Legacy applications can benefit significantly from migrating to the cloud. The cloud offers improved scalability & reliability for your legacy applications, and improved security & durability for your valuable business data. There are several options for modernizing and moving an application to the cloud. You can make significant changes by refactoring, rearchitecting or completely rebuilding the application – or you can choose to replatform the application. Replatforming involves migrating the application to a new runtime platform, making minimal changes to the code, but not the code structure, features or functions. The choice you make depends on the criticality of the application, the urgency to make a change and the required costs.
This page provides expert tips and insights on legacy application modernization to take advantage of the benefits of the cloud.
Legacy application modernization can be a big undertaking, especially when you have a user base to maintain. Senior Consultant Gary Gealy shares how to use an evolutionary approach rather than a revolutionary approach, so you can handle your updates one piece at a time.
Four Ways to Include Your Users to More Successfully Update Your Legacy System
The thought of updating a legacy system can be intimidating, especially when you have a user base to maintain. Senior Consultant Gary Gealy, however, sees this as an advantage. You can save yourself time, money and a lot of headaches by actually including your users in in your legacy system update.
Why You’ll Want to Use Elixir to Replatform Your Legacy Application
Have you heard about the latest weapon in the developer’s arsenal? It’s called Elixir and it’s a dynamic functional language that operates on the Erlang virtual machine. Here’s why it might be the right solution for your next replatforming effort.
How to Avoid Stalling on Your Path to App Modernization
Application modernization can be an extremely worthwhile but enormous undertaking. There are many ways it can get bogged down. Here are four tips for an efficient application modernization process.
Five Practical Tips for Replatforming and Sunsetting of a Legacy Application
Replatforming can be a huge and somewhat intimidating undertaking, but it doesn’t have to be. Read this article to learn five practical tips for your replatforming efforts.
Five AWS Tools to Make Life in the Cloud Easier
Principal Consultant David Sullivan has found that AWS is now more valuable than ever by providing everything you need to manage a data center right at your fingertips. David shares five AWS tools and how he's seen our clients benefit from their use.
A leading automotive marketplace website needed to rearchitect its platform, and sought to move everything to the Cloud. We built a lean and flexible environment for this organization’s platform, that also allows them to optimize third-party solutions by using a vibrant API architecture.
A SaaS company catering to the home construction industry had outdated product architecture that needed to be modernized for quicker product releases. We moved our client’s flagship applications to the Cloud so our team could build and deploy much more quickly, while also introducing Agile methodology to the development process. We then developed a new, modern application utilizing microservices.
As a result we streamlined the time it took to get their products to market, enabling them to generate revenue faster and get their clients the technology they need to revolutionize the home construction industry.
TeachTown needed to modernize their core applications and infrastructure so that as their business grew, the applications could scale with them. We brought the capabilities, mindset and cross-functional team to make it happen.
Through one of our Scrum-as-a-Service teams, Sparq helped BrandSafway replatform legacy applications that were scheduled to sunset.
Two large healthcare technology providers had recently merged into one comprehensive platform for managing payments and care programs. Their combined product portfolio needed to be updated to align with a modern .NET tech stack to eliminate technical debt. Learn how we quickly scaled up a Scrum-as-a-Service TM team to enhance and support our client’s legacy application.
Lexipol’s core product was using outdated technology that was unable to scale. Adding functionality and content to the platform was difficult and time-consuming, which led to significant added cost and created a suboptimal user experience. We modernized their platform resulting in increase in scalability, faster performance and increased customer satifisfaction.