Working with a nightmare legacy system? Tired of manual processes, poor performance and lack of flexibility? We can help!
Whatever your goals are, from increasing efficiencies and productivity, scaling your business, preparing to exit, or winning and retaining more customers, legacy systems can be a real roadblock to your business’s success.
Working with legacy technology:
Our team will help you assess the state of your legacy systems and uncover efficiency and data issues, security vulnerabilities and unnecessary costs.
We will then work together to find the right modernisation approach for you and implement it, ensuring business continuity.
Our experience includes modernising legacy systems, re-platforming systems, building new APIs and developing white-label versions of existing systems.
We will help you assess the state of your legacy systems and reveal the true state of their efficiency, data integrity, security, and cost-effectiveness. We'll dig deep to uncover any hidden issues, vulnerabilities, and inefficiencies that are holding you back and costing you money.
With our expert analysis in hand, we'll craft a modernisation strategy and plan that's custom-built for your unique needs. During this process we will review modernisation approaches and techniques and will pick the one that is best for you. This plan will also provide you with a roadmap for the future, charting a clear path forward and setting out a timeline for achieving your goals.
We can help you integrate your legacy systems with your ERP, CRM and other cloud applications. We connect your data from your on-premises system to the cloud enabling you to increase performance, access buried data and eliminate financial inefficiencies.
We find that in many cases, the back-end of the legacy technology works fine, but the interface is very outdated and becomes hard-to-use. We can create a new interface to your legacy component, making it easily accessible to other software components via an API. This does not change the code of your legacy technology, allowing you to leverage the existing application features and extend its value.
We can take your legacy system's components to a new platform with similar characteristics and features. We make minimal code changes to adapt to the new platform without fundamentally changing the structure or the system's features and function. By re-platforming to new software, you take advantage of reduced infrastructure costs, better functionality with minimal effort, continuing to receive value from out of your legacy investment.
We can help you update and improve the configuration of the legacy technology to solve technical problems. We can then maintain the updated and more efficient solution at a lower cost allowing you to avoid system failures, security breaches and maintenance cost escalations.
A legacy system refers to old or outdated computer systems, processes programming languages or software applications that are still used instead of modern, upgraded versions.
A legacy system can be defined by age, purpose, relevance and life-cycle stage. For example, you might be using a 10-year-old system or process that doesn't integrate with modern tools, doesn't receive updates from the vendor and is slow or hard to use. A legacy system might also be a more modern technology or process that is no longer fit for purpose and is irrelevant to your business needs.
Usually, businesses still use their legacy systems because:
All of the above are valid reasons for using outdated technology, but businesses should also consider the risks and issues of relying on them. The costs and time spent on hard-to-use systems are excruciating, and they don't offer any significant benefits. There is always the risk of security breaches, data silos between different systems and incompatibility with new tools.
The decision of whether to replace or maintain a legacy system depends on a variety of factors such as the system's performance, the cost of maintaining it, its alignment with the organisation's current and future needs, and the system's security risks or compliance issues. It's important to weigh the costs and benefits of both options and conduct a thorough assessment of the current state of the legacy system. Additionally, considering the user experience and the impact of the decision on the end users is also important.
Maintaining legacy systems can be challenging for a few reasons:
Maintaining legacy systems can be challenging and requires a lot of resources. Our team can help you modernise them and overcome these challenges, by updating them and making them more efficient, secure and flexible.
Some of the most significant business benefits of legacy system modernisation are: