Keep your data not the cost: Legacy system retirement
Key Takeaways
⇨ Legacy systems are costly: Aging systems remain in use due to data retention requirements, significantly increasing operational costs and complexity.
⇨ System decommissioning reduces TCO: Retiring mature SAP systems, such as after mergers or S/4HANA migrations, can cut total cost of ownership by up to 80%, leading to savings on licenses, hardware, maintenance, and specialized support.
⇨ Kyano Datafridge is a certified solution for retiring legacy SAP systems: It not only facilitates system decommissioning but also enables cost efficiency, compliance, and long-term user-friendly access to data.
Reduce TCO by up to 80% through system decommissioning
In the age of digital transformation, enterprise IT landscapes are evolving faster than ever. Yet many organizations still find themselves tethered to outdated legacy systems—kept alive not for their business value, but for the data they contain. These systems quietly consume resources, introduce risks, and slow down innovation.
When a mature SAP system is no longer needed – for example due to a merger or acquisition, or the migration to S/4HANA – it is time to put it into retirement. System decommissioning decreases the total cost of ownership (TCO) by up to 80%, delivering long-term savings. It helps cut expenses such as license fees, maintenance of outdated hardware, and the need for specialized expertise, while also minimizing business risks. Meanwhile, the necessary data remains accessible for analysis and auditing purposes.
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System decommissioning with Kyano Datafridge – a safe way to shut down legacy systems
Kyano Datafridge is a lean solution for decommissioning legacy systems and a part of our comprehensive data migration and management platform SNP Kyano. It supports mass archiving and moves your obsolete data to a cost-effective storage solution – with features like retention management, legal hold, data destruction and flexible, transparent access to data and documents. We recommend using cost-effective cloud-based solutions to store your data. However, Kyano Datafridge also supports other on-premise and cloud platforms, including compliant storage – the interface connection to the archive platform is certified by SAP SE.
Legacy data remains accessible via the standard SAP UI, allowing users to easily view, search, display, export, and analyze data and documents – whenever needed, such as during a tax audit.Kyano Datafridge also allows you to define individual retention rules based on criteria such as legal entity (BUKRS) or document type. This means that obsolete data is automatically deleted from your system once their retention period expires. This ensures compliance with current data privacy legislation and keeps your data hosting costs within your budget.
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