SERVICES / MODERNIZATION
Modernize without stopping
We help you move off aging platforms in reversible steps while the business keeps running.
The core system works, mostly. The people who understood it have moved on, and every change feels like a risk. We modernize the estate you have, on a roadmap you can fund, and stay through delivery so the plan is one we have to live with too. Our architects have led modernization programs at global investment banks, Big Four consultancies and national e-government platforms.
What we do
Architecture review
An independent read on your current estate: what is load-bearing, what is holding you back, and what it would take to change it.
- Current-state assessment and risk review
- Options with trade-offs, not a single answer
Legacy re-platforming
Moving systems off aging platforms without stopping the business, in steps that are each reversible and useful on their own.
- Portfolio triage: retain, re-platform, rebuild, retire
- Old and new designed to run side by side
- Cutover runbooks with tested rollback
Costed roadmaps
A sequenced plan with the business case to fund it, built around your constraints rather than a vendor’s preferred platform.
- Initiatives sequenced against dependencies
- Cost and effort estimates
Target platform choice
AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud or on-premises, chosen for your workloads, skills and regulatory needs. We recommend what fits, not what we resell.
- Workload-by-workload assessment
- Data residency in the region you choose
Our solutions
When every change has to route through one aging core platform, we build new services around it and take over one function at a time.
- Interfaces defined before anything moves
- Old and new running side by side
- Each step reversible
When systems built up over years are joined by spreadsheets, we add an integration layer and retire the manual joins first.
- Integrations ranked by risk and effort
- Systems retired once nothing depends on them
When one codebase slows every team down, we decompose along business domains, starting where change is most frequent.
- Domain map and service boundaries
- Shared CI/CD from the first service
- Teams that own what they ship
How it runs
Assess
Architecture and estate review, stakeholder interviews and a prioritized list of findings.
Define
A target architecture on the platform that fits, a sequenced roadmap and the business case to fund it.
Deliver
Re-platforming in reversible steps. Adoption is part of delivery: runbooks, handover and training for the team that will run it.
Improve
Review technical debt and refine the roadmap as the business changes.
What you get
- A map of what your estate actually does and what depends on it
- A target architecture and a sequenced, costed roadmap
- Re-platformed systems with tested rollback at each step
- Runbooks and training for the team that will run them
- Code and cloud accounts you own
Questions we get asked
Do we have to rebuild everything?
Rarely. Most estates are a mix: some systems are retained, some re-platformed, a few rebuilt and some retired. The assessment tells you which is which.
How do you keep the business running during the move?
Old and new run side by side, each step is reversible, and every cutover has a runbook with a tested rollback.
Our last transformation program stalled. What is different?
Smaller steps that are each useful on their own, a roadmap you can fund in stages, and the same senior team from assessment through delivery.