Legacy Application Modernization for a brighter business future
Legacy Application Modernization
A great application comes from a deep understanding of your challenges first—and an agile, iterative plan for how to solve them.
At MercuryWorks, we align a strong product vision with user needs. For more than 20 years, we’ve been a strategic partner for businesses looking to solve problems with software.
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Here are the classic signs of legacy software suffering from a high level of technical debt:
Minor Changes Require Major Time You have determined that you need to add two simple fields to your application; your development team greets you with pained looks and racks several days of work to make the change.
Code Updates Lead to BugsDuring the addition of the “two simple fields”, three reports break and the data update feature breaks. Seemingly unrelated features regress to broken states for no apparent reason.
Bug Fixes Demand Outsized EffortA problem comes in from the field that your application is rendering a key page in poor form on smartphones. The bug takes three days, your team is putting in excessive late hours to fix it, and senior dev staff must be called in.
Slow Application PerformanceYou use your app for day-to-day work, and the slowdown from how it worked a year ago is palpable. Workarounds mount and inefficient legacy code dominates the application, bringing it to a crawl.
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Application modernization services and benefits
Every legacy application and every business problem is different. Our application upgrade process is designed to customize your solution to fix the wicked problems that matter the most. However, here are a few direct benefits you can expect to see from MercuryWorks’ application modernization services.
Better User ExperienceBetter User Experience
Users will be more effective and enjoy modern design and UI features
Improved PerformanceImproved Performance
More responsiveness and less time on long-running tasks will enable users to get their jobs done quicker
Works On All Devices Works On All Devices
A modern responsive web design will make your application functional on desktops, phones, and tablets – meeting your users where they live
Lighter Lift for Dev Teams Lighter Lift for Dev Teams
Less technical debt and more automated testing makes for a predictable application and a happier, more strategic development team
Legacy Application Modernization FAQs
The following are several classic signs of legacy software suffering from a high level of technical debt:
Every legacy system is different, but there is often one tier (often the data tier) that can be kept and evolved. From time to time more is possible depending on your needs and budget. At MercuryWorks, we’ll work with you through the discovery and assessment phases to minimize reinventing the wheel. If there are parts that are working well in your current application, they can definitely stay.
When it comes to software, we recommend that you leave the Big Bang to science class. A paced and concerted effort over time wins the day here. We can help you prioritize high-impact changes first and iterate over time. This means less downtime and faster time to ROI for you.
First, we can rearchitect a monolithic legacy application into smaller, independent units called microservices, which carry out functions independently. This reduces time for maintenance and troubleshooting and makes adding features easier moving forward. Second, legacy systems often don’t allow for modern test automation. During the modernization process, we implement unit and integration tests so you’ll know right away when you break something in the future.
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Let’s TalkMercuryWorks application modernization case studies
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i9 Sports’ robust but legacy desktop-oriented software has driven their national youth sports leagues. Now they are driving into the 2020s with a modernized, mobile-optimized system.
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Franklin Street’s enterprise software modernization was performed without disrupting the day-to-day operations of the multiple divisions that are driven by it.
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Have key software in need of modernization?
Reach out to MercuryWorks and we’ll help you decide if we’re a good fit for your application modernization project. With careful analysis and prudent technical research, we will put together a plan to refresh and refit your key custom software.
Whether you’re saddled with legacy technology, large technical debt or on-premises systems in need of refitting for the cloud, we’ve got you covered.