Retention Box for Legacy SAP Systems

Retention Box for Legacy SAP Systems

On-demand access to legacy systems – secure, efficient, and cost-effective.

Ensuring access to legacy SAP systems

After migrating to the cloud, many companies face the challenge of keeping their legacy systems available for legal or operational reasons – without incurring excessive costs or risks. However, keeping these systems permanently up and running is not only expensive and inefficient, but also requires regular updates and maintenance, even though access is rarely needed.

For companies, this means:

Ongoing expenses for operating, maintaining, cooling, and securing outdated hardware, as well as licensing fees
Compliance risks
Potential security vulnerabilities

The solution: On-demand access with the Retention Box

The Retention Box for Legacy SAP Systems is a cloud-based hosting solution that activates your legacy SAP systems only when you actually need them. It meets all requirements for security, compliance, and data access – with minimal operational effort. This allows you to reduce costs and workload while staying fully compliant at all times.

Your benefits

Efficiency and cost savings

On-demand activation:
Systems are started only when needed, saving infrastructure and operating costs
Minimal operational effort:
No ongoing maintenance by your IT team, no regular updates or backups required
Cloud-native and flexible:
Future-proof operation on hyperscalers or in a private cloud

Security and compliance

Legally compliant archiving:
Meets all requirements for data retention, GDPR, and industry-specific regulations
Reduced security risks:
Smaller attack surface thanks to isolated environment and no continuous operation of legacy systems
Secure access for audits:
Fast and secure access for auditors, tax authorities, or internal reviews

Flexible access instead of continuous operation

Whether for tax audits, internal reviews, or meeting legal data retention requirements – with the Retention Box for Legacy SAP Systems, you retain access to your SAP data and stay prepared for any eventuality, without having to keep your legacy system running.

The Retention Box by Scheer IDS offers an intelligent, secure, and cost-effective solution – built on our many years of SAP expertise. As an SAP Gold Partner and Microsoft Solutions Partner, we place the highest value on reliable, flexible, and secure system hosting.