Defense & Aerospace

Your systemswill change.Your datamust endure.

Defense and aerospace programs span decades.
The applications supporting them don't.

Take independent control of enterprise data beyond the lifecycle of any application — preserving data and business context across SAP, legacy systems and technology generations.

Application Retirement · Data Sovereignty · Transformation · AI Readiness

Trusted across Defense & Aerospace

MBDA
Collins Aerospace
Triumph Group

Long-lived programs. Shorter-lived systems.

The system may be gone.The information can't be.

Defense and aerospace organizations operate on timelines conventional enterprise IT was never designed around. Aircraft remain in service. Programs evolve. ERP landscapes transform. Applications reach end of life.

Yet the information behind them — and the business context that gives it meaning — can remain critical for decades.

Long-lived data

Critical enterprise, engineering and product information can outlive multiple generations of applications.

Data sovereignty

Sensitive enterprise information must remain controlled across jurisdictions, providers and changing technology environments.

Legacy exposure

Keeping obsolete applications alive solely for historical access adds cost, complexity, technical debt and security exposure.

Transformation & AI

Modernization demands less legacy baggage. AI demands trusted enterprise data with the historical context required to understand it.

Independent enterprise data

One controlled data layer.Across generations of IT.

JiVS separates the lifecycle of enterprise data from the lifecycle of the applications that created it — preserving data and its business context independently, instead of carrying decades of history from one application generation to the next.

Applications can be replaced. Legacy systems can be retired. The information remains accessible, governed and ready for what comes next.

Applications are temporary.
Enterprise knowledge is not.

Applications

Operative

  • S/4HANA
  • SuccessFactors
  • Ariba
  • SAP Data Archiving

Oracle, Microsoft, others

Other Sources

  • ECC 6.0
  • Bespoke Apps
  • Robotics / IoT
  • + More

Historical

  • SAP
  • Oracle
  • Microsoft
  • Infor
  • + More

SAP BTP

SAP Business Technology Platform

AI AgentsJouleSAP DatasphereSAP Analytics CloudSAP BDCORD Model
Connector

Governed data via ORD model

AI Players

External AI & cloud platforms

OpenAI / GPTIndustrial AIAWS BedrockMicrosoft AzureSnowflakeDatabricks
Connector

AI-ready data via MCP / API

JiVS Information Management Platform

SAP AS Integration

Archive Information System

Replication Service

SAP ECC or S/4HANA

High Speed Transfer

Up to 30 TB a day

ADK Historization

Transfer 100%

Common Object Layer

Business objects in one unified data model

Business Object Creator

AI assisted

AI Apps

Migration · Analytics · Insights

JiVS Chatbot

Natural language queries

Compliance with GDPR, GoBD, SOX and more

Secure long-term access to historical data · Certified for ISO 27001, 27701, 27017, IDW PS 880 and SAP

S/4HANACloudAnalyticsAINew Applications

15 years later

Theaircraftmaystillbeinservice.Thesystemthatbuiltitmaynotbe.

  • A component needs maintenance.
  • The application used when it was manufactured was retired years ago.
  • But the information behind it still matters.

JiVS preserves long-lived enterprise information independently of its original application — keeping it accessible when the business needs it.

Keep the information.
Not the system.

Bill of materials
Engineering data
Technical documentation
Supplier information
Historical transactions
Business context

One foundation. Multiple missions.

Control the data.Change everything around it.

01 /

Application Retirement

Retire systems. Preserve knowledge.

Decommission obsolete SAP and non-SAP applications while maintaining governed access to historical data and its business context.

Lower costLess complexityReduced legacy risk
02 /

SAP & ERP Transformation

Move what the future needs. Not everything the past created.

Separate historical from operational data and migrate only what belongs in the new S/4HANA or ERP environment.

Less dataCleaner coreFaster transformation
03 /

Data Sovereignty

Keep control beyond the application.

Manage enterprise information independently from the applications and technology providers that created it — with greater control over where data resides and how it is governed.

ControlGovernanceIndependence
04 /

AI-Ready Enterprise Data

Give AI the context it is missing.

Make trusted historical information available alongside current enterprise data — preserving the relationships and business context that give it meaning.

Trusted dataHistorical contextAI readiness

Defense executive perspective

ThedatachallengebehindthenexteraofDefense.

MBDA× Data Migration International

Defense organizations face a unique challenge: modernize technology at speed without losing control of the enterprise information accumulated across decades of systems and programs.

Explore an executive perspective on the data challenges shaping the next generation of Defense IT — and what they mean for transformation, sovereignty and AI readiness.

Download the executive whitepaper

Get the whitepaper

Industry proof

Trusted where complexityis the norm.

MBDA
Defense

Legacy systems retired, program data kept

Decades of program information stays accessible and auditable after the source applications are switched off.

Collins Aerospace
Aerospace

Complex landscape, one data foundation

Historical enterprise data consolidated independently of the applications that created it.

Triumph Group
Aerospace

Transformation without data loss

System change delivered while full business context remains available to the organization.

Complex environments. Long information lifecycles. Critical enterprise data that cannot simply be left behind when systems change.

Proven at scale

Complextransformationsdemandprovenexecution.

DuPont× JiVS

DuPont needed to retire a fragmented global SAP landscape while preserving compliant access to decades of historical information.

JiVS retired 17 SAP legacy systems holding more than 50 TB of historical data — in 12 months.

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SAP systems

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Historical data

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Months

“I don't think anybody else, with their approach and product, could have done what we did in 12 months.”

Explore the customer story

Built for enterprise complexity

Lesslegacy.Moreroomtomove.

Up to 0%

Less data to migrate

Up to 0%

Lower legacy IT operating costs

Up to 0 TB/day

Data transfer

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Successful implementations

Control by design

Controlisn'tafeature.It'stherequirement.

Your data. Your rules.
Beyond any application.

ISO 27001

Information Security

ISO 27017

Cloud Security

IDW PS 880

Certified for commercial and tax-law requirements

Application independence

Keep enterprise information accessible beyond the lifecycle of the applications that created it.

Data sovereignty

Maintain control over where enterprise information resides and how it is managed.

Business context

Preserve the relationships and structures that make historical information understandable and usable.

Governed lifecycle

Retain information for as long as required — and delete it according to applicable policies and regulations.

From historical data to enterprise intelligence

AIdoesn'tjustneedmoredata.Itneedstherightcontext.

Your organization already holds decades of enterprise knowledge — but most of it stays locked in generations of applications.

What you already own

Products · Programs · Transactions · Suppliers · Assets · Decisions

The problem

Fragmented across retired and legacy systems

The JiVS answer

One governed enterprise data foundation

The outcome

Analytics, automation and AI on trusted context

Why JiVS

Builtfordatathatcan'tbeleftbehind.

Independent

Separate enterprise data from the lifecycle of its source applications.

Proven

More than 3,000 implementations across complex enterprise environments.

Fast

Transfer capability of up to 30 TB per day.

Flexible

SAP and non-SAP. Cloud and on-premises. One governed platform.

Accessible

Maintain access to historical data and its business context after source systems are retired.

Secure

ISO 27001 and ISO 27017 certified.

Future-ready

Preserve enterprise knowledge for transformation, analytics and AI.

One governed platform for SAP and non-SAP, cloud and on-premises.

Your data. Your next mission.

Your legacy data shouldn't
limit your next mission.

Take control of decades of enterprise information — and build a trusted data foundation designed to outlive the systems around it.

JiVS — Enterprise data. Beyond the application.