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Application Development and Modernization

We rebuild aging applications on current platforms while the existing system keeps running, then hand over software your team can maintain.

Most organizations don’t need a new system so much as a safer path off the old one. We modernize in steps: understand what the application really does, keep it running, and replace it a piece at a time until the old code can be retired. The result is software built on mainstream tools, documented well enough for your own team or another vendor to support.

Problems we help with

  • A business-critical application runs on technology few people can still support, such as classic ASP, older PHP, or unsupported frameworks.
  • Routine changes need a developer and a release because rules and reference data are hard-coded.
  • Staff work around the system with spreadsheets, email, and manual uploads.
  • A full replacement feels too risky because the organization cannot afford a long outage or a big-bang cutover.

What we deliver

We work in your existing stack where it makes sense. See the technologies we work with.

Assessment and roadmap

We review the code, data, integrations, and users, then recommend what to keep, retire, replace, or modernize, with the risks of each.

Incremental modernization

New components are introduced alongside the legacy system and take over function by function, so users move gradually instead of all at once.

Custom web and mobile applications

Web applications and APIs in .NET and React, and mobile apps where field or public users need them.

Configurable business rules and metadata

We move frequently changing rules and reference data out of code, so program staff can make routine changes safely.

Workflow automation

Manual approvals, uploads, and hand-offs are replaced with tracked, auditable workflows.

How it works

How a modernization moves

  1. Assess

    Review the code, data, integrations and users, and decide what to keep, retire, replace or modernize.

  2. Build alongside

    Introduce new components next to the legacy system, wrapping it with APIs where that helps.

  3. Move one function

    Users move to the new component for one function, while everything else stays where it is.

  4. Reconcile the data

    Migrate that function's data and verify it with a reconciliation before anyone relies on it.

  5. Retire the old code

    When every function has moved, the legacy code is switched off and the new system is documented for your team.

Steps 2 to 4 repeat: Repeat for each function until the old code can be retired

How we modernize: the existing system keeps running while new components take over one function at a time.

Talk to us about Application Modernization.

Tell us what you are trying to change. We will reply with practical next steps, whether or not we turn out to be the right fit.

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