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What modernisation is

Improving the systems you already run, so they can carry what comes next.

Modernisation improves the applications, integrations and infrastructure your business already depends on. It is selective and incremental: each part is decided on its own merits, and the business keeps running while the work moves.

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01 / What it covers

Three layers of the systems you already run.

Modernisation is not replacing everything that is old. It is making what the business depends on dependable, supported and easier to change, so it can carry the next stage of growth instead of holding it back.

  • Applications

    The web applications, services and desktop clients your people and customers use every day, and the business rules built into them over years.

  • Integrations

    The feeds, queues, APIs and scheduled jobs that move data between systems. Often the least documented part of the estate, and the first to break when something else changes.

  • Infrastructure

    Where it all runs: servers on your premises, AWS or Azure, and the identity, monitoring, backup and recovery around them.

Most programmes touch all three. A change to an application usually means a change to how it is reached, and to where it runs.

02 / Your estate, path by path

Not every system gets the same treatment.

Each part of the estate is decided on its own merits. Some of it stays as it is, some gets a modern interface, some moves in stages and some is retired.

Your estate, made up of web applications and services, desktop applications, shared libraries and databases, and integrations and scheduled jobs, is decided path by path: keep, wrap with a modern interface, migrate in stages, or retire. The outcome is a system the team can rely on, less effort to maintain, continuity while work moves, and easier future change.

01Your estate

  • Web apps and servicesASP.NET, MVC and WCF
  • Desktop applicationsWinForms and similar clients
  • Shared libraries and dataWhat several systems depend on
  • Integrations and jobsQueues, feeds and scheduled work

02Decided path by path

  • AKeepStable and still earning its keep
  • BWrapA modern interface over a stable core
  • CMigrate in stagesMoved to current .NET in slices
  • DRetireNo longer carrying load

03What the business gets

  • Reliable systemsFewer incidents interrupting the work
  • Less maintenance effortSupported, documented, easier to patch
  • ContinuityThe business runs while work moves
  • Easier future changeIncluding automation, where you want it

Keeping a system is a decision, not a failure to act. The investment already made in a stable system keeps paying back, and the effort goes where it changes something. Our view on technology value sets out why.

03 / Where we focus

.NET estates at the core, with the platform around them.

We work end to end on .NET estates, from discovery and target architecture through phased delivery to a handover that lets your team carry the codebase forward.

  • .NET modernisation

    Our core practice. ASP.NET Web Forms, MVC, WCF and WinForms applications stabilised, then moved to current .NET in slices.

    About .NET modernisation

  • Cloud remediation

    When the AWS or Azure estate underneath the applications has drifted on cost, access or recovery, we bring it back under control.

    About cloud remediation

  • Microsoft Dynamics

    Dynamics has its own practice. Many modernisation programmes touch it, and we hold both in one engagement when that is the right shape.

    About Microsoft Dynamics

04 / Old and new

Building new parts is modernisation too.

Modernisation is not only work on old code. A programme often needs something new: a customer portal in front of an older system, a service that takes one job away from a large application, or an API layer so other systems can reach the data safely.

Building those inside a modernisation programme is modernisation, and we treat it the same way: in stages, against evidence agreed before the work starts, with the existing system in service until the new part is accepted.

A wholly new product, built from a blank page, is a different kind of work. We cover it under engineering.

Where automation is on your roadmap, the same work prepares for it. Sometimes that means a move to current .NET, and sometimes a governed interface in front of a stable system, so automation can work with it under the authority and controls you set.

Common questions

What .NET leaders usually ask first.

We are on .NET Framework. Do we have to rebuild?

Rarely as a first move. Most .NET Framework estates have more life in them than vendor upgrade messaging implies. We start by reading what is actually carrying load and decide path by path whether to keep it, wrap it with a modern interface, migrate it to current .NET in stages, or retire it. A rebuild is sometimes the right call, and when it is we say so.

Does modernisation have to be about AI?

No. Most customers modernise for stability, lower maintenance effort and easier development. A modernised system is also easier for automation to work with safely, so if automation is on your roadmap the same work prepares for it.

What about Microsoft Dynamics or our cloud estate?

Microsoft Dynamics has its own practice, covered on our Microsoft Dynamics page. Cloud remediation, AWS and Azure work sit under Infrastructure. Most modernisation engagements touch one or both, and we hold them as one engagement when that is the right shape.

More on modernisation

Keep reading.

Start with the estate

Find out which path suits each of your systems.

A Modernisation Assessment maps your estate and ranks what to keep, wrap, migrate or retire by risk and value, with cost and timeline ranges for each path.

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