We re-engineer the systems you already run on - mainframe COBOL, VB6, Oracle Forms, aging .NET - into maintainable, cloud-ready platforms. No big-bang rewrite, no freeze on operations. Work starts with an assessment on Modernize Studio: map what exists, cost and risk every piece, then modernize in strangler-fig slices that ship value from the first quarter.
Every legacy system was once the modern choice. The AS/400 that runs your warehouse was an advantage in 1996. The problem isn't that it was built - it's that everything around it kept changing while it stood still. The people who knew it retired, the vendor sunset the runtime, and every later integration became a workaround on a workaround.
The riskiest plan is the heroic rewrite: two years, one cutover, and a new system that has to reproduce twenty years of undocumented rules on day one. We don't do that. Instrument first, isolate, then replace one bounded capability at a time, with old and new running in parallel until the numbers match.
Modernization is also when you fix decisions, not just code. Data models that still encode 2003's org chart, batch jobs that exist because networks were slow, permission systems nobody dares touch - those are first-class targets, because they're what actually slows the roadmap.
Sprint → Phase → Retainer
Assessment first, always. Scope and investment are bespoke to your estate - book a demo and we'll walk the plan together.
MODERNIZATION ASSESSMENT
Assessment-first (diagnostic-powered): portfolio scan, debt register, one costed roadmap.
- → System inventory & dependency map
- → Ranked debt register
- → Modernization roadmap with sequencing
- → Executive readout
MODERNIZATION PHASE
Execution on the first slices: strangler seams, parallel runs, first cutovers.
- → First capabilities extracted & live
- → Reconciliation harness
- → CI/CD in place
- → Updated register & next-phase plan
MODERNIZATION RETAINER
A standing modernization crew inside your roadmap - capacity, not chaos.
- → Dedicated squad
- → Quarterly architecture reviews
- → Debt burn-down reporting
Technology Modernization, answered
Rewrite or refactor - how do you decide?
Per component, never per system. We score each bounded capability on change frequency, risk, and coupling. High-change, high-value pieces get re-engineered; stable correct pieces get wrapped and left alone; dead pieces get retired. Full rewrites are a last resort when the runtime is genuinely end-of-life.
Can you modernize without downtime?
That's the default. Strangler seams, parallel runs with reconciliation, and reversible cutovers keep the business running. The big-bang weekend migration is exactly what this method avoids.
Our COBOL developers are retiring. How urgent is this?
Treat key-person risk like an outage with a countdown. First move isn't a rewrite - it's knowledge capture and automated analysis to pull business rules into docs and tests while the people who wrote them can still confirm intent. That turns an emergency into a plan.
What does a modernization engagement cost?
It's bespoke to your estate - we don't publish price lists because honest scoping needs to know what you run. Book a demo and we'll walk assessment, phases, and retainers against your stack. The free diagnostic on this site gives you a starting path in about three minutes.
Start with the sprint.
Fixed fee, few weeks, and you end up with a plan you could execute without us. Most clients don't - but the leverage is yours either way.