
LEGACY SYSTEMS: YOUR STRATEGIC RISK OR OPPORTUNITY?
THE CLOCK IS TICKING FOR SAP ECC LEGACY SYSTEMS!
2000k
pre-defined business objects tailored to SAP
1500k
retired SAP
systems
3000k
successful
implementations
GAME-CHANGING
Gartner describes JiVS IMP as “game-changing”
and “ideal for application retirement”.
TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR SAP ECC LEGACY SYSTEMS
Archiving or retiring your legacy SAP ECC system NOW isn’t just a technical imperative; it’s a strategic business decision.
Stop draining resources, reduce your operational IT costs, avoid security risks – while remaining FULLY compliant and ensuring unlimited continued access to data for audit, tax, compliance and operational needs.
It is no wonder that customers such as AXA, Bühler, Campbell’s Soup, Commerzbank, GE, Holcim, Mercedes-Benz, Phillips 66 and Volkswagen trust JiVS IMP to meet these challenges.
THE CHALLENGE: WHY YOU SHOULD RETIRE/ARCHIVE
YOUR SAP ECC SYSTEM NOW?
FINANCIAL IMPACT
- Average cost of maintaining a single legacy system: $30 million annually
- 60-80% of IT budgets consumed by legacy system maintenance
- Only 16% of IT budgets allocated to innovation
SECURITY RISKS
- 36% of global businesses face increased security vulnerabilities
- Attackers only need 72 hours to turn patch into an attack
- IT teams spend up to 25 hours weekly on patch management
COMPLIANCE
- GDPR penalties up to €20 million or 4% of annual turnover
- Increasing regulatory complexity for data management
- Legacy systems need to comply with regulations and legal requirements
STRATEGIC CONSEQUENCES
- Increased operational complexity
- Limited resources for digital transformation
- Innovation hampered by manual labour
THE SOLUTION: WHY APPLICATION RETIREMENT WITH JIVS IMP
historical data
Simplify, cleanse and modernize your IT landscape
ARE YOU GOING TO ACT NOW OR PASS THE BUCK?
Our approach is trusted by customers, partners, analysts and other industry leaders.












WHY LEADING GLOBAL COMPANIES CHOOSE JIVS IMP
The JiVS IMP is the leading platform for information management and System Retirement, offering unparalleled benefits:
ZERO RISK
Our technical Approach guarantees zero data loss, as we always transfer 100% of the data from the legacy system to JiVS. Our automated platform ensures complete data migration with minimal need of business department involvement, providing a comprehensive completeness report.
PROVEN
With more than 2,000 pre-defined business objects tailored to SAP and the in-depth knowledge gained from more than 1,500 retired SAP systems and a total of more than 3,000 successful implementations, JiVS IMP has a proven track record in complex enterprise environments.
FAST
Our cutting-edge technology enables rapid data transfer of up to 30 TB per day from legacy systems to JiVS IMP, significantly reducing project timelines. Data access configuration is streamlined through the activation of pre-existing business objects, typically completed within a day. These business objects includes all SAP ECC logic, ensuring a seamless, easy and user-friendly application experience post-migration.
USER FRIENDLY
Our highly automated platform has an intuitive and easy-to-use Web-User interface designed to effortlessly tackle complex business challenges. For seamless integration, we can also set up access to historical data directly from SAP S/4HANA. This simplicity allows your team to focus on strategic initiatives rather than endless training and technical complexities.
COST-EFFECTIVE
By retiring legacy systems, you cut IT operational costs by up to 80% and eliminate hidden expenses associated with outdated infrastructure. Our platform allows you to consolidate multiple systems, reducing licensing fees, maintenance costs, and the need for specialized legacy expertise.
FLEXIBLE
JiVS IMP offers highly automated "any-to-any" data migration across SAP and non-SAP systems. It offers flexible deployment options including private cloud, public cloud, and on-premises. This unified solution replaces multiple tools, streamlining processes for migration, data quality enhancement, retention management, and M&A activities, thereby creating significant operational synergies
CERTIFIED
JiVS IMP ensures full regulatory compliance as it is certified for commercial and tax law (IDW PS880) as well as information security ISO 27001 and ISO 27017. The platform has also undergone extensive penetration testing. These certifications underline JiVS IMP's commitment to data integrity, security and regulatory compliance.
Ready to Transform Your Legacy IT?
RETIRE/ARCHIVE YOUR SAP ECC SYSTEM WITH JIVS IMP

Certified, audit-proof, and secure
Data is stored on a certified, modern platform instead of different legacy systems. As a result, legal retention requirements, regulations (GDPR/CCPA), and deadlines can be met because data is stored in its original state in an audit-proof manner and deletion requirements can be met.

Reduce your IT operating costs by up to 80%
100% of data is stored securely and compliantly together with its business context, allowing both SAP and non-SAP legacy systems to be decommissioned. This can reduce IT operating costs by up to 80%, resulting in a rapid and significant reduction in complexity and risk

100% data and system Transparency
Our automated analysies provided fast, detailed insights into your SAP landscape. With a single click, we map business object volumes, custom objects, document types, and system complexity. The platform visualizes all tables, estimates JiVS IMP sizing, and offers simulation capabilities – reducing analysis effort to the push of a button while ensuring 100% data transparency.

One Platform, Multiple Use Cases
Simplify data migration from SAP and non-SAP systems with a single, easy-to-use platform that performs highly automated data migration, data quality improvement, data reduction, active rightsizing, retention management, and M&A (carve-in/carve-out) scenarios.
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Frequently asked question
Application Retirement or Archival refers to the process of discontinuing or decommissioning software applications, systems, or platforms that are no longer needed, relevant, or cost-effective. This process involves data migration, archival, or termination to optimize resources and reduce operational expenses. The goal of Application Retirement is to manage and preserve historical business information while reducing costs and increasing efficiency
- Data and Document Transfer: Exporting/importing data and documents from legacy IT systems to a centralized platform.
- Configure Data Access: Configuring access to the transferred data and documents.
- User Validation: Conduct comprehensive training, perform user acceptance testing, and obtain formal sign-off to ensure system readiness and user satisfaction before full implementation.
- Shutdown of Legacy Systems: Safely shutting down the legacy systems once the data transfer is verified and complete.
- Retention Management: Managing the information lifecycle effectively, including adding specific retention rules.
JiVS offers several advantages over alternative approaches:
- Data lakes: While data lakes can store large amounts of data, they lack business context and are difficult for non-specialists to navigate. JiVS preserves data in its business context, making it easily accessible for regular user
- Virtualization or "lift and shift": This approach merely moves existing problems to a new environment. It still requires maintaining legacy expertise, software licenses, and security patches. JiVS eliminates these ongoing costs and complexities
- Simply shutting down systems: This risks non-compliance with data retention laws and loss of valuable historical information. JiVS ensures data remains accessible and compliant for 10-30+ years.
- Do nothing: Continuing to operate legacy systems consumes up to 70% of IT budgets and poses increasing security risks. JiVS can reduce operational costs by up to 80% while enhancing security
JiVS IMP preserves the complete business context of legacy systems through "Business Objects" - sophisticated data containers that capture not just raw data, but the entire semantic meaning, relationships, and business logic of the original system. These Business Objects can be reused across different use cases, ensuring that critical business information remains accessible, interpretable, and valuable long after the original system is retired. With over 6,000 standard content objects available, JiVS IMP provides a flexible and comprehensive approach to maintaining data integrity and business context.
No, JiVS IMP can retire any kind of source system. While we specialize in SAP retirement, our solution is versatile and can handle a any SAP or non-SAP legacy system.
The timeline depends on the size and complexity of your systems. For example, retiring a SAP ERP system with a 1 TB database typically takes approximately 1-2 months from start to finish, depending on data volume and resource availability.
We provide comprehensive information and support to help you make a compelling case. This includes Calculating quotes, handing out case studies, and if needed, we can arrange discussions with reference customers who have successfully implemented JiVS IMP. We also offer proof of concept opportunities to demonstrate the value in your specific context
JiVS IMP ensures data remains accessible and compliant for 10, 20, even 30+ years. It meets legal requirements for audits, tax purposes, and product liability while providing easy access for business users. Our solution is designed to adapt to evolving compliance standards, including GDPR/CCPA requirements.
JiVS has a robust and flexible approach to partnerships for application retirement projects. We maintain an extensive global network of over 180 active partners, enabling us to work effectively across multiple geographies and industries.
Our partnership model is designed to be inclusive and adaptable. We're open to working with a wide range of partners, including (Global) system integrators, Regional) IT service providers, Cloud platform providers and Industry-specific consultants.
This approach ensures that we can offer our customers the best of both worlds - JiVS' specialized Application Retirement expertise combined with our partners' local knowledge and industry-specific experience.
If you have a preferred partner, we're happy to work with them. We can train and support your chosen partner to ensure they're fully equipped to implement JiVS IMP effectively.
JiVS IMP offers ultimate flexibility with deployment options tailored to your specific IT infrastructure needs. Whether you prefer Public Cloud for scalability, Private Cloud for enhanced security, or On-Premise for complete control, our solution adapts seamlessly. This versatile approach ensures you can retire legacy systems without disrupting your existing IT landscape, providing a deployment strategy that matches your unique business requirements, compliance standards, and technological ecosystem.
Our partnership model is designed to be inclusive and adaptable. We're open to working with a wide range of partners, including (Global) system integrators, Regional) IT service providers, Cloud platform providers and Industry-specific consultants.
This approach ensures that we can offer our customers the best of both worlds - JiVS' specialized Application Retirement expertise combined with our partners' local knowledge and industry-specific experience.
If you have a preferred partner, we're happy to work with them. We can train and support your chosen partner to ensure they're fully equipped to implement JiVS IMP effectively.
JiVS IMP stands out as a game-changer in sustainable data management, offering a comprehensive suite of features designed to minimize environmental IT footprint, including reducing CO2 emissions, while maximizing operational efficiency. To find out more, click here.
Our partnership model is designed to be inclusive and adaptable. We're open to working with a wide range of partners, including (Global) system integrators, Regional) IT service providers, Cloud platform providers and Industry-specific consultants.
This approach ensures that we can offer our customers the best of both worlds - JiVS' specialized Application Retirement expertise combined with our partners' local knowledge and industry-specific experience.
If you have a preferred partner, we're happy to work with them. We can train and support your chosen partner to ensure they're fully equipped to implement JiVS IMP effectively.
Our automated process guarantees 100% data transfer, verified by comprehensive completeness reports and rigorous validation checks.
Our partnership model is designed to be inclusive and adaptable. We're open to working with a wide range of partners, including (Global) system integrators, Regional) IT service providers, Cloud platform providers and Industry-specific consultants.
This approach ensures that we can offer our customers the best of both worlds - JiVS' specialized Application Retirement expertise combined with our partners' local knowledge and industry-specific experience.
If you have a preferred partner, we're happy to work with them. We can train and support your chosen partner to ensure they're fully equipped to implement JiVS IMP effectively.
Primarily technical and SAP basis support. Minimal business involvement is needed for training and user acceptance testing.
Yes, financial statements remain accessible post-retirement.
We typically require the SAP release version, database size, and information about existing documents or archived data (ADK). For SAP ECC systems, we offer an automated analysis through our One Click Cockpit.