Leveraging Legacy Services

Legacy systems are often a burden which eats budget, increases cyber security risk, demands increasingly scarce skills, locks away data and stifles innovation. In many cases, these systems will be performing vital business functions, and may well involve critical national infrastructure.

We provide an end-to-end approach to legacy transformation, from definition of the transformation strategy, through to the delivery of new platforms. Underpinning the strategy will be considerations on how to maximise an organisations ability to benefit from new technologies whilst obtaining value from data stored in legacy systems.

Addressing the challenge of legacy systems

Our proposition provides a proven and pragmatic approach to help organisations address the challenge of legacy systems. Our experience enables us to:

• Provide a clear vision of an open, flexible business and technical architecture. We avoid replacing ‘legacy’ with systems otherwise destined to become ‘more modern legacy’ by considering how the architecture can be designed to be updated, enhanced and integrated with new technologies as they are developed.  
• Develop treatment plans to address the business processes and practices related to the legacy systems in order to avoid the pitfalls of inadvertently switching off a vital data feed or process. 
• Identify data governance, data protection and data quality issues which must be addressed as part of the transformation, including data migration where necessary.
• Consider the many competing demands in a legacy transformation programme. These include: balancing business priorities, evaluating legacy infrastructure and technology, considering available resources and potential investment capacity, and then determining how best to optimise legacy digital infrastructure and integrate newer technologies to enable a digital first vision for your organisation.

Organisations can't simply escape legacy in the short term – However, we can help make sure they get the best out of what they already have and where possible, develop an approach to fixing it and moving forward with an ‘evergreen’ approach to future technology.