Legacy Software Modernisation
Frustrated with wasting money on a slow under-performing legacy IT system? We can build you a powerful system that will help your business.
What is legacy software?
Across the UK, many organisations still rely on legacy IT systems and products. However, maintaining these systems is increasingly difficult, with a shrinking pool of skilled professionals, costly and unreliable replacement hardware, and security concerns. The thought of upgrading can feel overwhelming.
Legacy systems were originally built to operate in isolation, without the ability to integrate or share data with other systems. While this wasn’t a concern before the early 2000s, today’s fast-evolving technology landscape has turned it into a major drawback.
Across the UK, many organisations still rely on legacy IT systems and products. However, maintaining these systems is increasingly difficult, with a shrinking pool of skilled professionals, costly and unreliable replacement hardware, and security concerns. The thought of upgrading can feel overwhelming.
Legacy systems were originally built to operate in isolation, without the ability to integrate or share data with other systems. While this wasn’t a concern before the early 2000s, today’s fast-evolving technology landscape has turned it into a major drawback.
Is it time to update your legacy applications?
Modernising legacy software is the first step towards business agility. It allows you to swiftly adapt to market shifts, generate insightful reports with ease, reduce costs, and enhance employee satisfaction. Say goodbye to tedious, time-consuming manual workarounds, enabling your team to deliver superior customer service more efficiently. It’s a win-win scenario.
Your upgraded system will also enable you to leverage the latest innovations that drive business value, including cloud computing, social media, big data, and mobile technology.
Modernising legacy software is the first step towards business agility. It allows you to swiftly adapt to market shifts, generate insightful reports with ease, reduce costs, and enhance employee satisfaction. Say goodbye to tedious, time-consuming manual workarounds, enabling your team to deliver superior customer service more efficiently. It’s a win-win scenario.
Your upgraded system will also enable you to leverage the latest innovations that drive business value, including cloud computing, social media, big data, and mobile technology.
How we can help you
We recognise that replacing your legacy software is a major decision, and it’s essential to make the right choice for the future success of your business.
Opting for Geecon means placing your trust in experienced hands. From the outset, we will collaborate closely with you and your team to understand your business, assess the constraints of your current system, and define the essential features your new system must provide. This stage is vital, as modernising your technology is a customised process designed to meet your company’s specific needs.
We can then either:
We recognise that replacing your legacy software is a major decision, and it’s essential to make the right choice for the future success of your business.
Opting for Geecon means placing your trust in experienced hands. From the outset, we will collaborate closely with you and your team to understand your business, assess the constraints of your current system, and define the essential features your new system must provide. This stage is vital, as modernising your technology is a customised process designed to meet your company’s specific needs.
We can then either:
- Migrate key functionalities, including proprietary business processes or formulas, to a modern system that seamlessly integrates with the latest technologies. We will develop a brand-new system tailored to your needs, allowing you to retire the outdated legacy system once the transition is fully completed.
Regardless of the option you select, we will utilize cutting-edge and powerful technologies to develop a blueprint for a system that enhances efficiencies by:
- Managing the input of data.
- Optimizing how the data progresses through the workflow stages.
- Guaranteeing that your team efficiently completes tasks.
- Alerting you when something seems abnormal.
- Guiding the user through each task to ensure nothing falls through the cracks, is misinterpreted, or is entered incorrectly.
The result will be well-informed management, productive users, and satisfied customers.
Data migration
We recognise that replacing your legacy software is a major decision, and it’s essential to make the right choice for the future success of your business.
Opting for Geecon means placing your trust in experienced hands. From the outset, we will collaborate closely with you and your team to understand your business, assess the constraints of your current system, and define the essential features your new system must provide. This stage is vital, as modernising your technology is a customised process designed to meet your company’s specific needs.
We can then either:
We recognise that replacing your legacy software is a major decision, and it’s essential to make the right choice for the future success of your business.
Opting for Geecon means placing your trust in experienced hands. From the outset, we will collaborate closely with you and your team to understand your business, assess the constraints of your current system, and define the essential features your new system must provide. This stage is vital, as modernising your technology is a customised process designed to meet your company’s specific needs.
We can then either:
Process
Starting from the planning phase, our software architecture team meticulously analyses the complexities of your business, developing a deep understanding of its daily operations.
This often leads staff to pinpoint areas in the workflow they feel could be improved, along with key functionalities vital to their roles. We carefully consider these insights, engaging with both management and users while also incorporating our own recommendations.
We also dedicate time to meticulously analysing and documenting your existing system, leaving no detail overlooked. From our experience, this is crucial for a seamless system transition—overlooking this step can lead to functionality gaps that may only become apparent once the new system is live, making them challenging and expensive to fix. It’s our duty to ensure this doesn’t happen.
Next, we document all our findings and develop a prototype of the new system, helping you visualise its design, functionality, and operation, even at this early planning stage.
Further information about the process is available on our "Working With Us" page.
Geecon is a Microsoft partner, specialising in ASP.Net MVC5 with HTML5 and C# as our core technologies. We use WPF for desktop and tablet components, while WCF Web Services facilitate seamless system integration. Our primary database is Microsoft SQL Server, leveraging its core Database Engine, Integration, Analysis, and Reporting services. Additionally, we can work with MySQL systems if preferred.
If you need assistance with your legacy software modernisation project, call our team on 0800 987 5449.
Starting from the planning phase, our software architecture team meticulously analyses the complexities of your business, developing a deep understanding of its daily operations.
This often leads staff to pinpoint areas in the workflow they feel could be improved, along with key functionalities vital to their roles. We carefully consider these insights, engaging with both management and users while also incorporating our own recommendations.
We also dedicate time to meticulously analysing and documenting your existing system, leaving no detail overlooked. From our experience, this is crucial for a seamless system transition—overlooking this step can lead to functionality gaps that may only become apparent once the new system is live, making them challenging and expensive to fix. It’s our duty to ensure this doesn’t happen.
Next, we document all our findings and develop a prototype of the new system, helping you visualise its design, functionality, and operation, even at this early planning stage.
Further information about the process is available on our "Working With Us" page.
Geecon is a Microsoft partner, specialising in ASP.Net MVC5 with HTML5 and C# as our core technologies. We use WPF for desktop and tablet components, while WCF Web Services facilitate seamless system integration. Our primary database is Microsoft SQL Server, leveraging its core Database Engine, Integration, Analysis, and Reporting services. Additionally, we can work with MySQL systems if preferred.
If you need assistance with your legacy software modernisation project, call our team on 0800 987 5449.