Software Modernization
Drawbacks of Legacy Software
Cost of Maintenance
Like a beat-up old car that lands in the shop every other month, legacy software systems require significant maintenance just to keep them running. At a certain point, the cost (in both money and time) of maintaining the old system starts to outweigh the costs of starting over.
Inflexibility
While your old system may have suited your organization’s needs perfectly when it was first installed, as your company has grown, it’s struggled to keep up. Legacy software is seldom built with enough flexibility and configurability to keep up with shifting needs — at least not without heavy investments and plenty of custom coding.
Security and Compliance Gaps
As data security demands grow and compliance requirements tighten, legacy systems are becoming increasingly risky. These outdated systems are more prone to vulnerabilities, making them susceptible to data breaches and security failures. With evolving threats, relying on legacy infrastructure can lead to severe consequences, highlighting the urgent need for modern, secure solutions.
Incompatibility
Many older software systems rely on outdated technology and were developed by companies no longer in business. As a result, businesses often struggle to integrate these legacy systems with modern components, leading to compatibility issues. The necessary workarounds usually create fragile and inefficient solutions that lack resilience.
Customer & Employee Dissatisfaction
When legacy systems slow down internal processes, customers may experience delays, errors in fulfillment, or billing issues, leading to weakened loyalty and negative perceptions of your business. Internally, employees spend more time troubleshooting software, leaving less time for their core tasks, which can reduce job satisfaction.
Legacy Software Replacement
Evolutionary Approach
Instead of replacing the old system all at once, we prefer a gradual approach to legacy software migration. By replacing the most problematic components first, we minimize downtime and reduce disruption to your organization.
Data & Logic Preservation
Replacing legacy systems with new software is a delicate process, as so much data and process information are embedded in those systems. Our careful, systematic approach preserves your business processes and leaves your information intact.
Cutting-Edge Technology
While your legacy software may have struggled to integrate with modern systems, your new systems will be built using current technologies that are designed to play well with others and flexible enough to evolve with your organization.
Sleek, Intuitive User Experience
A key component of customer and employee satisfaction, as well as general productivity, is a system’s user experience. Our thoughtful designers create attractive interfaces that allow our clients to be much more productive, with much less headache.
Key steps while replacing a legacy system
Identify Gaps
You first need to look at how big the gap is between the tasks your system can complete vs what you need to do now and in the future.
Currently Capacity
You need to consider the software’s real-time capabilities, processing speed, and ability such as mobile devices, or application integration.
Current Problems
Legacy system often have non-existent or insubstantial documentation, no testing, application depending on outdated frameworks, libraries, or technologies and confusing, inconsistent code.
Your Needs
It can be tempting to rebuild the system from the ground up, and while this can be hugely beneficial and result in great gains in ROI, it will also require a substantial upfront investment.
Make a Decision
So how do you decide between a partial and complete rebuild? We can take a look at your system and software.
