Archive your mainframe and secure your data.
Retain critical reports and guarantee corporate compliance with AvenDATA.
We archive legacy mainframe data across all system generations and global industries. We seamlessly secure everything from IBM z/OS and BS2000 platforms to custom enterprise applications spanning from production control to corporate accounting.
The Challenge
Historical mainframe data remains critical, but accessing it is rapidly becoming impossible.
During IT modernization initiatives, data center consolidations, or legacy infrastructure retirements, global enterprises consistently face a critical operational task.
Mainframe environments often consist of enterprise applications grown over decades, featuring complex data structures that still contain relevant intelligence for tax, legal, or business purposes.
However, operating these legacy environments burns capital as physical hardware ages, software licenses expire, and specialized internal engineering knowledge disappears.
Accessing essential historical data becomes dangerously complicated or entirely impossible, even though federal regulations mandate that this intelligence remain instantly available, fully searchable, and completely audit-ready.
This operational risk is precisely where AvenDATA deploys its archiving architecture to permanently secure your legacy mainframe infrastructure.
Proven Legacy Archiving Platform
Built on over 17 years of IT modernization expertise
AvenDATA has continuously researched, developed, and refined enterprise mainframe archiving strategies across dozens of complex legacy system retirements over the past 17 years.
Our proven methodology empowers us to consistently and transparently resolve every complex technical inquiry, IRS tax audit, and high-stakes legal discovery request.
Our proprietary ViewBox software is a proven, industry-standard platform that delivers reliable performance during daily regulatory audits and highly secure enterprise-wide intelligence access.
ViewBox’s deployment across more than 50% of Fortune 500 companies is proof of its stability, flexibility, and operational readiness.
Global enterprises actively trust ViewBox across North America, Europe, and Asia to permanently secure their most critical historical data.
Your Critical Mainframe Analytics Survive
Fully operational reporting within ViewBox
We do not simply extract your raw mainframe data during your legacy system retirement. Our engineering team guarantees that you maintain analytical clarity and permanent data traceability within our proprietary ViewBox software environment.
This comprehensive intelligence preservation includes:
- Precise technical reconstruction of all critical standard reports and complex business analytics
- Full deployment of highly customized, client-specific reporting, including proprietary internal software logic and data lists
- Permanent archiving of every essential financial document required for full report transparency, including invoices, purchase orders, and ledger entries
Long before your modernization project begins, we align with your executive team to determine exactly which reports you require for future IRS tax audits, deep internal financial investigations, or strict SEC regulatory compliance. You benefit directly from our decades of engineering experience executing thousands of complex mainframe retirements across every major global industry.
Within ViewBox, you retain the ability to search, analyze, and evaluate this data for decades, completely independent of your original legacy hardware.
Whether you face federal audits, legal discovery, or internal financial controlling, you maintain instant access to well-structured, filterable reports while completely eliminating exorbitant mainframe software licensing fees and legacy system overhead.
Achieve rapid project execution and a measurable ROI,
even across the largest enterprise mainframes.
Retiring a legacy mainframe typically requires one to six months, depending heavily on your system complexity and data volume. Our standardized and structured engineering methodology allows us to efficiently and permanently secure even the largest enterprise systems.
We have migrated large systems containing multiple terabytes of corporate data, including your customized reports, proprietary software logic, and complete technical documentation, directly into our archiving platform.
Our battle-tested project methodology guarantees that our enterprise clients experience financial savings almost immediately. You will instantly slash exorbitant licensing costs for legacy mainframe software, outdated databases, and obsolete operating systems while completely eliminating expensive hardware maintenance and excessive internal IT overhead.
The vast majority of our global enterprise projects generate a complete return on investment in under a single year. This rapid return is driven by measurable reductions in software licensing, obsolete infrastructure costs, and wasted internal IT resources.
Mainframe
System Analysis
The first step of every legacy system retirement is a detailed architectural evaluation of your existing environment. This analysis establishes the foundation required to project an accurate timeline and total financial investment for archiving your obsolete mainframe infrastructure.
Our engineering team captures both your technical requirements and your business objectives, including several key operational aspects:
- We evaluate all direct-access protocols across your current mainframe architecture.
- We analyze the exact type, structure, and volume of your enterprise databases, including IMS, DB2, and VSAM.
- We determine the complete scope and strategic relevance of your existing financial reports and business applications.
- We document your highly customized proprietary software logic and unique enterprise integration points.
We consolidate these precise technical findings into a strictly guaranteed fixed-price proposal. This delivers planning security and financial predictability for your decision-makers.
Mainframe
Enterprise Archiving
Following your comprehensive system analysis, we launch your legacy system retirement with high operational efficiency and defined technical milestones.
During our strategic project-initiation briefing, we align directly with your internal team to establish all complex organizational and technical requirements. From this point, our engineering team manages your archiving workload across several phases:
- We establish completely secure access protocols directly into your legacy architecture.
- We carry out the extraction and safe migration of your corporate datasets.
- We reconstruct your customized proprietary reports and individual business analytics.
- We document every technical step to ensure your IRS audit-readiness.
Our project-management team guides your organization through this entire modernization process, ensuring reliable execution while eliminating the drain on your internal IT resources.
To finalize your enterprise deployment, we lead structured testing and acceptance phases to permanently verify that your critical corporate intelligence is completely secure, fully accessible, and legally compliant.
Mainframe
Enterprise Archiving Results
Upon project completion, we migrate every critical table, financial document, and analytical report from your obsolete mainframe directly into our proprietary ViewBox software architecture.
ViewBox operates as a secure web-based intelligence platform that guarantees that your authorized personnel maintain rapid, fully traceable data access for decades after your legacy system retirement.
We deliver value by reconstructing all standard reports and customized business analytics. This guarantees that your teams can execute financial analysis, IRS tax audits, and legal discovery, completely independent of the original mainframe environment.
Following the successful deployment and executive acceptance of your ViewBox environment, you can permanently decommission your legacy infrastructure.
At project closure, we deliver procedural documentation that outlines every engineering phase with full transparency.
- We detail the exact methodology of your enterprise data extraction.
- We map the complete technical structure of your archived corporate intelligence.
- We verify the testing and executive acceptance phases.
We track every engineering milestone from initial data export to the final legacy system deletion directly within our secure Jira project-management platform. This transparency ensures that internal executives, external auditors, and federal regulators can instantly verify your complete regulatory compliance at any given time.
Deploy the ViewBox enterprise intelligence platform.
Transform your retired mainframe data into a usable analytical asset.
AvenDATA engineered ViewBox as an enterprise intelligence platform designed to extract lasting value from your retired legacy architecture.
You completely bypass your original obsolete hardware while our intuitive web interface lets your teams quickly find and analyze all historical corporate data.
ViewBox guarantees that your critical corporate data delivers strategic value.
- Your historical data remains fully accessible for decades after your legacy system retirement.
- You ensure IRS audit-readiness with instantly retrievable, immutable financial records.
- You deploy well-structured analytics designed for internal controlling and federal regulatory compliance.
Our platform includes automated data-destruction protocols. ViewBox automatically purges obsolete data based on your defined retention schedules and applicable federal mandates. You maintain full adherence to SEC regulations and federal privacy laws with no manual effort.
We deploy this battle-tested solution across fully certified cloud architectures featuring continuous security testing. You can also deploy ViewBox entirely within your highly secure on-premises environments to satisfy your internal compliance mandates and IT security protocols.
Ready for the
next step?
We will deeply analyze your entire legacy mainframe architecture during a dedicated one-hour executive briefing. We evaluate everything from standard COBOL, PL/I, Assembler, and JCL environments to your highly complex proprietary software developments.
Our senior engineering team will demonstrate exactly how you can efficiently retire your expensive legacy hardware while fully preserving your critical corporate intelligence. This comprehensive strategic briefing includes several critical components:
- We conduct a deep architectural review covering your database structures, extraction vectors, and enterprise reporting requirements.
- We present a comprehensive live demonstration of our proprietary ViewBox enterprise intelligence platform.
- We detail the technical methodology required to reconstruct your proprietary financial reports and individual business analytics.
- We deliver a reliable initial projection regarding your project timeline, total engineering effort, and final financial investment.
Total transparency from day one
We base every enterprise project on strictly guaranteed fixed-pricing models that completely eliminate unexpected budget overruns or hidden renegotiations. We build our entire corporate reputation on delivering engineering quality, operational reliability, and financial value to our enterprise clients.
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