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Speed Meets Scale: How DuPont Retired 17 SAP Systems in Just 12 Months with JiVS IMP and Accenture
Following years of mergers, divestitures, and a corporate split, DuPont, a Fortune 500 global leader in science and industrial innovation, was left managing 17 outdated SAP legacy systems—kept alive solely for audit and compliance. The burden on IT resources, rising cybersecurity risks, and growing technical debt were holding back innovation. In partnership with Accenture and powered by JiVS IMP, DuPont achieved an industry-leading transformation—retiring all 17 systems in just one year. The result: streamlined compliance, significant IT cost savings, reduced environmental impact, and greater agility to drive their global strategy forward.
Millions Saved, Compliance Secured: How AXA Investment Managers Streamlined Legacy Data Access
Maintaining outdated SAP and Microsoft Dynamics systems just to meet compliance needs was draining AXA Investment Managers’ resources—with no end in sight. Faced with 30+ year retention requirements and rising operational costs, AXA needed a smarter way to preserve critical financial data without the burden of legacy infrastructure. This story reveals how AXA decommissioned legacy systems, retained decades of regulatory data in a readable format, and unlocked €1 million in savings—all while staying fully compliant. Explore how JiVS IMP turned a cost center into a strategic win.
Bühler Cuts Legacy IT Costs by 80% with JiVS IMP and Accelerates SAP S/4HANA Transformation
Bühler AG, a global leader in food and materials processing, leveraged JiVS IMP to decommission legacy SAP systems, cut operational IT costs by 80%, and simplify their move to SAP S/4HANA. “Our decision to go with the JiVS platform has certainly paid dividends… It’s a win-win for efficiency and sustainability,” says Vidor Kapy, Head of Business Processes & Applications. With seamless access to historical data and reduced system complexity, Bühler now benefits from long-term compliance, agility, and a clean digital foundation.
GE Power Protects IP and Cuts Operating Costs by 80%
After acquiring Alstom, GE Power faced the challenge of securely managing decades of engineering data across multiple systems and locations. With JiVS IMP, they centralized over 10 million documents into a legally compliant, audit-ready platform—reducing operating costs by 80% and unlocking millions in added value through faster data access for 50,000 employees. JiVS now serves as the backbone of GE’s digital information strategy in the fossil fuel division.
Canadian Energy Giant Retires Legacy Systems Partnering with DMI & DXC
Faced with aging SAP systems that needed to remain accessible for audit and tax purposes, Canadian oil and gas leader Cenovus Energy sought a smarter way to preserve historical data without the cost and complexity of maintaining full legacy infrastructure.
With JiVS IMP, Cenovus successfully decommissioned its legacy SAP systems while ensuring long-term, compliant access to business-critical data. The result? Simplified IT, reduced risk, and full data transparency—paving the way for sustainable digital transformation in the energy sector.
Powering Down Legacy, Scaling Up Efficiency: How Energy Transfer Retired SAP Systems
As one of the largest and most diversified midstream energy companies in North America, Energy Transfer needed to keep historical SAP data accessible for compliance—without carrying the cost of legacy systems. By leveraging JiVS IMP, Energy Transfer decommissioned outdated SAP systems and transferred historical data into a secure, compliant, and searchable platform. The result? Significant IT cost reduction, streamlined audits, and a future-proof data strategy aligned with the company’s rapid growth and operational scale.
Baker Hughes Cuts IT Costs by 80% and Builds a Global Decommissioning Program
Baker Hughes, a global energy technology company, turned to JiVS IMP to decommission legacy applications across diverse systems and jurisdictions. With internal teams trained by Data Migration International, they achieved 80% cost savings while ensuring long-term data access and compliance for over 30 years. “JiVS IMP was the silver bullet—simplifying and accelerating data archiving and application retirement,” says the program lead. Today, JiVS IMP powers Baker Hughes’ global data strategy and significantly reduces business risk.
Clearing the Way for Clean Data: How GasLINE Decommissioned Legacy Systems
As a leading provider of fiber-optic infrastructure across Germany, GasLINE needed to retire outdated SAP systems while ensuring long-term access to regulatory and operational data. Maintaining legacy infrastructure was costly and unsustainable—but simply shutting it down wasn’t an option.
With JiVS IMP, GasLINE archived historical SAP data in a secure, compliant, and easily accessible format—allowing them to fully decommission legacy systems, reduce IT costs, and meet audit requirements with confidence. A clean break from legacy, without losing business-critical insights.
Why Leading Enterprises Trust JiVS
to Retire Legacy Systems
The JiVS IMP is the leading platform for information management and System Retirement, offering unparalleled benefits:
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Reduction in IT Operational Costs
Operate on an OPEX-based model, reducing IT operational costs by up to 80%.
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Decrease in Data Migration Effort
Minimize complexity and risks during migrations. Streamline your SAP S/4HANA migration while ensuring seamless access to historical data.
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100% Audit-Proof Compliance, Security and Access to Information
Meet GDPR, CCPA, GoBS, and industry-specific mandates, and mitigate risks from legacy systems.
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.
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.
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.
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 & Fast ROI
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.
Support Sustainability Goals
By decommissioning obsolete systems, JiVS helps cut energy use and reduce your IT carbon footprint.
Future-Ready Architecture
Build a clean, cloud-ready core for S/4HANA or other modern ERP platforms with zero vendor lock-in.
Modernize Without the Baggage. Archive Smarter.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Application Retirement?
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
Why is retiring legacy systems with JiVS better than alternative approaches?
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
What are the typical steps in the Application Retirement process with JiVS?
- 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.
How do you preserve the business context and logic when retiring legacy systems?
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.
Can I only retire SAP ECC Systems with JiVS?
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.
How does JiVS IMP ensure long-term data accessibility and compliance?
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.
Which partner companies work with JiVS on Application Retirement projects?
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.
Can JiVS IMP be deployed in private Cloud, public Cloud or only on-Premise?
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.
How does JiVS help us regarding sustainable Data Management and reducing CO2 emissions?
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.
What level of customer support is needed for a JiVS IMP system retirement project?
Primarily technical and SAP basis support. Minimal business involvement is needed for training and user acceptance testing.
Are financial statements available after system retirement?
Yes, financial statements remain accessible post-retirement.
What information is needed to retire an SAP system?
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.
How does JiVS IMP help reduce IT operational costs?
JiVS IMP enables up to 80% reduction in IT operational costs by decommissioning legacy systems and securely archiving data. This frees up resources for strategic initiatives and innovation.
How can JiVS IMP ensure compliance with global data localization laws?
JiVS IMP provides automated data replication services, ensuring compliance with regulations in countries like India and China. It enables secure daily data transfers and real-time accessibility for local accounting requirements.
What makes JiVS IMP unique in simplifying SAP S/4HANA migration?
JiVS IMP minimizes migration complexity by transferring only operationally required data to SAP S/4HANA while securely storing historical data for seamless access directly from the new system.
Can JiVS IMP support M&A activities and IT integrations?
Yes, JiVS IMP facilitates “any-to-any” data migration during carve-outs and carve-ins, consolidating systems into a unified platform while maintaining business continuity
What benefits does JiVS IMP offer for legacy data management?
JiVS IMP ensures full accessibility of historical data within its business context, seamless integration with modern systems, and fast ROI through its proven approach.
How does JiVS IMP enable Industry 4.0 transformation?
JiVS IMP consolidates legacy systems into a flexible platform, freeing up resources for IoT technologies and real-time Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) adoption.