Application Modernization

Your legacy app doesn't have to hold you back

We modernize the applications slowing you down, fixing scalability, performance, and reliability, so you're not stuck choosing between "keep the old system" and "start from zero."

Mid-market companies running legacy line-of-business apps come to us when the vendor's answer is a rewrite nobody budgeted for.

WHY PEOPLE CALL

The rewrite the vendor wants was never in the budget

Legacy applications rarely fail all at once. The moment someone picks up the phone is usually one of these.

The vendor discontinued support, and their fix is a full rewrite nobody budgeted for.
The application still runs, but every deploy feels like a coin flip.
A compliance review flagged the app's authentication as a real liability.
The one engineer who understood the codebase left, and nobody wrote it down.
It only runs on a server nobody wants to touch, in a data center whose lease is ending.
New features take months, because nothing in the codebase was built to be extended.

If one of those sounds like your application, the rest of this page is what we would do next.

OUR APPROACH

Four steps, in this order, every time

We do not propose a rebuild before we understand what the application actually does and who depends on it.

01

Assess before we touch anything

We review the application, its dependencies, and what breaks if we get it wrong, before proposing an approach.

  • +Code and architecture review
  • +Dependency and integration map
  • +A rebuild-or-retire recommendation
02

Rebuild for the cloud

We re-platform on Microsoft Azure or AWS, adding autoscaling, wider distribution, and monitoring that tells you before your users do.

  • +Cloud-native architecture on Azure or AWS
  • +Autoscaling and wider distribution
  • +Monitoring and alerting built in
03

Retire what does not need saving

Not every legacy app is worth rebuilding. We help you decide what to retire, and migrate its data safely before it goes.

  • +Retirement and data migration plan
  • +A sunset timeline your team can follow
  • +No orphaned data left behind
04

Hand it off supportable

We build documentation and a support model into the project, not as an afterthought, so the next engineer is not starting from zero.

  • +Documentation your team can actually use
  • +Runbooks for common issues
  • +Supportable by your team, or by ours
HOW IT PLAYS OUT

Two earlier attempts, then one that worked

OnShore wanted to modernize ValidationMaster, their flagship platform for FDA-regulated manufacturers. Two earlier attempts with other vendors had sunk on the compliance requirements alone. We rebuilt the reporting and document generation, improved the interface, and delivered against those same requirements, on time, as promised.

Read the OnShore Technology Group case study
2x
Sales growth after the relaunch
FDA
Compliance requirements met, on schedule
3rd
Attempt at this rebuild, the one that shipped
On time
Delivered as promised
WHO THIS IS BUILT FOR

Teams carrying an application nobody wants to own

We do our best work with companies between roughly 200 and 5,000 people who run on Microsoft and have an IT leader in the building.

QUESTIONS WE GET FIRST

Before you talk to an engineer

How do we know if an application is worth rebuilding versus retiring?
Our vendor says the only option is a full rewrite. Is that true?
What happens to our data during a rebuild?
Will this run on Azure, AWS, or on-premises?
What if we just need a plan, not a full rebuild yet?
READY WHEN YOU ARE

Let's start with the application nobody wants to touch.

Thirty minutes with an engineer who has looked at worse. Bring the one everyone is afraid to redeploy.

Talk to an engineer about your legacy app

No pitch deck. We look at what is actually running and give you a rebuild-or-retire recommendation either way.