SAP GTS Archiving
Secure your trade data, preserve essential reports, and guarantee absolute regulatory compliance with AvenDATA.

Standard vendor support for your legacy SAP GTS environment completely expires in 2026. We empower your enterprise to securely archive all critical global trade records, mitigate severe compliance risks, and drastically accelerate your migration to SAP GTS Edition for SAP HANA.

The SAP GTS enterprise challenge

Global enterprises face a massive financial drain by retaining legacy SAP GTS environments that no longer drive operational value yet continue to consume enormous corporate budgets. This financial crisis accelerates dramatically because standard vendor support completely terminates on December 31 2025. Beginning in 2026 your vendor will only provide severely restricted and highly expensive custom maintenance.
To guarantee absolute regulatory compliance your organization is forced to keep these obsolete platforms running without receiving critical security patches new legal updates or any modern technical advancements.
This forced retention creates severe operational liabilities.
  • You must constantly maintain or completely replace obsolete hardware and legacy infrastructure.
  • You bleed critical budget on expensive ongoing support contracts with external service providers.
  • You trap your elite internal engineering talent on dead platforms instead of driving modern business innovation.
  • You face massive cybersecurity vulnerabilities that escalate rapidly due to the complete lack of standard security updates.
  • You suffer from severe scaling limitations and crippling technical complexity during basic system administration.
The ultimate consequence is devastating. Fortune 500 companies burn massive capital every single year maintaining outdated systems that deliver absolutely zero business value resulting in completely unnecessary operational costs.

A proven enterprise archiving platform
for SAP GTS

AvenDATA has continuously advanced our SAP GTS archiving platform through over seventeen years of exclusive IT modernization expertise and practical refinement across dozens of highly complex legacy system retirements.
As the critical December 2025 vendor support deadline rapidly approaches our platform empowers your enterprise to securely archive your global trade data ensure absolute regulatory compliance and guarantee permanent data accessibility without the massive financial burden of operating an obsolete system.
By leveraging our battle tested methodology we consistently resolve the most demanding technical inquiries strict IRS audits and complex legal evaluations with complete data traceability. Our ViewBox software operates as a highly reliable enterprise research platform that performs flawlessly during both daily compliance audits and massive company wide data retrievals.
From Europe to Asia and across North America major global enterprises implicitly trust ViewBox to permanently secure their critical SAP GTS intelligence and guarantee total legal compliance.

Your critical SAP GTS intelligence lives on as interactive enterprise reports
inside the ViewBox platform

Even after your legacy SAP GTS retirement, your critical evaluations remain fully active. We migrate every piece of your essential global trade, customs, and compliance data and guarantee you can permanently access and analyze this intelligence inside our enterprise software platform ViewBox.
Our core enterprise capabilities:
  • Perfectly reconstruct all standard SAP GTS evaluations and critical business performance reports.
  • Deploy fully customized enterprise reporting, including your highly specific Z reports and complex international trade statistics.
  • Securely archive all associated regulatory documentation, including export declarations, customs paperwork, and global business partner records to guarantee absolute data traceability.
Before your IT modernization begins, we strategically align with your leadership team to determine exactly which reports you need to maintain strict IRS compliance, global customs regulations, and internal business analytics. We leverage our massive enterprise project experience executing SAP GTS retirements across every major global industry.
Inside ViewBox, these critical reports remain instantly available for years of deep research, advanced analysis, and strategic evaluation. You achieve total independence from your original SAP GTS infrastructure and immediately eliminate the massive financial drain of ongoing SAP licensing fees.
Whether you are facing aggressive IRS audits, complex internal investigations, or strict legal inquiries, ViewBox empowers your enterprise with clearly structured and highly filterable data. You maintain total corporate visibility and guarantee permanent regulatory compliance at all times.

Rapid project execution
and a massive return on investment
even for the most 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. We leverage a highly structured and completely standardized methodology to securely and efficiently archive even the most massive enterprise databases.
Our elite engineering teams have successfully migrated SAP GTS environments exceeding 30 terabytes directly into our industry standard archiving platform. This includes flawlessly reconstructing your critical Z reports global trade documentation and complete audit trails for strict international customs compliance.
By executing our battle tested project methodology your organization quickly unlocks an exceptional financial advantage. You instantly achieve massive cost reductions specifically regarding expensive licensing fees for SAP databases operating systems and external maintenance contracts while simultaneously slashing your internal infrastructure and personnel expenses.
For the vast majority of our global enterprise deployments the total return on investment is achieved in under one year. This incredibly fast ROI is driven by highly measurable savings across your enterprise licensing massive legacy infrastructure and elite internal engineering resources.

SAP
 System Analysis

The first step in any SAP system decommissioning is a detailed analysis of your existing system. This analysis forms the basis for accurately assessing project duration and costs as part of archiving your legacy SAP system.
We record both technical and business aspects, including:
  • Access options to the SAP system
  • Type, structure and size of the database
  • Scope and relevance of existing SAP reports
  • Individual specifics such as Z-reports or interfaces
We summarise the results for you in a binding fixed-price offer that provides maximum planning and decision-making certainty.

SAP GTS
 Project Archiving

After completing the system analysis, the actual archiving project begins structured, efficient and with clearly defined milestones.
During a joint kick-off meeting, we clarify all organisational and technical framework conditions with your team. From this point onwards, we take over the majority of tasks for you with the goal of securely, traceably and completely decommissioning your SAP GTS system.
Our services at a glance:
  • Setup of secure system access
  • Export and transfer of all relevant SAP GTS data
  • Reproduction of key standard reports and customer specific Z-reports
  • Archiving of all associated foreign trade and customs documents
  • Complete documentation of all steps for audit compliance
Our experienced project managers guide you through the entire process and ensure smooth execution with minimal resource requirements on your side.
At the end of the project, we carry out structured testing and acceptance phases together to ensure that all GTS data is archived completely, correctly and traceably ready for future audits and internal analyses.

SAP GTS
Archiving Results

After the project is completed, all relevant tables, documents and reports from your SAP GTS system are transferred into our proprietary software solution ViewBOX.
ViewBOX is a web-based research system that provides you and authorised parties with fast, secure and traceable access to archived information for years after the decommissioning of your SAP GTS system.
A key advantage: we reconstruct all essential standard and custom reports (such as Z-reports, foreign trade statistics or customs evaluations), enabling professional, tax related or legal analyses without any issues and without requiring an SAP licence.
Once ViewBOX has been successfully implemented and accepted, the original SAP GTS system can be completely taken offline.
At the end of the project, you receive comprehensive project documentation or procedural records that clearly outline all steps taken including:
  • The type and structure of data transfer
  • The representation of archived content in ViewBOX
  • The structured testing and acceptance phases
Additionally, we document every step of the archiving process in an audit-compliant manner within our Jira ticket system, from data export to final acceptance and any agreed system deletion. This ensures that third parties, such as auditors, can verify at any time that the archiving of your SAP GTS system was carried out correctly.
Consideration of ADK Archive Files
and DART Extracts
In addition to the complete decommissioning and archiving of your SAP system, we also take the following points into account:
  • ADK Archive Files:
    Already archived data in the form of ADK files is integrated by us and remains accessible.
  • DART Data Extracts:
    Our solution supports the processing of DART extracts, ensuring that Tax relevant evaluations remain possible even after the SAP shutdown.
Software and Research System ViewBOX
Making Archived SAP GTS Data Intelligently Usable
With ViewBOX, AvenDATA offers a powerful reading and research system developed specifically for accessing data from decommissioned SAP GTS systems.
Through an intuitive web interface, ViewBOX enables quick retrieval, structured analysis and targeted provision of archived foreign trade, customs and compliance data without requiring access to the original SAP GTS or ERP system.
ViewBOX ensures that your data:
  • Remains understandable and usable for years after decommissioning
  • Is always accessible in an audit-compliant manner
  • Is structured for internal audits, customs and operational reviews
A key feature: ViewBOX includes automated data deletion. Based on defined retention periods, old data can be deleted after expiry of legal or company specific requirements in a traceable and compliant way.
The software and underlying cloud and security infrastructure are multiple times certified and regularly tested against comprehensive security and functional standards, ensuring maximum stability, compliance and data protection.
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Specifically for SAP GTS?
In a one-hour expert consultation, we will discuss your SAP GTS system together, regardless of whether it is standalone or connected to ECC or S/4HANA. We will show you how to efficiently decommission GTS and keep the data available for long-term analysis, including:
In this consultation, you will receive:
  • Coordination on data structure, data transfer and reporting in the GTS context (e.g. Customs Management, Compliance Management, Risk Management)
  • A live demo of our ViewBOX solution
  • An explanation of how we replicate GTS reports (e.g. export declarations, customs balance overviews, sanctions list checks, preference/origin certificates, Intrastat/Extrastat, Z-reports)
  • A reliable estimate of effort, duration and cost
Transparency from the start.
Our project offers are based on clearly defined fixed prices guaranteed without renegotiation. quality, reliability and a fair price performance ratio are our top priorities.

Our project offers are based on clearly defined fixed prices guaranteed without renegotiation. quality, reliability and a fair price performance ratio are our top priorities.

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