Application modernization services

Turn outdated applications into modern solutions to stay competitive, efficient, and flexible while cutting maintenance costs. Helpware Tech’s application modernization services upgrade legacy software without disrupting your business operations. We provide transparent communication at every stage, so you get full visibility into how your investment delivers value.

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Application modernization services we deliver

Our software development experts use an incremental approach to legacy modernization, ensuring no downtime or disruptions to your business processes.

Modernization strategy

We thoroughly assess your legacy applications and conduct compliance, functionality, and security audits. This process allows us to understand their current state, identify areas for improvement, and choose the optimal modernization approach. Our strategy ensures your application evolves to meet current business demands while positioning it for future growth.

Legacy app cloud migration

Depending on your application and business needs, HW.Tech helps you adopt cloud technology through re-hosting, re-platforming, re-factoring, cloud-native implementation, or another approach. We build resilient cloud infrastructures, enabling you to lower operational costs, scale your software up and down on demand, reduce time to market, and enhance accessibility.

Legacy data modernization

HW.Tech’s software modernization experts migrate legacy databases to modern environments while ensuring data integrity, security, and seamless integration with your current systems. We leverage cloud-native solutions and advanced data management practices to unlock new capabilities, improve performance, and future-proof your data infrastructure.

Legacy system transformation

We incorporate modern technologies and methodologies to rejuvenate legacy systems, helping you enhance application performance while reducing maintenance and support costs. Legacy system transformation turns sluggish, unresponsive software into a slick, high-performing solution aligned with your current and future business requirements.

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Application refactoring

HW.Tech’s legacy modernization professionals restructure and optimize your application code without altering its external behavior. This approach allows us to improve the code’s performance, maintainability, and readability while preserving its core logic. In other words, your software retains its core functionality, but becomes more reliable and better optimized.

Application recoding

We modernize legacy apps built on outdated languages and platforms (PowerBuilder, Delphi, COBOL, etc) by recoding them with the latest programming languages, frameworks, and databases. This results in improved performance, maintainability, and scalability while enabling your solution to seamlessly integrate with modern cloud services, APIs, and third-party tools.

Application rearchitecting

We redesign an application’s architecture to make it more scalable, flexible, integration-friendly, and secure. With a modern modular architecture, your software becomes easier to maintain, evolve, and scale. It also enables you to leverage distributed computing, cloud elasticity, and resilience for faster innovation and business agility.

Application containerization

Our app modernization services include encapsulating applications or their components into containers isolated from each other at the OS level. This allows you to use fewer resources to run these apps, scale them more easily, and ensure seamless portability across development, testing, and production environments as well as easy integration with CI/CD practices.

Monolith to microservices migration

Our software engineers help you migrate from a monolithic to a microservices architecture, breaking your application into small, independent services. This enables you to update and scale each service without affecting the entire application. Such an approach improves fault isolation, allows for faster development and deployment, and enables flexibility in the technology stack.

Legacy modernization backed by certifications and awards

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Technology stack for legacy software modernization

We use the latest technologies and best practices to modernize legacy applications of any scale and complexity.

Programming languages and frameworks

Data solutions

DevOps

Big data & machine learning

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Benefits of software modernization

Software modernization services help SMEs and large enterprises transform their processes and solve various business challenges.

Reduce maintenance costs by simplifying codebases, eliminating legacy dependencies, and automating testing, monitoring, and deployment processes

Deliver better customer experience with updated UI/UX design, improved performance, and new features your clients have long requested

Make your application compatible with newer technologies, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, APIs, microservices, cloud computing, and more

Ensure flexible scalability by leveraging cloud infrastructure, containerization, and microservices architecture, so your apps adapt to evolving business needs

Introduce state-of-the-art security and ensure regulatory compliance with government regulations and industry standards

Streamline business processes and improve team productivity through workflow automation and advanced technologies.

Our industry expertise

As a legacy software modernization company, HW.Tech helps healthcare, pharmaceutical, and fintech businesses eliminate technical debt and embrace digital transformation.

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Healthcare

Our legacy modernization services enable healthcare organizations to seamlessly integrate patient data into a unified platform, improve operational efficiency, and enhance treatment delivery.

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Pharmaceutical

By upgrading outdated systems, we enable pharmaceutical businesses to streamline drug discovery, automate clinical trials, and bring quality drugs to market much faster.

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Fintech

Through software modernization, we empower fintech companies to improve system scalability, boost security, and ensure compliance with ever-changing financial regulations.

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Our 4-step legacy app modernization process

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Assessment We assess the current state of your applications, run thorough audits, and analyze software documentation.

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Problem identification HW.Tech’s software modernization experts pinpoint key problems and challenges to be addressed with the upgrade.

Step 3

Modernization approach We choose the optimal modernization approach based on the current state of your software, business challenges, and needs.

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Implementation and documentation At this stage, our team implements and documents the changes to facilitate further app maintenance and evolution.

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Legacy app modernization recognized by industry leaders

Trusted by startups, SMEs, and Fortune 500 companies, HW.Tech delivers top-notch legacy modernization services, empowering customers to meet evolving market demands.

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Why HW.Tech?

100% compliance

We create software with compliance in mind, ensuring adherence to government regulations and standards in your industry.

Uncompromised quality

We develop ISO 25010-compliant custom software solutions that deliver superior performance while helping you achieve your business objectives.

Visibility & control

You gain access to a centralized project dashboard with regular progress reports, and all upcoming expenses are discussed in advance.

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Your IP, our support

You retain full intellectual property rights to your product(s). We also provide post-launch maintenance and support with regular security audits.

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Client testimonials

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Clutch

“Helpware Tech’s high-quality work received glowing praises from the client due to their organized and transparent development. Their outstanding project management complemented their top-notch coding skills — they were flexible, accommodating, and easy to work with.“

Jordan Waid Director, Percepi Knowledge Ltd

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Clutch

“Transparency in communication is a fantastic skill for a partner to have. In addition, Helpware Tech proved their expertise among a vast range of technologies, which was emphasized by our client. The project manager was extremely responsive. He was available 24/7 to cover all questions and demonstrate progress as needed.“

Andre Kholodov CEO, ADUK GmbH

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“The solution that Helpware Tech developed is fully-functional and mobile-friendly. It meets all of the company's expectations. The company appreciated the team's project management, as it suited their own structure. The team even made themselves flexible to accomodate the company's schedule.”

Corbin Fraser Group Product Manager, Mobile Services, Bitcoin.com

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"I’d recommend HW.Tech because I felt their engagement and understanding of our business. They offered the best solution provision of what we were looking for. They were very responsive to the requests, very flexible, just going in flow with our changes."

Alan Ball Managing Partner, Octagon Medical Practice

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"With the support of our partners, we have created a platform that will provide developers with an efficient way to raise project capital and enable investors to actively choose which carbon offset projects they would like to support. Helpware Tech is a highly reliable and efficient development partner, providing excellent project management, timely communication, and commitment to go the extra mile when needed."

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End-to-end development

We take full responsibility for your product, from initial concept to final delivery, working closely with stakeholders at every stage of the development process.

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Dedicated team

We dedicate a team to your project and manage it on your behalf, freeing up your time for core business activities.

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Team augmentation

We bridge your talent gaps by integrating our brightest minds into your in-house team while you maintain full control over your project.

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FAQ

I have legacy software that needs an upgrade. However, it doesn’t have documentation. Can HW.Tech help me in this case?

Absolutely! We provide legacy modernization services, regardless of whether your software has documentation or not. Our team will thoroughly analyze your app to understand its architecture and functionality. We will work closely with you and stakeholders to gather requirements and ensure that the upgraded software meets your expectations and needs. Additionally, we will document the new system so that you will have all the resources you need for future application development and maintenance.

How to tell if I need legacy application modernization?

There are five signs that you need modernization solutions:

1. Software maintenance requires too many resources. If you’ve noticed that your software has become too expensive to maintain, it’s high time you opted for legacy application modernization.

2. Integrating new features is challenging or impossible. Legacy applications have a hard time integrating with newer technologies and require lots of custom code. If introducing new features and improvements has become too cumbersome, consider upgrading your software.

3. Your app hinders your business growth. If your solution no longer satisfies your business needs and hinders your growth, it’s yet another sign that you should undertake legacy app modernization.

4. Your legacy system lacks security. Legacy systems are created with outdated technologies, programming languages, and frameworks, making them susceptible to cyberattacks and other security threats. If your application no longer meets security standards, you'd better invest in legacy modernization before it’s compromised.

5. Your app damages the user experience. To provide the best user experience, you should be quick to respond to user needs. Whenever customers require new features, it’s in your best interest to introduce them as quickly as possible. With legacy systems, however, it becomes challenging or plain impossible. Another reason to consider software modernization.

Is it possible to modernize legacy applications without operational downtime?

Sure thing! We can modernize your legacy software with minimal to no operational downtime. To achieve this, we focus on phased transition, meaning that we update your system incrementally, so your business continues running while we’re improving your solutions.