The questions we hear most about Cella, data decommissioning and how projects run. If yours is not here, ask us directly – we will give you a straight answer.
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Cella is enterprise legacy system decommissioning software. It moves the data out of legacy systems you no longer need – SAP and non-SAP – into one secure, governed store, keeps it accessible for search, reporting and compliance, and lets you switch the old systems off for good.
Data archiving moves older records out of a live system to keep that system fast and lean – the system itself stays switched on. Legacy system decommissioning retires the system altogether: the data moves to an independent store, and the application, its licences and its infrastructure are switched off. If the future of the system is the question, decommissioning is usually the answer.
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No. Cella is system-agnostic. It decommissions data from SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Infor, Microsoft, Baan and any other legacy system, holding every retired system’s data in the same accessible store.
Once its data is safely in Cella, the system can be switched off completely – licences ended, infrastructure retired and support contracts closed. That is where the saving comes from: organisations cut up to 80% of the running cost of their legacy estate.
Cella is delivered as Cella Cloud, a fully managed SaaS platform – there is nothing to install, host or patch yourself. On-premise deployment is available if required.
Projects are delivered with our implementation partners. Enterprise data specialists with thousands of data migration, archiving and decommissioning projects behind them.
It depends on the size and complexity of the estate. A single system can typically be decommissioned in a small number of months once your governance allows the system to be switched off; larger estates are phased, so savings start with the first system retired and build from there.
Your teams keep full access through Cella’s search and reporting, with role-based permissions controlling who sees what and an audit trail recording every access. Nothing is locked away – the data simply lives in one governed store instead of many ageing systems.
Every legacy estate is different, so Cella is scoped and priced per project, based on the data volumes. Get in touch and we will scope yours.
Yes – decommissioned data stays searchable and reportable for exactly this reason. Retention rules keep each record for as long as the law requires, legal hold suspends disposal when needed, and a full audit trail shows what was retained, held and destroyed.
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