectural complexity, so your organization can fully retire legacy systems while staying audit-ready.
The Challenge
Historical data housed in retired data centers remains essential, but maintaining reliable access to it becomes harder — and eventually impossible — over time.
Fortune 500 enterprises face this challenge during cloud migrations, mergers and acquisitions, infrastructure modernizations, and data center shutdowns.
Complex technology landscapes often include dozens of interdependent systems built up over decades. These environments still hold mission-critical information required for IRS compliance, legal defense, and day-to-day operations.
Yet continuing to run this legacy infrastructure is expensive, technologically outdated, and dependent on specialized staff — making it unsustainable for long-term growth.
You can’t afford to lose this institutional knowledge. These records need to stay available, traceable, and analyzable, independent of the systems that originally created them.
This is where AvenDATA delivers value: a proven approach to archiving complete corporate data centers and system landscapes.
Proven Legacy Archiving Platform
forged through over 17 years of project leadership
AvenDATA has refined the archiving of entire technology landscapes over 17 years of continuous project work, proven across global projects involving complex applications and interconnected data architectures.
Our engineering teams have archived complete corporate data centers — including every application — for large international organizations, typically completing these projects within 6 to 18 months.
Our methodology, combined with our proprietary ViewBox software, lets your organization securely retain, research, and evaluate even highly complex system landscapes.
You can resolve business questions, IRS audits, and legal inquiries with a structured, fully traceable approach that meets every documentation requirement.
ViewBox has become a trusted enterprise research platform for daily operations, compliance audits, and global data access.
More than half of leading Fortune 500 enterprises currently rely on this solution — a strong indicator of its scalability, stability, and global readiness.
We’re happy to share reference cases across industries and project sizes on request, including both domestic and international deployments.
Your complex system evaluations survive as actionable enterprise reports
inside our proprietary ViewBox platform
We deliver more than a simple extraction of raw data from your retired legacy systems. Your information stays understandable and analyzable through our ViewBox archiving solution.
This includes three core deliverables:
- We reconstruct your cross-platform reports and key performance indicators.
- We build custom evaluations for your specialized, proprietary applications.
- We provide audit-ready archiving for financial invoices, accounting records, and purchase orders.
We work with your team before project kickoff to define which applications and reports your organization needs long term, ensuring compliance with IRS documentation requirements, business analyses, and legal obligations.
Your information stays accessible in ViewBox for decades after your original data center is retired.
You get permanent, structured, and filterable access to resolve SEC audits, internal inquiries, or legal disputes — independent of your retired source systems.
Rapid execution, measurable ROI
even across complete system landscapes
You can retire entire corporate data centers or complex technology landscapes typically within 6 to 18 months, depending on system volume, data architecture, and interface complexity.
Our structured, field-tested methodology helps your organization archive legacy application environments while staying compliant. We migrate entire data centers — including proprietary applications and large data volumes — directly into ViewBox, reconstructing your custom reports, internal developments, and system interfaces alongside complete technical documentation for IRS audit readiness.
You gain economic benefits almost immediately: eliminating legacy software license fees, cutting maintenance budgets, reducing hosting and energy costs, and freeing your internal teams from managing outdated infrastructure.
This reduction in ongoing technology costs typically delivers a return on investment in under one year for most of our projects.
Analysis
of your existing technology landscape
The first step in any data center retirement is a thorough analysis of your current technology infrastructure — providing the foundation needed to estimate your timeline, resources, and costs.
- We evaluate both technical architecture and operational business factors
- We identify every system access pathway, including database interfaces, data exports, and APIs.
- We assess the type, volume, and complexity of every application slated for archiving.
- We map the structural integrity, storage volume, and internal consistency of your data.
- We inventory existing reports, internal developments, custom modules, and third-party integrations.
- We identify hidden dependencies across your landscape, including shared databases and synchronized processes.
We turn this into a transparent, fixed-price proposal — giving your team planning certainty and your board confidence.
Enterprise Archiving
of your complete technology landscape
After the analysis phase, we begin the core archiving phase using a structured, milestone-driven methodology.
We hold a launch meeting with your technology leaders and department heads to define every technical, organizational, and regulatory requirement.
- We take ownership of project execution from this point forward, minimizing disruption to daily operations.
- We establish secure access into your applications using direct database connections, data exports, and APIs.
- We export, validate, and securely transfer your relevant enterprise data.
- We reconstruct your key business evaluations and reports.
- We archive your original financial records, legal documents, and transaction data.
- We document every project phase to support IRS audit readiness.
Our project managers guide your team through the retirement process with minimal demand on your internal resources.
We close the project with structured testing and final acceptance, confirming data completeness, technical accuracy, and legal traceability.
Archiving Results
Transferring complete technology landscapes with full audit readiness
After project completion, our team migrates every relevant data point, financial record, custom report, and architectural structure from your retired systems into ViewBox.
ViewBox is a secure, web-based research platform that gives authorized staff and regulators fast, compliant, traceable access to archived data for decades after retirement — independent of your original applications.
We reconstruct standard and custom reports across your technology landscape, keeping your business evaluations, tax audits, and legal analyses fully functional without needing access to your retired systems.
Once ViewBox is implemented and accepted, you can shut down the affected legacy systems and decommission your data center.
You’ll receive complete project documentation covering three areas:
- The exact methodology and technical protocols used for migration.
- The architectural structure and access pathways for your archived data.
- Confirmation of all technical testing and final acceptance.
Every workflow step is documented for audit readiness within our internal ticketing system, from initial analysis through final acceptance and compliant deletion of the original source system.
This transparency lets third parties — including tax examiners, financial auditors, and internal compliance teams — verify the diligence of your archiving process at any time.
ViewBox Software and Enterprise Research Platform
Transforming archived technology landscapes into actionable corporate intelligence
AvenDATA built ViewBox as a web-based research platform to access data from retired applications, system landscapes, and decommissioned data centers.
Your staff use an intuitive web interface to discover, analyze, and distribute archived data, independent of your original legacy systems.
ViewBox provides three core capabilities:
- Your data stays understandable, filterable, and usable for decades after retirement.
- Your team has continuous, audit-ready access to every archived asset.
- Your cross-platform data stays available for compliance reviews and regulatory audits.
One key feature is fully automated, traceable data deletion — letting you run compliant purges based on retention schedules and legal requirements, with minimal manual effort, while meeting SEC and privacy regulations.
ViewBox runs on certified cloud infrastructure with ongoing security testing, and can also be deployed on-premises depending on your security requirements.
Ready for the
next step?
Schedule a 60-minute consultation to evaluate your AS/400 architecture — from classic RPG and COBOL structures to your custom applications.
We’ll show you how to retire your legacy systems while preserving access to your most valuable data. This briefing includes four deliverables:
- We align your data structures, migration pathways, and reporting requirements.
- We provide a live demonstration of the ViewBox platform.
- We outline our methodology for replicating your business evaluations and reports.
- We provide a transparent estimate of timeline, resources, and investment.
Total transparency from day one:
We base our projects on fixed-price contracts with no hidden fees or renegotiations. We focus on engineering quality, reliability, and economic value — and apply this guarantee across even the most complex system landscapes.
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