# JiVS Reviews **Vendor:** Data Migration Services AG **Category:** [ETL Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/etl-tools) **Average Rating:** 5.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 4 ## About JiVS JiVS IMP is a Java-based information management platform. This means that the entire life cycle of information that is no longer required in daily operations can be managed seamlessly - including the transfer of historical data and documents from the live systems to their final and legally secure deletion. With JiVS IMP, old systems and archives can be completely decomissioned. As a result, the costs associated with operating the legacy systems are generally reduced by 80 percent. As part of migration projects, JiVS IMP also helps decrease the required effort by 50 percent. If historical information is continuously transferred to JiVS IMP, the total cost of ownership (TCO) is significantly diminished. In the case of an SAP S/4HANA environment, a TCO reduction of 25 percent can be expected. Furthermore, JiVS IMP ensures 100 percent access to historical information certified by auditors and creates the basis for 100 percent legal compliance. As a modern system, JiVS IMP increases data protection and information security by means of regular security patches, encryption, revision security, and retention management. In addition, JiVS IMP acts as an information hub ("data staging area") for historical data and documents of all kinds, supporting a wide variety of agile business scenarios including: mergers & acquisitions, carve-outs, centralization and harmonization of IT landscapes and locations, system rightsizing, optimization data quality, big data scenarios, and protection of intellectual property. ## JiVS Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **easy access** to historical data from SAP S/4, enhancing their data retrieval efficiency. (1 reviews) ## JiVS Reviews ### 1. President **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2024 **What do you like best about JiVS?** You can access historical information directly out of SAP S/4. **What do you dislike about JiVS?** Nothing really which comes to mind while using JiVS for the last 2 Years **What problems is JiVS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Direct and easy access to retired/archived SAP or Non SAP Data ### 2. A unique digital archive platform to archive all your data **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephane B. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2020 **What do you like best about JiVS?** Any kind of data/application can be archive using JIVS. A quick and easy implementation thanks to its standard approach, on average a project execution last 3 to 4 months. The provided set of tools allow to validate the completeness of the data transfer. A huge set of standard report are available and if it does not cover the business requirements, custom report can be developed. Today most of the JIVS implementation and support are done by internal team, knowledge transfer is quick and easy. JIVS can be hosted on-premise or in the cloud, it supports a wide range of database. Once the data has been archived in JIVS they are secured and cannot be modified or deleted. Export control data and GDPR data can also be managed in JIVS. JIVS has been certified by external auditor, and multiple audit have proven that the solution is quite effective. User management and access can be done to the single data set. Finally JIVS allow to reduce greatly the TCO of an application portfolio, reducing the number of application, licenses and server. **What do you dislike about JiVS?** Some of the report required to have a good performance server. **Recommendations to others considering JiVS:** An Enterprise License Agreement is the best way to reduce the TCO for JIVS. Internalize project implementation and support. **What problems is JiVS solving and how is that benefiting you?** JIVS allowed us to to simplified our application portfolio, reduce the TCO of our application portfolio and reduce our server footprint. We are able to secure a huge amount of our company historical data for a really long term while keeping them easily accessible. ### 3. Comfortable and cost efficient solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2020 **What do you like best about JiVS?** - Easy and user friendly access to retired SAP data - Straight forward project management from DMS - Cost efficient **What do you dislike about JiVS?** Nothing that I have to mention, all was just perfect **What problems is JiVS solving and how is that benefiting you?** - fully decommissioning of old SAP systems - one place to store retired SAP data (solution is also open for data from other applications) - get rid of high SAP hosting costs - reduce complexity with retiring complete systems ### 4. Founder and CEO of innovad LLC **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andreas G. | Solution Principal S/1, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2020 **What do you like best about JiVS?** The Simplicity of the solution: ALL old data are historized. No decisions are required. **What do you dislike about JiVS?** Downsides of using JiVS are non-existent. **What problems is JiVS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralization of all old data, allowing me to shutdown old IT systems. ## JiVS Discussions - [What is JiVS used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-jivs-used-for) - [View JiVS pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/jivs/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-16+10%3A00%3A12+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=8762ef4d-aad1-4a3d-9965-c73340d3dea6&secure%5Btoken%5D=6500dcaa4334cedda05b8dbae6a57d8c2bb54f2452563885d43cf3ffbed40a02&format=llm_user) ## JiVS Features **Management** - Reporting - Auditing **Functionality** - Extraction - Transformation - Loading - Automation - Scalability ## Top JiVS Alternatives - [Google Cloud BigQuery](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-bigquery/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,157 reviews) - [Celigo](https://www.g2.com/products/celigo/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (1,018 reviews) - [Domo](https://www.g2.com/products/domo/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (987 reviews)