Legacy Modernization

Strategic Legacy Modernization Consulting helps businesses make the right strategic decisions about transforming their outdated core IT assets. It's crucial because the rising costs of maintaining old systems, fixing security gaps, and struggling with integrations often outweigh modernization investment within 3 to 5 years.

We begin by conducting a thorough assessment to gain deep insight into your existing systems. This involves mapping their technical health, operational costs, business criticality, security vulnerabilities, and integration challenges. This comprehensive understanding allows us to construct a powerful, data-driven business case that clearly justifies the investment in modernization and aligns it directly with your core strategic goals, demonstrating the tangible benefits of transformation.

We avoid a generic approach by critically evaluating distinct modernization strategies—such as Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Rearchitect, Rebuild, or Replace (the "6 R's")—for each significant legacy application. Our decisions are based on the specific technical context, your desired business outcomes, your organization's risk tolerance, and the projected return on investment for that particular application, ensuring the most optimal and tailored approach.

We establish a clear, data-driven framework to prioritize modernization initiatives effectively. This framework considers factors like business value impact, risk mitigation potential, technical dependencies, and overall feasibility. We then design a phased, incremental rollout plan to manage complexity, demonstrate value early, and minimize disruption to your critical business operations, ensuring a smooth transition and continuous progress.

We acknowledge that modernization impacts more than just technology; it affects established processes, team structures, and required skills. We proactively design and execute a comprehensive change management plan, ensuring clear communication with all stakeholders. We also implement strategies for upskilling or reskilling your workforce, preparing them to effectively operate and innovate within the new, modernized environment, ensuring your people are ready for the future.

When you get in touch, you'll connect with our experts to discuss your specific legacy system challenges and strategic business objectives. This initial conversation is an opportunity to explore how our consulting approach can help you define a robust, carefully planned modernization strategy that is perfectly aligned with your business goals. We'll discuss how to unlock agility, reduce risk, and enable future innovation, setting you up for long-term success in Europes competitive market and beyond.