Legacy modernisation

The system works. Whoever wrote it left years ago.

Replacing a system that the business depends on is not a technical problem — it is a risk problem. We treat it as one.

Symptoms

Does this sound familiar?

  • Any change takes weeks, and nobody can promise what else it will break.
  • It runs on a version that stopped receiving support some time ago.
  • Half the business rules live in the code and are written down nowhere else.
  • The people who could answer questions about it have retired or moved on.
  • You have tried to replace it once already, and it did not go well.
Method

How we approach it

01 — Map

Dependencies before anything else

What calls what, which reports, jobs and integrations depend on it, and which rules exist only in the code. Most failed migrations skipped this.

02 — Decide

Target architecture, argued

Chosen against the map and against your constraints — not against whatever is fashionable. Written down, with the reasoning.

03 — Build

The new one runs beside the old

Both live at once, reading the same data, so you compare real results in production before trusting anything.

04 — Migrate

Piece by piece, with a way back

Never a single switch on a weekend. Each step is reversible, and the old system stays available until it is genuinely unused.

Deliverables

What you get

  • A dependency map of what the system actually touches.
  • Target architecture, with the reasoning behind each decision.
  • A migration plan where every step has a rollback.
  • The new system in production, with the old one still reachable.
  • The documentation that should have existed all along.
Stack

Technologies

OracleSQL ServerPostgreSQLMySQLSSISInformatica PowerCenterREST / SOAP.NETPHPJava
Someone who has been here

Mastercard

An integration platform moved off Informatica PowerCenter onto SSIS — strategy through execution, without interrupting the operation.

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A tangled integration, a slow database, a system nobody understands any more. The first conversation is 30 minutes and costs nothing.