Many organisations continue operating legacy SAP systems only to preserve historical data for compliance and audit requirements. SAP system decommissioning with secure data archiving allows companies to shut down these environments while retaining complete access to critical information. Relevant tables, documents and reports are extracted and transferred into an independent archive platform where they remain searchable and audit-ready. Important standard reports and custom analyses can also be recreated so that financial, legal and business evaluations remain possible without SAP licenses. This approach reduces infrastructure, maintenance and licensing costs while simplifying IT landscapes. Companies gain long-term access to their historical SAP data without maintaining the original system.