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Legacy Systems and Software Modernisation

Be Prepared for a Digital World - Modernise Your Existing Software Applications

#1 Global Microsoft Partner for Modernizing Applications

Is Your Organisation Experiencing Legacy Issues?

Have you heavily invested in your legacy software over the years, but find that they no longer deliver the performance or functionality you require?

Version 1 helps customers across the UK and Ireland derive optimal value from existing systems.

We are in a rapidly changing Digital era, and businesses face increasing pressure to change the way they operate. We don’t believe you should let the investment you have already made go to waste – we can help you to modernise your core business systems and legacy applications to work in the way you need them to. That could involve integrating them with other key systems, making them available across web and mobile devices, extending functionality, or migrating your legacy application(s) to the Public Cloud.

Let us help you renovate and modernise your existing applications and systems to meet your needs now, and in the future with our expert legacy Application Modernisation services.

#1 Global Microsoft Partner for Modernizing Applications

We are thrilled to announce that Version 1 has been named Microsoft’s Global Partner of the Year 2023 for Modernizing Applications!

The accolade came out of our partnership with National Highways for the innovative transformation of their critical National Incident Liaison Officers (NILO) application.

Our Approach to Application Modernisation

Discover
What is the health of the application? What compelling events, strategy or constraints are influencing the future of the estate? We deliver fast, time-boxed engagements to illuminate a way forward.
Advise
No need to start from scratch to innovate, plan for emergent requirements and innovation within your modernised business-critical application.
Protect
Your systems already deliver important business value. We protect and maximise re-use of your existing investment, surfacing hidden and emergent value, and innovating within the existing estate.
Enhance
Exploit modern capability available on cloud to deliver real value to your business. Improve the elasticity and availability of your estate to optimise value for money without sacrificing service reliability.
Migrate
Quickly move application estates to cloud with proven, repeatable, best-practice approaches to cloud migration. Leverage our Factory model for high volume, well-understood workloads, and our Service model for complex systems.
Run
Share or delegate risk and operational responsibility to a partner with a proven track record of supporting, managing, and improving enterprise cloud and digital estates for secure Government, Retail, Finance, Health, Energy and Utility customers.

Why Modernise? Benefits of Improving Your Existing Applications and Legacy Software

  • Increase Efficiency
  • Increase Scalability
  • Stabilise Legacy Systems
  • Enhance Security
  • Reduce Maintenance Costs
  • Reduce Datacentre Costs
  • Improve User Experience
  • Futureproof IT Initiatives
  • Avoid Legacy Skill Dependencies (e.g. COBOL)
  • Align IT to Strategic Business Objectives

Accelerated By Extensive Public Cloud Expertise

Our expertise is more than ‘just Cloud’. Version 1’s capabilities go beyond our platform expertise, with our deep understanding and experience in the application and data technologies and workloads that sit on Cloud platforms. We are system integrators with expertise across the full stack. We have over 20 years’ experience implementing, managing and improving mission-critical applications for customers across all sectors. From legacy software, to custom-built system solutions and commercial off-the-shelf packages, Version 1 has the Cloud Application Migration expertise to help define a viable path to Cloud for your legacy systems, applications and data should you wish to take this route.

Common Issues

  • Platform Obsolescence
    Unsupported platforms can leave customers vulnerable to cybersecurity threats and create compliance issues. Legacy platforms are costly to support and are severely lacking in features and capability compared to modern public cloud platforms.
  • Emergent Requirements
    Customers demand change to improve services, drive margin, capitalise on opportunities, and meet legislative or regulatory commitments. As estates mature and technical debt grows, change becomes more difficult and costly.
  • Data Centre Consolidation
    Internal factors like mergers, acquisitions or divestitures, as well as contract-expiry, along with external factors like cloud market disruption provide opportunities to reduce or eliminate expensive data centres, lower costs and reinvest savings.
  • Contracts, Licenses up for Renewal
    Renewal dates provide natural motivation to compare the value of heritage arrangements with modern offerings. Paradigm-shifts which were previously unthinkable are now proven, e.g, on-premise database to PaaS conversion.
  • Security Concerns
    Legacy technology stacks are fertile ground for increasingly sophisticated attacks. Penalties for breaches of personal data can be business-ending. While the core functionality may not need to change, the underpinning technology must be secure.
  • Modern User Expectations
    Modern users expect modern interfaces which operate on modern devices. In all industries, end-users are increasingly mobile and diverse. Accessibility has become a hard requirement (especially in government).

Eight Key Principles for Safely and Successfully Migrating Applications to the Public Cloud

Version 1 has laid out a range of best practice principles and objectives for any Cloud migration journey to ensure our customers embark on Cloud migrations safely. Download your copy now to access our best practice principles and objectives for any Cloud Migration journey.

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