Legacy Application
Modernization

Promote faster digital transformation journeys and build the foundation for future innovation with Geomotiv’s legacy application modernization services. We revive your cumbersome legacy software by updating applications and adopting Agile methodologies, integration-ready APIs, DevOps practices, Microservices architecture, and Cloud technologies.

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Up to 50%
of system efficiency with our legacy modernization services

Signs That Your Software
Requires Modernization

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If your company continues to use outdated technology, it can fail to grasp new opportunities and face roadblocks in addressing critical needs.

Other challenges include:

  • Inability to address changing business needs due to scalability and customizability limitations;
  • Increased technical debt due to low test coverage, complexity, and unmaintainable codebase;
  • Inefficiency and instability due to lack of vendor support and maintenance;
  • Security risks due to a lack of updates and patches to address exploitable vulnerabilities.
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A legacy modernization approach is viable in the following scenarios:

  • Replacement with an alternative solution has the budget and cost implications;
  • The app is an indispensable part of the product offering;
  • The app follows stringent security regulations.

It is time to modernize legacy applications if they lack the agility to respond to changing requirements, don’t generate business value, or no longer fit the current market conditions. From a technical perspective, legacy applications require urgent modernization when TCO, complexity, and operational risks increase.

Legacy System
Modernization Strategies

Legacy Application Modernization
Legacy Application Migration
Enterprise-Grade Software Development

Legacy Application Modernization

We unlock the new value of the front end of a legacy system by improving or enhancing its current capabilities. Our legacy system modernization services breathe a new life into the back-end code if it requires a complete re-architecture. However, we can redesign or upgrade it within the current infrastructure.

Legacy Application Migration

We ensure a seamless transition of your data, apps, infrastructure, or APIs without affecting core business logic and architecture. Geomotiv will develop a tailor-made legacy data migration strategy depending on the application and business needs while ensuring efficiency, continuity, and minimizing disruption.

Enterprise-Grade Software Development

We replace outdated though business-critical systems or develop them from scratch. Our legacy modernization services aim to replace or redesign the complete enterprise application system when it is impossible to reuse the existing legacy business logic.

Legacy System Modernization Strategies
Geomotiv Approaches to Legacy Application Migration

See how we handle legacy migration using the best industry practices.

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Geomotiv’s comprehensive approach to legacy app modernization encompasses the A to Z transformation of outdated technology through assessment, planning, implementation, and maintenance. Our extensive expertise lets you decouple monolithic code into individual components, move existing applications to more efficient business platforms, and shift outdated software systems to modern hosting solutions. We can also modify the required tools for Enterprise applications, substitute a legacy application, add more features and functionality, and retire aging systems or replace them with new solutions.

How We Enable Legacy App Modernization

Stage 1
Assessment

Initially, Geomotiv collects data about the legacy system, clarifying the business case for consecutive transformation and revealing potential gaps and roadblocks. Our team evaluates modernization’s business and technical sides to disclose the issues and concerns hindering innovation.

Stage 2
Planning

Then, we identify the steps necessary to reach the project’s milestones and prioritize further actions according to costs, benefits, and risk factors. Our team evaluates the scope of changes, estimates migration risks, chooses a modernization approach, and creates a comprehensive project roadmap.

Stage 3
Implementation

During this stage, legacy software transforms based on the chosen modernization approach and project goals. Our development team ensures ultimate product quality and timely delivery of envisioned functionality. We recommend implementing changes iteratively, which helps to release stable versions of software early and assess user feedback straightaway.

Stage 4
Maintenance

We ensure the software meets user expectations over time and runs to the best of its abilities. Our developers continuously fix bugs, observe performance, improve features, and maintain technical documentation and user manuals.

A Vast Scope of Application
Modernization Services

Encapsulation

As a simplistic approach to legacy app modernization, encapsulation enables you to decouple monolithic code into individual components and transform them into microservices. Our tech experts decompose the legacy software and make it available for flexible open-system platforms via API. We provide low-cost and low-risk legacy system modernization to meet your demands based on the wrapping technology, which leaves the code in the current environment.

Replatforming

We can move your existing applications to more efficient business platforms and preserve the existing functionality and business logic. We modify the system components to adapt the code to a new platform until they can run in new environments. The changes will be minimal for end-users, yet the modernized application will have faster speed and be easier to update, modify, and maintain.

Rehosting

If you opt for rehosting as the modernization strategy, we can move an outdated software system to modern hosting solutions without significant changes to the application’s features or functions. When shifting from legacy hardware to up-to-date open systems, we enable timely UI/UX updates, performance optimization, and database migration without reformatting. Port legacy software to virtual machines using our solid expertise to ensure a future-proof, cloud-native, microservices-based architecture.

Rearchitecting

Our rearchitecting application services involve unparalleled tools and methodologies to move on from legacy systems with medium risk. We are your strategic partner in shifting to a new application architecture while altering the code to make it ready for ecosystems with better capabilities. With us, you will take advantage of improved functionality, unrivaled scalability, and enhanced performance of renovated and polished architecture of your outdated software.

Reengineering

With a vast pool of legacy modernization skills, we can create a reengineering plan that aligns with your visions and goals. We prioritize and modify the required tools for your long-running enterprise applications by extracting the business-critical and antiquated features. As a result, we boost the system’s functionality and scalability and enhance its performance.

Refactoring

To smoothly substitute a legacy application and dig practical value in creating optimized code, we can refactor an application component without affecting its external behavior or functionality. With us, you will be able to remove technical debt, maximize the cost efficiency of each software part, and access UX updates just at the right time.

Rebuilding (Redesign)

If you want to add more features, functionality, and processes on top of the current system, opt for our rebuilding application modernization services. Our legacy modernization specialists will redesign the application’s parts from scratch without modifying their specifications to perform similar functions. Eventually, your app will rely on a renovated back-end but preserve the original front-end part with slight or minimal changes.

Replacing

When legacy code modernization isn’t worth investing in from technical and business perspectives, it is best to retire the aging system and move forward to a new solution that matches business requirements. While this approach falls out of the modernization paradigm, it is still an efficient way to move your business out of legacy code. In replacing obsolete systems, our teams help replace existing components with new parts built from scratch and bring new business logic to your product.

Rebuild, update or totally replace?

We provide a whole range of legacy modernization services depending on your needs. Gain a trusted partner to support your transformational journey to a modern environment.

Key Tech Stacks
for Legacy App Modernization

Clouds

AWS
Google Cloud
Microsoft Azure

Containerization and Orchestration

Docker
Kubernetes

DevOps

Maven
Gradle
GitHub

API

REST API
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Models of Cooperation With Us

IT Staff Augmentation
Project-Based Outsourcing

Dedicated Development Team

Want to work with an external team that will provide you with legacy software modernization services and will be fully managed by you? Then, the dedicated team model is precisely what you need. While you do not need to take care of all the headhunting, hiring, and other related processes and tasks, you will have a team of professionals who will stay fully engaged in your project. We will manage to assemble a team in full accordance with your requirements.

IT Staff Augmentation

Let’s imagine that you already have your in-house team of experts working on modernizing your legacy systems and obsolete apps. But your inner resources are insufficient to cope with the set tasks in the required time frames. Staff augmentation will be an excellent choice in this case. Our specialists can join your team at any project realization stage and contribute value to your software modernization efforts.

Project-Based Outsourcing

If you are looking for a team that can be responsible for a full cycle of legacy app modernization services, we can help. Our specialists have multi-year experience working with different kinds of legacy software and can help you breathe new life into your solutions regardless of their complexity. We can conduct an in-depth analysis of the current state of your apps and systems and find the best approach to addressing the existing pains.

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Benefit from Legacy
Application Modernization

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Optimize business processes and gain better performance
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Mitigate operational risks and cut related losses
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Enable seamless integration with all parts of IT infrastructure
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Comply with the latest security requirements and gain protection from cyber threats
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Reduce total costs on business operations: maintenance, infrastructure, and security
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Improve customer satisfaction and brand reputation
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Incorporate innovative technologies and trends in your application
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Improve current offerings and create new ways of serving customers
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Keep pace with the modern demands of digital businesses

Top-Tier Legacy Software Modernization Company

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Right Development Process

The Geomotiv team will help you to employ the right legacy system modernization strategy suitable for your business needs. Often dealing with legacy systems, our teams have developed a mature approach to meet the needs of an organization. With us, you can remove barriers to digital transformation, reach your goals faster, and benefit from cost-effective services without hidden expenses.

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Agile Approach

We follow the best practices of Agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban to accelerate the provision of legacy modernization services. With us, you can reduce delivery time and implement higher quality applications with fewer errors by enabling incremental releases and gaining continuous feedback from end-users.

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Technology Proficiency

Our cross-functional experts possess hands-on experience with legacy code migration and modernization projects based on innovative tech stacks. Our team managed to optimize and reduce the TCO of one of the fastest prediction-based RTB systems, migrate a legacy system to the cloud within a short timeframe, and address complex modernization challenges of other organizations.

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What is a legacy application?

A legacy application is a system that is based on outdated technology but remains critical to the operation of the enterprise. Due to lack of support to meet new business requirements or technological inability to scale or integrate with the latest platforms, such a system requires modernization or redesign or complete replacement in extreme cases.

What are the examples of legacy software?

We can find legacy software examples across numerous use cases within organizations. Some of them underestimate the importance of legacy application retirement, while others have already taken steps to implement legacy system modernization strategies. These examples include CRM, supply chain management and order processing systems, financial management software, business intelligence tools, billing and invoicing management platforms, and many others.

What are legacy services in IT?

As legacy software is those products that are irrelevant in ongoing business conditions, legacy-related services aim to increase their efficiency and value for users. These services can include modernization, enhancement, or total or partial replacement.

How to modernize legacy applications?

Companies need to plan out how they will approach legacy application modernization to eliminate overspending and save resources. The first step is to evaluate the obsolete system using business and IT drivers, including, among other things, lack of business agility and security risks. The next step is to weigh legacy system modernization options that vary depending on the ease of implementation. Finally, it is necessary to choose the right modernization approach based on its effect on the system’s structure, functionality, and cost.

What is legacy application modernization?

Legacy app modernization is updating and renovating the company’s existing business application to respond to current business and technical needs. Depending on the modernization approach, we can move legacy apps to more resilient environments, power them with new-age functionalities, or revamp their architecture.

Why do companies prefer using legacy systems instead of modernizing them?

Many companies choose to maintain aging legacy software instead of modernizing them for the following reasons:

  1. Decision-makers are resistant to change and reluctant to step out of their comfort zone;
  2. The current project requires continuous use of the original system;
  3. Lack of time and resources to undergo app modernization;
  4. An outdated system is still efficient in facilitating critical operations;
  5. Data sources, formats, and dependencies are difficult to convert from legacy to modern apps.
Why choose Geomotiv for legacy app modernization?

Geomotiv is a software development company with a solid technological background and proficiency in classic and modern tech stacks. We help businesses transform legacy apps into innovative, competitive, and user-friendly solutions.

If you want an experienced partner to enable digital transformation, don’t hesitate to contact Geomotiv. We can help you design a unique modernization strategy, choose the right approach, and implement the transition from aging to cutting-edge software.

How do APIs help to modernize legacy applications?

APIs allow bringing together disparate software systems through reusable wrappers and connectors. They enable access to specific information from legacy systems, decompose complex data into microservices, and adapt the functionality to new requirements.

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