Revitalise Your Software Apps with UX-Centric Application Modernisation
With Progryss’ expert application modernisation services, upgrade your legacy systems seamlessly to enhance your business potential, ensuring minimal downtime.
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Progryss offers a comprehensive suite of application modernisation services to facilitate your business’ digital evolution. Our bespoke services span detailed evaluation, strategic planning, and execution of the optimal “re” solution — rehosting, refactoring, rearchitecting, replacing, and retiring. We ensure your infrastructure, software, and workflows are updated and enhanced without any downtime.
Application Modernisation Consulting
Application Modernisation Consulting
Your firm has made substantial investments in existing software and systems, affecting not just finances but also workflow and culture. Our modernisation experts delve deep into your legacy infrastructure, code, business requirements, and objectives. With an in-depth understanding of your business’s technological needs, we craft tailor-made modernisation solutions using cutting-edge tools. This approach ensures the most cost-effective and efficient strategic improvements for your specific needs.
Legacy App Migration to Azure and AWS
Legacy App Migration to Azure and AWS
Cloud migration is pivotal for forward-thinking firms. Whether it’s transitioning from on-premise to cloud or upgrading your cloud infrastructure, our seasoned specialists can facilitate a hassle-free, swift, and economical migration.
Application Rehosting
Application Rehosting
Through a “lift and shift” approach, our experts assure a smooth transition of your existing architecture to a cloud environment best suited to your needs. The outcome is cost-efficiency and enhanced flexibility in providing future-forward services such as SaaS and PaaS.
Application Replatforming
Application Replatforming
Moving beyond rehosting, our replatforming specialists implement subtle, strategic changes to the app’s infrastructure. These tweaks enhance user experience and optimise performance, scalability, design, and resilience in the new cloud setting.
App Re-architecting or Refactoring
App Re-architecting or Refactoring
When your existing architecture restricts the full potential of cloud benefits, rely on our experts to redesign the architecture for maximised benefits. These include enhanced performance, improved load handling, fractional updates, cost-effective maintenance, and upgraded UI/UX. By restructuring or rewriting your app’s core code, your business will morph into a cloud-native application, best leveraging advanced cloud-enabled features like microservices and serverless computing. By converting your legacy app into a SaaS, you can provide a loved web and mobile experience for customers while streamlining your process and cutting operational costs.
Application Containerisation
Application Containerisation
In every approach to app modernisation, our developers utilise strategic containerisation, segregating your apps or their components into distinct packages. This reduces resource requirements, promoting scalability, flexibility, and continuous delivery and deployment.
Types of Application Modernisation
Re-architecting
Transforming the underlying architecture for improved performance and scalability.
Re-hosting
Moving an app to a new hosting environment, often a cloud platform.
Re-engineering
Modifying the system to enhance its functionality and performance.
Microservices
Breaking down the app into independent, loosely-coupled services for agility and scalability.
eCommerce Replatforming
Shifting your eCommerce platform to enhance functionality, UX, and integration capabilities.
Re-platforming
Altering the platform on which an app operates to improve its performance and reliability.
Refactoring
Restructuring existing code to improve non-functional attributes without changing its functionality.
Cloud Native Development
Designing apps specifically to harness the benefits of cloud computing environments.
DevOps
Integrating development and operations for continuous delivery and faster time-to-market.
UX Modernisation
Enhancing the user interface and experience to meet evolving customer expectations.
FAQs
Why is application modernisation important?
In plain terms, out-of-date systems are a liability that incurs costs in terms of money, time, resources, and potentially most significantly, customers. Essentially, application modernisation is a tool to help you maintain your technology investments to the greatest extent possible whilst identifying and addressing the areas where you’re falling behind. With the technological advancements of today, you’ll discover a myriad of straightforward, cost-effective methods to enhance both front-end and back-end functions.
Let’s delve a bit deeper into what application modernisation consulting and execution with Progryss involves:
Initially in application modernisation, we carry out an in-depth analysis of your existing system, taking into account your business objectives and how effectively your application(s) are supporting your business value, growth, and scalability. Our unwavering focus is on devising the most efficient and cost-effective strategy to optimise your digital business through bespoke legacy modernisation solutions.
Throughout the process, we aid you in finding clever methods to migrate your technology stack, transition from ineffective legacy code, support novel ways of working enabled by the cloud and retire any technology that’s hindering your business function.
Collectively, this application modernisation work accumulates — reducing your expenses (i.e., operating costs), future-proofing your business, and opening up new revenue streams (i.e., SaaS solutions).
How does one modernise an application?
If you’re questioning what is meant by app modernisation or what application modernisation is, the simple answer is it’s all about updating, upgrading, or replacing outdated technology so that your digital business operates quicker, more efficiently, and with greater responsiveness.
The methods employed by application modernisation providers like Progryss are dependent on your needs. The three core processes of app modernisation are:
Application Rehosting: This entails moving your existing technology stack with minimal changes from a private or on-site system to a cloud solution hosted ‘as a service’. This supports lower operating costs.
Application Replatforming: This process involves restructuring the code of your existing software to enhance its functionality and enable you to make better use of the cloud environment (i.e., superior structure, design, etc.)
App Re-architecting or Refactoring: To completely overhaul your existing system or workflow from a legacy solution to a cloud-based solution, a comprehensive approach to modernising the code design (i.e., to microservices or a serverless design) can provide you with a new way of working, as well as a cloud-native experience.
Moreover, there are ready-made options that can be customised (i.e., SaaS) to replace outmoded technology.
What does cloud application modernisation entail?
Modernisation signifies adapting all components of your business to a cloud-first approach. It implies adjusting organisational and operational processes, systems, and tools to make the most of the latest technology and the best practices in the industry.
Cloud application modernisation involves moving existing code, initially designed for on-premise operations, to a public, private, or hybrid cloud model. It brings about numerous advantages, such as:
- Enhanced user experience that’s faster and more responsive
- Strengthened security
- Improved scalability and flexibility
- Collaboration regardless of location
- Uninterrupted business continuity during transition
- Increased potential for innovation
- Expedited time to market
- A customer-centric approach that secures new business and enhances competitive advantage
What is AWS App Modernisation?
Amazon’s AWS is the gold standard for cloud computing, revered for its adaptability, reliability, and comprehensive offerings. AWS ensures a smooth and seamless cloud adoption journey. Born in the early 2000s, AWS originated from Amazon’s need for a robust infrastructure that could support third-party vendors and facilitate the company’s rapid growth. Today, AWS is the leading cloud provider, accounting for over 40% of all installed application workloads globally.
What is Azure App Modernisation?
Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform is renowned for being an intuitive platform as a service (PaaS) that enables users to develop, run, and maintain a wide range of applications using top-tier app modernisation tools. Since its inception in 2010, Azure has emerged as a leading cloud provider worldwide, supporting around a third of all installed application workloads.
How long does a typical application modernisation project take?
The duration of an application modernisation project can vary widely, from as little as a month or two for straightforward cloud migrations, code conversions, and UI updates to six or more months for replatforming and refactoring a moderate-sized business. Large, enterprise-level businesses with complex rearchitecting projects may require a year or more.
Importantly, most application modernisation projects are staged and designed to ensure ongoing business continuity without disruption to daily operations. Therefore, project duration is less critical than the timeline for implementing strategic upgrades and updates. Thanks to the modular approach of legacy modernisation solutions, you’ll witness efficiency and cost-saving improvements throughout the project.
What is the cost of application modernisation?
A common misconception about application modernisation is that it’s prohibitively expensive and demands significant investment of time, money, and resources. However, the reality is that in today’s competitive landscape, you can’t afford not to modernise.
The technical debt of your legacy apps accumulates over time, and the longer you delay updating your outdated systems, the greater the adverse impact on your business.
Nevertheless, app modernisation isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution, and application modernisation vendors’ fees can vary considerably. Our experienced team at Progryss offers end-to-end application modernisation consulting services, tailored to maximise opportunities and impact based on your budget and timeline. Factors influencing the cost of legacy application modernisation services include:
- The complexity of your application and related dependencies
- The volume of data to be migrated
- The degree of automation and the associated costs of software licences
- The readiness of your application’s lifespan for cloud migration
- The extent and parameters of testing
To identify the most cost-effective modernisation approach for your business, please contact us for a free consultation. It’s the perfect, no-cost way to start your application modernisation journey.