Applications
Core Applications That Keep Pace With the Business
We review the applications you run as a whole, decide what to keep, modernise, replace or retire, and carry out that decision in stages while the business continues to operate.
Our Point of View
Sequence your application portfolio by the cost of leaving each system as it stands. That directs investment to the systems that most deserve attention.
The Situation
Core applications grow year by year. Each year adds a customisation, an integration or a workaround, until a small change can take months and knowledge of the system rests with one person. A portfolio reviewed as a whole, with its decisions recorded, gives leadership a clear route forward, and working in stages avoids the risk and expense of wholesale replacement.
Our Approach
We begin by mapping what you run, what it costs and what it connects to, because a clear view of dependencies is what allows one system to be improved well. Each application then receives a decision to keep, modernise, replace or retire, and the work proceeds in stages. Every application we touch is documented and handed over, so that your team can maintain it.
What We Deliver
From an Inherited Portfolio to a Managed Estate
How We Engage
Your First Version in Four Weeks
One application or integration of defined scope reaches a first working version within four weeks, once the portfolio review has set the order. The full engagement runs to eight weeks, and modernisation across many systems follows its own plan.
Configuration on Your Data
We stand up the platform and load it with data representative of your business. By the close of week one, your stakeholders are reviewing a working system.
Expected Outcomes
What Leadership Should Expect to See
A Portfolio Seen as a Whole
Leadership holds a decision to keep, modernise, replace or retire each application, with costs and risks stated in one place.
Change Made With Confidence
Connected applications and documented dependencies mean that a change can be assessed before it is made, and that data moves once, with no retyping.
Less Dependence on Individuals
Documentation and a support model with named owners replace reliance on the one person who understands how the older system really works.
Industries
Where This Work Applies
Planning, stock and job systems are connected so that shop-floor records are entered once, and older systems can be modernised while production continues.
Ageing core applications are modernised in stages, so that services continue to operate while dependencies and risks are addressed in a stated order.
Store, online and order applications are connected so that customers and stock are recorded once, and licences for unused features can be reviewed.
Insights
Perspectives on Application Modernisation
Perspective · 4-minute read
Free Your Plan Catalogue From the Billing Core and Sell the Plans Your Market Wants
ExpandA billing system can decide which plans you sell without anyone choosing it. We map what you run, then modernise in stages so that new plans reach customers sooner.
Perspective · 5-minute read
Replace a Core Banking System in Stages the Bank Can Reverse
ExpandThe weekend cutover looks cheaper because its largest cost sits in a risk line. We plan a core replacement around the last point at which the bank can still turn back.
Guide · 5-minute read
Rehearse the Data Migration at Full Volume Until Go-Live Is Routine
ExpandData migration is often planned as a late task. We rehearse it early, at full volume and against the clock, with a reconciliation signed by the people who own the data.
Perspective · 4-minute read
Understand and Contain the Old System Before You Fund Its Replacement
ExpandAn old government system is often the fullest statement of how a scheme really runs. We map it, decide the future of each application, and modernise in stages while service continues.
Perspective · 4-minute read
Modernise in the Order of What Each System Costs to Leave Alone
ExpandThe useful question is which system costs most to leave alone. We review the whole portfolio, record a decision on each application, and modernise in stages your team can maintain.
Frequently Asked
Questions From Prospective Clients
Should the Oldest Application Be Modernised First?
Can Ageing Applications Be Modernised Without Stopping the Business?
The Vendor Has Announced an End of Support Date. Does That Settle the Decision?
Only One Person Understands Our Old System. How Is That Knowledge Protected?
Can the Portfolio Review Address Licensed Features That Sit Unused?
Must Our ERP, CRM or HR Platform Be Replaced to Stop People Retyping Data?
What Happens to the Other Applications During the Eight Weeks?
Explore Further
Related Services
Business Consulting
Clear direction on what to change first, and a plan with named owners that your people are able to carry out.
AI and Automation
Applied AI for document processing, knowledge and workflow, measured on your own records before it reaches production.
Data and Analytics
Agreed definitions, one source for the figures and reporting refreshed on a schedule, so that decisions rest on numbers the business accepts.
Next Step
Book an Appointment
Arrange a complimentary 30-minute conversation, with no obligation. You will leave with a candid view on whether the initiative is worth building and, if it is, a scope and a date, with the cost worked out together on the call. Alternatively, send an enquiry and we will respond.