SaaS Archiving: Secure Data,
Retain Reports & Ensure Compliance with AvenDATA
From SAP, Oracle, and Salesforce to Microsoft Dynamics 365, Workday, and HubSpot, all the way to ticketing systems like Jira, Zendesk, ServiceNow, and Freshdesk. With our field-tested solution, we empower Fortune 500 companies and global enterprises to completely secure data across modern cloud and SaaS platforms of every type and industry. This spans accounting, CRM, HR, and customer service.
The Challenge
Your SaaS data is mission-critical, yet cancelling subscriptions or switching vendors threatens complete loss of access.
During IT Modernisation initiatives, vendor transitions, system consolidations, or the aggressive cancellation of bloated SaaS subscriptions, organisations consistently face a critical roadblock.
Your modern SaaS solutions, whether CRMs, ERPs, HR platforms, or ticketing systems, still house vital intelligence you absolutely must retain to mitigate litigation risks, ensure regulatory compliance, and drive business strategy.
However, this data is trapped in a third-party cloud. The moment your subscription ends, your access vanishes. Vendor export deadlines are notoriously tight, and you are often forced to pay exorbitant and ongoing subscription fees just to keep your own historical data accessible at all.
Retrieving your essential intelligence becomes difficult or even impossible, even though you must keep it available, analysable, and audit-proof for regulatory readiness.
This is exactly where AvenDATA steps in with our industry-standard platform for SaaS archiving.
SaaS Archiving: A Proven Solution from
Over 17 Years of Project Experience
Our SaaS archiving strategy is built on a proven methodology. For over 17 years, AvenDATA has continuously researched, developed, and refined our approach across thousands of real-world decommissioning projects.
Leveraging this framework, we empower you to reliably and transparently resolve all technical challenges, ensure absolute regulatory readiness, and mitigate litigation risks.
ViewBox, our established archiving platform, has earned a reputation as a highly reliable research system. It supports your daily regulatory compliance needs and secure, enterprise-wide data access.
The deployment of ViewBox in over 50% of Fortune 500 companies is clear proof of its top-tier stability, flexibility, and practical value for your IT transformation.
From North America to Europe and Asia, ViewBox is an actively deployed, field-tested solution used by global enterprises worldwide.
Your Analyses Live on as Actionable Reports
in ViewBox
We do not just extract all data from your SaaS solution; we ensure you can permanently track, analyse, and leverage this critical information within ViewBox.
This includes:
- Rebuilding your essential reports and business evaluations
- Recreating highly customised client-specific reports (including internally developed workflows, dashboards, and lists)
- Archiving all supporting documents required for complete report traceability (such as invoices, work orders, tickets, or customer cases)
Long before your Legacy System Retirement begins, we partner with you to pinpoint exactly which reports and evaluations you must retain for HMRC and regulatory requirements, commercial analysis, or strict compliance obligations. You immediately benefit from our deep expertise gained across countless archiving deployments spanning diverse SaaS solutions, industries, and departments.
Within ViewBox, you retain the power to search, dissect, and run these evaluations completely independent of the original SaaS environment, even years after decommissioning.
Whether you are ensuring regulatory audit readiness, resolving internal queries, or mitigating litigation risks, you have instant, on-demand access to clearly structured and filterable reports, all without paying a single penny in ongoing subscription costs or accessing the obsolete source system.
Accelerated Project Timelines & Massive Economic Value (Measurable ROI)
Even for Complex SaaS Solutions
Depending on system complexity and data volume, your Legacy System Retirement typically takes just 1 to 6 months. By leveraging our highly structured and standardised methodology, we empower you to securely and efficiently archive even the most massive SaaS environments.
We have successfully migrated cloud applications containing multiple terabytes of data, including complex reports, highly customised internal evaluations, and comprehensive documentation straight into our established platform.
Thanks to our field-tested project methodology, you benefit from significant cost savings almost immediately. You dramatically cut expensive subscription and licence costs for legacy SaaS applications, while drastically reducing maintenance, administration, and internal IT overhead.
In the vast majority of our IT transformation projects, your Return on Investment (ROI) is achieved in under one year. This is driven directly by highly measurable savings across subscriptions, infrastructure, and internal bandwidth.
Comprehensive SaaS
System Analysis
The first step in any Legacy System Retirement is a forensic analysis of your existing SaaS infrastructure. This assessment lays the exact groundwork needed to accurately project timelines and costs for your IT Modernisation and SaaS archiving initiative.
We systematically evaluate both the granular technical details and the broader commercial imperatives, including:
- Current access capabilities for your active SaaS platform (like Admin privileges, export rights, or API permissions)
- The architecture and scope of available interfaces and export formats (such as REST API, CSV, XML, and JSON)
- The depth and operational necessity of your active reports, dashboards, and embedded applications
- Unique system quirks, including custom fields, bespoke workflows, specialised API integrations, or supplementary modules
We package these critical insights into a firm, fixed-price proposal. This arms you with ultimate planning certainty and absolute decision-making power to ensure your seamless transition and regulatory readiness.
Executing Your SaaS
Archiving Project
Once the system analysis wraps, your core project launches in a highly structured, efficient way, mapped to clear milestones to accelerate your IT transformation.
During a collaborative kickoff session, we align with your stakeholders on all technical and operational parameters. From this moment on, we take the heavy lifting completely off your plate:
- Configuring secure system and API access gateways
- Exporting and migrating all critical intelligence directly through the vendor interfaces
- Rebuilding your high-value reports and bespoke analytics
- Meticulously documenting every action to guarantee uncompromising regulatory readiness
Our veteran project leaders steer you through the entire lifecycle, engineering a frictionless transition that demands minimal bandwidth from your internal teams.
To successfully close the project, we partner with you to execute rigorous testing and sign-off phases. This verifies that every piece of data is archived flawlessly, comprehensively, and with total traceability to mitigate litigation risks.
The Result of Your
Archiving Initiative
At project wrap-up, every critical table, document, and report from your legacy SaaS solution has been securely transferred into ViewBox.
ViewBox is a powerful web-based research system designed to give you and authorised personnel rapid, secure, and traceable access to archived records years after your IT transformation is complete.
A massive value driver is that we recreate all vital standard and custom reports so you can seamlessly execute commercial, tax, or legal queries without ever needing access to the original SaaS environment again.
Following the successful deployment and sign-off on ViewBox, you can completely cancel your original subscription to drastically slash your ongoing costs.
At completion, we hand over comprehensive procedural documentation that transparently outlines every phase to guarantee absolute compliance readiness, specifically detailing:
- The methodology used for data extraction
- The architectural structure of the archived repository
- The stringent testing and validation phases executed
Furthermore, we meticulously log every granular step of the archiving journey, from initial data export to final approval and ultimate deletion of the source system, in a fully audit-proof format within our internal documentation and tracking system. This ensures that third-party reviewers and auditors can verify exactly how your archiving strategy was executed at any time.
ViewBox Software and Research System:
Making Archived SaaS Data Intelligently Actionable
With ViewBox, AvenDATA delivers a high-performance reading and research platform engineered specifically to unlock data from your retired legacy and SaaS environments.
Through an intuitive web interface, ViewBox empowers your team to rapidly locate, systematically analyse, and securely distribute archived intelligence, completely bypassing the need to access the original SaaS platform.
ViewBox guarantees your data:
- Remains fully transparent and usable long after your Legacy System Retirement
- Is instantly retrievable in a strictly audit-ready format to ensure absolute HMRC compliance
- Is flawlessly structured to support internal audits and external regulatory reviews
A pivotal feature is that ViewBox drives automated data lifecycle management. Based on your defined retention periods, you can systematically and transparently purge legacy data once legal or corporate timelines expire, directly mitigating your ongoing litigation risks.
This proven platform is hosted on certified cloud architecture and undergoes rigorous security and functionality testing. Alternatively, if your internal IT or compliance mandates require it, ViewBox deploys just as smoothly within a secure on-premises environment.
Ready for the
Next Step?
In a highly focused, one-hour expert consultation, we evaluate your specific SaaS environment (whether it is a CRM, ERP, HR platform, ticketing system, or a highly customised cloud application).
We will show you live exactly how to efficiently execute your Legacy System Retirement while guaranteeing your historical data remains permanently actionable to ensure absolute compliance readiness, including:
- Strategic alignment on your data architecture, secure data migration protocols, and your reporting landscape
- A hands-on live demonstration of our established platform, ViewBox
- A detailed deep dive into exactly how we meticulously rebuild your mission-critical reports and bespoke evaluations
- A rock-solid and reliable assessment of your project scope, timeline, and exact costs
Transparency from day one.
Our project proposals are anchored in strict fixed pricing, guaranteed with absolutely zero post-contract renegotiations. Quality, reliability, and exceptional economic value for your IT Modernisation are at the core of everything we do.
Book your complimentary and personalised expert consultation today.
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