DATA & MODERN APPS

Data you can trust. Apps that keep up. ‍

Getting clean, AI-ready data and modern applications aren't two separate projects, they're the same foundation. We build both together so your AI investments actually have something solid to stand on.

START HERE

What is data and application modernization?

It is the work of updating where your data lives, how it moves, who can see it, and the applications that depend on it. Most of it falls into five workstreams.

01

Assessment

Find out what data and applications you actually have, what they cost to run, and what is quietly at risk.

02

Data engineering and migration

Move data off aging on-premises storage and into a cloud platform sized for your workload, then build the pipelines that keep it current.

03

Governance and security

Catalog what you hold, classify the sensitive parts, and control who can reach it.

04

Analytics and reporting

Turn the result into dashboards and forecasts your business leaders can use without calling IT first.

05

Application modernization and development

Rebuild, extend, or replace the applications sitting on top, so they scale and stay supportable.

You rarely need all five at once. You almost never need only one.

WHY PEOPLE CALL

Most data problems did not start as data problems

They started as fifteen years of reasonable decisions. The moment someone picks up the phone is usually one of these.

A cloud migration stalled partway through, and the internal expertise to finish it left with someone's two weeks' notice.
Microsoft 365 Copilot is on the roadmap, and nobody can say with confidence what it would be allowed to see.
A line-of-business application is out of support, and the vendor's answer is a rewrite you did not budget for.
Two companies merged and now run two of everything, including two versions of the truth about revenue.
The data center lease is up, and the decision cannot be deferred again.
Finance and operations are reporting different numbers in the same meeting, and both are technically correct.

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

WHAT WE RUN

One team for the data and the apps sitting on top of it

Nine things, run by the same engineers, so the seam between your data and your software stops being your problem to manage.

With your data
01

See what you have

We assess your data and reporting environment first. You get a clear picture before anyone proposes an architecture, which is the opposite of how these projects usually go.

  • +Inventory of sources, reports, and owners
  • +What is duplicated and what it costs to keep
  • +Where the sensitive material actually sits
02

Move it somewhere it can scale

We migrate on-premises storage to a right-sized platform on Microsoft Azure or AWS, so capacity follows demand instead of a purchase order.

  • +Migration to Azure or AWS, sized to the workload
  • +Data lakes for large, messy source data
  • +Pipelines that keep it current afterward
03

Make it governed and secure

We catalog your data, classify the sensitive parts, and apply access rules. This is also the work that has to happen before any AI tool is pointed at your files.

  • +Cataloging and classification with Microsoft Purview
  • +Access policies on the material that matters
  • +Quality checks during ingestion, not in a board deck
See our cybersecurity services
04

Make it usable

Business intelligence is the part your colleagues actually see. We build reporting in Microsoft Power BI so people can answer their own question at 7 a.m.

  • +Power BI dashboards and scheduled reporting
  • +Self-serve views for finance and operations
  • +One set of numbers, agreed before it ships
See business intelligence
05

Look forward, not just back

Our data scientists build models that use your history to forecast what is coming. Useful only when the four steps above are done properly, which is why we do not sell it first.

  • +Demand, churn, maintenance, and risk forecasting
  • +Models built on sources that have been cleaned
  • +Handed over with the reasoning, not as a black box
With your applications
01

Modernize what is holding you back

Legacy applications fail in predictable ways. We work with your product owners and your security team to decide which ones are worth rebuilding and which are worth retiring.

  • +Rebuilt for cloud, with autoscaling and wider distribution
  • +A retirement list, not just a rebuild list
  • +No global data center footprint required
See application modernization
02

Build what does not exist yet

When the software you need is not on the market, we design and build it. Usually the thing standing between a manual process and the hours it eats.

  • +Line-of-business applications
  • +Automation for the steps a person is doing by hand
  • +Built to be supportable by your team, or by ours
03

Connect what does not talk

Most of the productivity sitting on the table in a mid-market company is in the gaps between systems. We build the integrations that close them.

  • +Integrations across the systems you already run
  • +Handoffs between applications, not to a person
  • +One less spreadsheet holding the process together
See DevOps and delivery
04

Start with a Springboard

If you have an idea but no scope, a Springboard engagement answers the practical questions and hands you a plan. You can take that document and build with someone else.

  • +Stakeholder sessions to define what it has to do
  • +Every requirement tied to a business impact
  • +Prioritized backlog, recommended budget, timeline
Ask what a Springboard covers
COPILOT AND AI

AI inherits the governance you already have

For most companies, that is not much. If permissions are loose, a Copilot rollout does not create a new problem. It shows everyone the one you had.

So we treat AI readiness as an outcome of the data work rather than a separate purchase. For agent and AI application work once the foundation is in place, see our artificial intelligence services.

Clean sources
Know what you hold and where it lives.
Classified content
Sensitive material labeled, not assumed.
Enforced access
People reach what they should, and nothing else.
Then the tooling
Copilot on a foundation that can carry it.
HOW IT PLAYS OUT

Two clients, two very different starting points

2x
Sales growth after the platform relaunch

OnShore wanted to modernize ValidationMaster, their flagship platform for FDA-regulated manufacturers. We rebuilt the reporting and document generation, improved the interface, and delivered against compliance requirements that had sunk two earlier attempts with other vendors.

Read the OnShore Technology Group case study
Real-time
Reporting, in place of manual data pulls

Horton was pulling client and premium data out of a CRM, insurance platforms, and XML forms by hand. We built the pipelines and a single source of truth, then stood up Power BI so their business teams could answer their own questions.

Read The Horton Group case study
WHO THIS IS BUILT FOR

Teams that are smaller than the roadmap they were handed

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. Manufacturing, financial services, professional services, retail, education, and legal, mostly.

HOW AN ENGAGEMENT STARTS

Three steps before anyone signs anything

01

We look at what you have

Your current environment, your applications, your data sources, and the constraints you are working inside.

02

We talk to the people who feel it

Not just IT. The controller, the plant manager, the person maintaining the spreadsheet that holds everything together.

03

We come back with a plan

Scope, sequence, budget, timeline, dependencies, and what we would do first. In writing.

Then you decide. If you want us to run it afterward instead of handing it back, that is what our managed services are for.

QUESTIONS WE GET FIRST

Before you talk to an engineer

What is the difference between data modernization and application modernization?
Do we need to fix our data before rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot?
How does Netrix build on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric?
How do you handle data quality, governance, and security?
Do you work with AWS as well as Microsoft?
What if we do not know what we need yet?
READY WHEN YOU ARE

Let's start with what you actually have.

Thirty minutes with an engineer who has untangled this before. Bring your worst reporting problem and the application nobody wants to touch.

Talk to an engineer about your data and apps

No pitch deck. We look at your sources, your apps, and what they are costing you, and you get an honest read either way.