Cella decommissions your old ERP as you move to a new one – whatever the vendor – keeping every historical record accessible, reportable and compliant, so your migration carries only the data you actually need.
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The migration question
What happens to your old ERP data?
Every ERP migration leaves the same question behind. Your new system only needs current, in-scope data, but the old ERP holds years – often decades – of history you are legally required to keep. You cannot load it all into the new platform, and you cannot simply delete it. Most teams default to one of three options, and each one has a catch.
Run it in parallel
Keep the old ERP alive in read-only mode and you pay licences, infrastructure and support for a system almost no one uses and runs IT/business risk of keeping old systems alive.
Migrate everything
Carry the full history into the new ERP and the ERP data migration itself gets slower and riskier, cluttering the platform your teams use every day and potentially significantly increasing operating costs.
Delete it
Not an option – most of the data is kept for statutory retention, audit and compliance, and cannot lawfully be destroyed to a governed system.
How Cella fits
Decommission your old ERP as you migrate
Cella gives you the fourth option. It extracts the historical data from your old ERP into one secure, reportable store, so your ERP data migration carries only the live, in-scope data you actually need. The old system is switched off for good, and its data stays accessible for reporting, audit and compliance – searchable in one place, whatever vendor it came from.
- Migrate only what you need. Move current, in-scope data into the new ERP and leave the historical burden behind.
- Switch the old system off. Retire the legacy ERP for good and stop paying to run a system you only kept for its data.
- Keep every record. Historical data stays accessible for statutory retention, audit and reporting, with encryption, retention rules and GDPR disposal built in.
- More than ERP data archiving. Rather than archiving data while the old ERP keeps running, Cella decommissions it entirely and holds the data in one accessible store. Cella can complement a live archiving policy if this is an active strategy.
- AI-ready history. Freed from the legacy system and kept in full business context, your historical data is clean, governed and ready for AI-powered natural language search and analytics across your data.
Whatever you are moving from
Cella migrates data from any retired ERP
Whether you are consolidating onto one platform, replacing an ageing system or moving to the cloud, Cella can migrate data from retired applications of almost any vendor and hold it together in one store.
SAP
SAP ECC and earlier releases, whether you move to S/4HANA, RISE or a non-SAP ERP. See the SAP / HANA transition page for the full SAP story.
Oracle and mid-market
Oracle E-Business Suite and Fusion, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Infor.
And the rest
Baan, Microsoft Dynamics, mainframe and any other legacy ERP – data from multiple systems and vendors held together in one platform.
A cleaner migration
Move to your new ERP with less baggage
Decommissioning the old ERP with Cella before or alongside your migration keeps the project lighter, the new platform leaner and the history safe. Lower dual-running cost, a faster migration and a full audit trail retained – with one store for every retired ERP.
Related use cases
Explore related use cases
Changing ERP is rarely the only reason to decommission. If you’re moving specifically to SAP S/4HANA, carving out a business, or targeting legacy IT cost, Cella covers those too.
Proof
Trusted across enterprise ERP estates
50+
enterprise clients
600+
systems decommissioned
40+
system types
Trusted by Fortune 500 companies, major European multinationals and public sector organisations across Europe, the Americas and Asia, and built on 30+ years of legacy data experience. Enterprises across energy, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing trust Cella to retire SAP and non-SAP ERPs while keeping their data accessible and compliant.
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ERP data migration FAQs
If you have a question, please use our short form to send it over. We’re always happy to chat.
When you migrate to a new ERP, only current, in-scope data usually needs to move across. The rest – years of historical records kept for reporting, audit and compliance – can be decommissioned into Cella, so it stays fully accessible while the old system is switched off.
No. Most organisations only need current data in the new ERP. Migrating everything makes the project heavier and clutters the new platform. Cella lets you migrate the data you need and decommission the rest into one secure store.
ERP data archiving – sometimes called ERP archiving – moves inactive data to separate storage while the original ERP keeps runningn. Decommissioning goes further: Cella can complement a live archiving policy if this is an active strategy.
SAP and non-SAP ERPs, including SAP ECC, Oracle E-Business Suite and Fusion, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Infor, Baan and Microsoft Dynamics – and any other legacy ERP. Data from multiple systems and vendors can be held in one platform.
Cella extracts historical data from your retired ERP into one secure, reportable store, so your ERP data migration carries only the data you need. The old system is switched off, and its data stays accessible for reporting, audit and compliance.
Ready to change ERP without losing the history?
Talk to our team about decommissioning your old ERP as you migrate to a new one, and see how much you could save.