Application Retirement / Archiving

Still Running on Legacy
Just to Access Your Data?

It's Costing You Millions.

JiVS IMP decommissions legacy ERP and enterprise systems — preserving full data access, reducing IT operational costs by up to 80%, and ensuring ongoing compliance long after shutdown.

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Reduction in IT operational costs

Audit-proof compliance, data access & security

SAP systems decommissioned

Successful implementations

TRUSTED BY GLOBAL LEADERS IN MANUFACTURING, FINANCE, AND ENERGY

What JiVS IMP Solves

Three problems.
One platform.

Application retirement / archival addresses every dimension of the legacy ERP problem — data access, financial cost, and regulatory compliance — in a single, certified platform.

Archive & Access

Data access after system shutdown

100%

Audit-proof access to historical data

What happens to 15 years of transactional history when the old system goes dark? JiVS IMP preserves every business object — structured, searchable, and accessible — without keeping the legacy system alive. Whether you're retiring SAP ECC, Oracle EBS, or any other enterprise platform, the data challenge is the same.

Archived data doesn't just sit there — once governed, it becomes structured and query-ready for analytics and AI.

Cost Reduction

Legacy maintenance is a compounding liability

Up to 80%

Reduction in IT operational costs

Every month a legacy system runs after migration is money spent on licence fees, infrastructure, security patching, and specialist headcount — invisibly and indefinitely. ERP decommissioning eliminates that cost. AXA Investment Managers saved €1M over ten years by retiring a single system — approximately one-third of their SAP running costs in that division.

Every retired system compounds savings — licence, infrastructure, and specialist costs disappear from the budget for good.

Compliance & Governance

Compliance obligations outlive the system

100%

Compliance & governance

GDPR, GoBD, SOX, and sector-specific retention requirements do not end at shutdown. They continue for years — sometimes decades. JiVS IMP maintains audit-proof access and automated retention management for 10, 20, even 30+ years. Bosch retired 70 SAP systems with 30-year GDPR retention and IDW PS 880 certification — at enterprise scale.

Automated retention schedules, legal hold, and IDW PS 880-certified audit trails — handled by the platform, not your team.

Why JiVS IMP

The leading platform for application retirement / archival.

JiVS Information Management Platform (IMP) ships with 3,000+ pre-built SAP business objects and is certified to IDW PS880, ISO 27001, and ISO 27017. Data lakes lack business context and lift-and-shift only relocates the problem — JiVS IMP eliminates it.

Zero Risk

100% of data transferred from legacy to JiVS, with a comprehensive automated completeness report.

Fast

Up to 30 TB per day from legacy systems to JiVS IMP. Pre-built business objects activated in a day.

Proven

+2,000 SAP business objects, +1,500 retired SAP systems, +3,000 successful implementations globally.

User-friendly

Intuitive Web UI, with optional native access to historical data from inside SAP S/4HANA.

Cost-effective ROI

Cut IT operating costs by up to 80%. Eliminate legacy licensing, maintenance, and specialist overhead.

Flexible

Any-to-any migration across SAP and non-SAP. Private cloud, public cloud, or on-premises.

Sustainable

Decommission obsolete systems to cut energy use and reduce IT carbon footprint.

Certified

IDW PS880, ISO 27001, ISO 27017. Penetration-tested. Built for regulated industries.

Future-Ready

A clean, cloud-ready core for S/4HANA or any modern ERP. Zero vendor lock-in.

Industry Recognition

GAME-CHANGING

Gartner describes JiVS IMP as "game-changing" and "ideal for application retirement".

Customer Success

Outcomes worth measuring.

From DuPont to Volkswagen — global leaders trust JiVS IMP to retire legacy systems on time, on budget, and audit-proof.

Industrial / Fortune 500

17 Legacy SAP Systems retired in just 12 months

After years of mergers, divestitures, and a corporate split, DuPont was managing 17 outdated SAP systems—kept alive only for audit and compliance. Powered by JiVS IMP and Accenture, all 17 were retired in a single year.

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Financial Services

€1M saved while preserving 30+ years of regulatory data

AXA decommissioned legacy SAP and Microsoft Dynamics systems and retained decades of financial data in a fully readable, compliant format—turning a cost center into a strategic win.

AXA Investment Managers

Manufacturing

Legacy IT costs cut by 80%, S/4HANA accelerated

The global leader in food and materials processing leveraged JiVS IMP to decommission legacy SAP, simplify their move to S/4HANA, and unlock long-term compliance and agility.

BühlerRead story

Energy

10M+ documents centralized. 80% lower operating costs.

After acquiring Alstom, GE Power centralized decades of engineering data into a legally compliant, audit-ready platform—serving 50,000 employees with faster access and major savings.

GE PowerRead story

Oil & Gas

Aging SAP retired. Audit access preserved.

Canadian oil & gas leader Cenovus decommissioned legacy SAP while ensuring long-term compliant access to business-critical data—simplified IT, reduced risk, full transparency.

Cenovus EnergyRead story

Midstream Energy

Powering down legacy. Scaling up efficiency.

One of the largest midstream energy companies in North America transferred historical SAP data into a secure, compliant, searchable platform—dramatic IT cost reduction included.

Energy TransferRead story

Automotive

Driving SAP simplification at automotive scale

Volkswagen leveraged JiVS IMP to retire legacy SAP landscapes, preserve full historical data access, and accelerate the path to a streamlined, compliant target architecture.

VolkswagenRead story

Automotive

Legacy retired, compliance secured.

Star Automotive Hellas decommissioned legacy systems with JiVS IMP, ensuring full audit and tax compliance while drastically reducing operational IT costs.

Mercedes-Benz (Star Automotive Hellas)Read story

Key Scenarios

Where application retirement / archival applies.

The ERP decommissioning challenge arises at multiple inflection points. JiVS IMP is purpose-built for each one.

SAP ECC Retirement

SAP ECC end-of-maintenance in 2027 is a decision point, not just a deadline. Organisations moving to S/4HANA face an immediate question about what happens to their ECC historical data. JiVS IMP retires legacy SAP environments up to 20× faster while keeping 100% of historical data accessible and audit-proof.

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Non-SAP & Multi-Platform Retirement

Oracle EBS, JD Edwards, Infor, Baan, Navision, Mainframe — and any combination of them. Whether the system being retired is SAP ECC or any other enterprise platform, the data challenge is the same. A single platform handles the full legacy landscape.

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M&A, Carve-Out & Divestiture

DuPont retired 17 SAP systems in 12 months following a corporate split. GE consolidated 53 legacy ERP systems post-acquisition. Mergers and divestitures create the most urgent forcing function for ERP decommissioning — and the most complex data separation requirements.

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Archive · Govern · Activate

Archived data doesn't have to stay dormant.

Once legacy ERP data is archived and governed by JiVS IMP, it becomes structured and query-ready — a foundation for analytics, compliance automation, and AI initiatives. Historical data that was previously locked inside decommissioned systems can feed SAP Joule, Databricks, OpenAI, and other platforms directly, without duplication or custom connectors.

Explore the AI-ready data layer

From Retirement to Activation

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Legacy ERP data

SAP · Oracle · Mainframe

JiVS IMP archival

3,000+ pre-built business objects

GovernedStructuredCompliant

Audit

Analytics

IDW PS 880 certifiedISO 27001 & ISO 27017Penetration-testedGDPR · GoBD · SOX · CCPASAP-certifiedRecognised by Gartner

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Let's talk about your legacy systems

Tell us about your application landscape. We'll show you how JiVS IMP can retire it — fast, secure, and audit-proof.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

Application Retirement is the process of decommissioning software applications, systems, or platforms that are no longer needed or cost-effective—while preserving historical business information for audit, tax, and compliance.

JiVS Information Management Platform (IMP) preserves data in business context, eliminates legacy overhead, and reduces operating costs by up to 80%. Data lakes lack business context, lift-and-shift just relocates the problem, shutting systems down risks compliance, and doing nothing consumes up to 70% of IT budgets.

1. Data and document transfer to the JiVS platform. 2. Configure data access. 3. User validation, training and sign-off. 4. Shutdown of legacy systems. 5. Retention management with rule-based lifecycle.

Through Business Objects—containers that capture raw data plus the semantic meaning, relationships, and business logic of the original system. 6,000+ standard content objects are available out of the box.

Yes. JiVS IMP is source-agnostic. Oracle, JD Edwards, Infor, Baan, Navision, Mainframe and more are all supported.

JiVS IMP keeps data accessible and compliant for 10, 20, even 30+ years—aligned with GDPR, CCPA, GoBS and industry-specific mandates.

Public cloud, private cloud, or on-premises. The deployment model adapts to your security, sovereignty, and compliance requirements.

By decommissioning obsolete systems, JiVS reduces energy consumption and lowers your IT carbon footprint—turning archival into a sustainability win.

Still Running on LegacyJust to Access Your Data?