SAP GTS Archiving —
Secure your global trade data, preserve essential reports, and maintain full regulatory compliance with AvenDATA.
Standard SAP GTS vendor support ends on December 31, 2026. AvenDATA enables you to securely archive your global trade records, manage compliance obligations, and transition to SAP GTS Edition for SAP S/4HANA on schedule.
The SAP GTS enterprise challenge
organization running legacy SAP GTS environments beyond the December 31, 2026 end-of-support date face ongoing operational and financial risk. From January 2027, SAP will offer only limited, fee-based custom maintenance in place of standard support.
To meet regulatory retention requirements, organization must keep legacy systems running after end-of-support — without receiving security patches, legal content updates, or technical improvements.
This forced retention creates severe operational liabilities.
- You must constantly maintain or completely replace obsolete hardware and legacy infrastructure.
- Ongoing third-party support contracts add significant unplanned cost.
- Legacy infrastructure diverts your internal engineering resources away from strategic initiatives.
- Without security patches, unresolved vulnerabilities accumulate over time.
- Scaling and system administration become increasingly complex without vendor support.
The cumulative result is avoidable cost: organization continue to fund licensing, infrastructure, and support for systems that no longer serve an active business function.
A proven enterprise archiving platform
for SAP GTS
AvenDATA has developed and refined our SAP GTS archiving platform over 17 years, building on experience across dozens of legacy system decommissioning projects.
As the December 2026 vendor support deadline approaches, our platform enables your organization to securely archive global trade data, meet compliance requirements, and retain long-term data accessibility — without the ongoing cost of operating an unsupported system.
Our structured methodology supports data retrieval for tax authority inquiries, audits, and legal proceedings, with full traceability throughout. ViewBox is designed for both routine compliance access and large-scale data retrieval across the organization.
organization across Europe, Asia, and North America rely on ViewBox to retain access to their archived SAP GTS data and meet applicable legal retention requirements.
Your critical SAP GTS intelligence lives on as interactive enterprise reports
inside the ViewBox software
Even after your legacy SAP GTS system is retired, all critical evaluations and business reports remain fully accessible inside ViewBox — ready for research, audit, and compliance use at any time.
Our core enterprise capabilities:
- Reproduce all standard SAP GTS evaluations and business performance reports in ViewBox.
- Support custom reporting requirements, including Z reports and international trade statistics.
- Securely archive all associated regulatory documentation, including export declarations, customs paperwork, and global business partner records, to ensure full data traceability.
Before your IT modernization begins, we strategically align with your leadership team to determine exactly which reports you need to maintain compliance with tax authority requirements, global customs regulations, and internal business analytics. We draw on experience from SAP GTS decommissioning projects across a wide range of industries.
Inside ViewBox, these reports remain available for research, analysis, and strategic review. You achieve full independence from your original SAP GTS infrastructure and eliminate the ongoing cost of SAP licensing fees.
Whether you are responding to tax authority inquiries, internal investigations, or legal proceedings, ViewBox provides clearly structured, filterable data to support those processes. You maintain full corporate visibility and ongoing regulatory compliance.
Rapid project execution and measurable return on investment,
even for complex
SAP GTS environments
Retiring your legacy SAP GTS platform typically requires just one to six months, depending on your exact system complexity, data volume, and unique global trade operations. Our standardised methodology enables efficient archiving of large and complex SAP GTS environments.
Our engineering teams have migrated SAP GTS environments exceeding 30 TB, including Z reports, global trade documentation, and full audit trails for customs compliance.
In the majority of our deployments, clients recover the total project investment within 12 months, primarily through savings on licensing, infrastructure, and personnel.
Following decommissioning, most clients achieve measurable cost savings across SAP licensing, database and operating system fees, external maintenance contracts, and internal infrastructure.
SAP
System analysis
Every decommissioning engagement begins with a technical assessment of your existing SAP GTS architecture. This analysis forms the basis for an accurate project timeline and a fixed-price proposal.
Our engineering teams evaluate both the technical architecture and the business context of your environment, including:
- Secure access pathways and current operational protocols for your enterprise SAP platform.
- Database architecture and total data volume.
- The operational relevance and volume of your existing enterprise reports.
- All custom system modifications, including Z reports and external integrations.
We consolidate these findings into a fixed-price proposal. This transparency eliminates budget risk and gives your leadership team the confidence to proceed with your SAP GTS decommissioning.
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Enterprise project execution
Following the assessment, our engineers initiate the decommissioning project according to a structured plan with defined milestones.
We begin with a kickoff meeting to align your team on all technical and operational requirements. From that point, our engineers take responsibility for execution. Our commitment is to decommission your legacy SAP GTS platform safely, transparently, and completely.
Our precise execution protocol:
- Establish access controls and security protocols for all system connections.
- Rapidly extract and seamlessly migrate all critical SAP GTS enterprise data.
- Reconstruct all standard evaluations and customized Z reports.
- Securely archive all corresponding global trade documentation and critical customs paperwork.
- Produce detailed technical documentation for every project phase to support future tax authority and regulatory audits.
Our project managers oversee the process end-to-end, coordinating all technical activities. The project is structured to minimise demands on your internal IT team.
To finalize the retirement, we conduct rigorous testing and user acceptance phases alongside your team. This validation confirms that all archived data is complete, accurate, and ready for regulatory review.
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Final enterprise archiving deliverables
Upon completion of your IT modernization project, all relevant tables, documents, and reports from your legacy SAP GTS platform are seamlessly migrated into our proprietary ViewBox enterprise software.
ViewBox is a web-based research platform that provides authorised stakeholders with secure, traceable access to archived data for the duration of the applicable retention period.
Your immediate advantage is complete data continuity. We reconstruct all standard evaluations and customized Z reports, including international trade statistics and customs analyze. Your team can conduct tax audits and legal reviews without dependency on SAP licensing.
Following the successful deployment and final executive approval of your ViewBox platform, you can permanently shut down your obsolete SAP GTS architecture.
At the close of the engagement, you receive comprehensive procedural documentation covering every phase of the migration to support future tax authority audits, specifically detailing:
- The architecture and methodology of your enterprise data extraction.
- The digital mapping of your archived data inside ViewBox.
- The rigorous technical testing and final executive acceptance phases.
Furthermore, every step of your archiving project is documented inside our Jira tracking platform. From initial data export through final system acceptance and source deletion, every action is recorded. This provides complete transparency for external auditors, tax authority inspections, and compliance teams.
Seamless enterprise integration for
ADK archive files and DART data extracts
Beyond the core archiving of your primary SAP environment, we support the migration of your historical tax and compliance data, including:
- ADK archive files: We ingest your previously archived ADK (Archive Development Kit) data directly into ViewBox, ensuring historical records remain accessible and searchable for future legal or audit inquiries.
- DART data extracts: Our solution supports DART (Data Retention Tool) extracts, ensuring you retain the ability to respond to tax authority inquiries and financial audits after system decommissioning.
The ViewBox enterprise research platform
Transform your archived SAP GTS intelligence into a highly strategic corporate asset
AvenDATA developed ViewBox as a dedicated research platform for accessing and analyzing data from retired SAP GTS environments.
Through a web interface, ViewBox enables authorised users to search, analyze, and share archived global trade, customs, and compliance data — with no dependency on the original SAP GTS or ERP system.
ViewBox ensures your enterprise data remains:
- Accessible and usable for the full duration of your legal retention obligations.
- Instantly available through strictly audit-compliant retrieval protocols to satisfy any external legal inquiry.
- Structured and optimised for internal audits, customs reviews, and mandatory regulatory inspections.
The platform includes fully automated data lifecycle management. Based on your configured legal retention periods, ViewBox systematically purges obsolete records once your regulatory or corporate retention mandates expire. This ensures ongoing GDPR and tax authority compliance without manual intervention.
ViewBox and its underlying cloud infrastructure hold multiple internationally recognized certifications and are subject to regular external security audits and performance testing.
Ready to execute your SAP GTS
modernization strategy?
In a focused one-hour executive briefing, we analyze your specific SAP GTS architecture — whether it operates standalone or fully integrated with your SAP ECC (ERP Central Component) and S/4HANA environment. We demonstrate how your organization can efficiently retire this legacy platform while maintaining permanent legal data accessibility, including:
- A strategic alignment on your exact data architecture migration protocols and critical reporting requirements across global customs compliance and enterprise risk management.
- A live demonstration of our ViewBox research platform.
- A technical breakdown of how we reconstruct your SAP GTS evaluations, including export declarations, customs duty summaries, global sanction list screenings, origin-of-goods certificates, Intrastat and Extrastat analytics, and your customized Z reports.
- A reliable projection outlining your project timeline, resource requirements, and total investment.
Total transparency from day one.
Every project proposal is built on fixed pricing with no hidden fees and no downstream renegotiations. Our work is guided by engineering precision, operational reliability, and a commitment to delivering measurable return on investment for your organization.
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