For companies · modernization and takeover
Your system runs. It just isn't enough anymore.
Shutting it down for six months to build a new one isn't an option. The company has to keep running, and clients shouldn't notice the change, except that things suddenly got simpler.
How you'll know it's time
Two of these are enough.
- Every small change takes months and no one can explain why.
- Vendor says your platform does not support new requirements.
- The company's core workflow runs in a shared spreadsheet that three people understand.
- Someone retypes data between systems by hand and everyone jcounts on it.
- During an audit you trace the change history through people, not the system.
- Whoever built the original solution left the company long ago and there's no documentation.
How we replace a system while it's running
We never do a big bang. The old system keeps running until the new one takes over its work, piece by piece.
We map and document what's actually there
Code, data, integrations, licenses and the processes and customer journey around them. For many companies, it's the first time they've seen how work and customers actually flow through it.
We cut it into pieces that can be replaced
We start with what hurts most and carries the least risk. Not what's technically the most interesting.
We run both side by side
The new part takes over operations, the old one stays ready. If something breaks, you roll back an hour, not a month.
We turn off the old system last
Only once the last piece of work runs elsewhere and the data checks out. Until then you always have somewhere to fall back to.
What happens to the data and history
The question we get first. In a regulated industry it matters more than any feature.
Nothing gets deleted
We migrate history, not just the current state. Whatever was traceable before the switch stays traceable after it.
You verify the migration yourself
Before operations cut over, a control comparison of old and new data runs. You see the differences, not just us.
Audit trail from day one
Who changed what, and when. It doesn't get implemented after the fact, because after the fact it's not possible anymore.
Your data is yours, and readable
A documented schema and an export. So next time you don't have to solve the same problem again, with us or without us.
Broker Consulting · Prosperity FS
For Broker Consulting we built the Rex system, which replaced the established solution for a large real-estate division, while running, in a very sensitive industry. For Prosperity FS we prepared a feasibility study for moving from a cloud solution to its own platform and designed transformation scripts so systems could be switched over while operational, with no data or history lost.
More in the case studiesHow long it takes
We'll give you a price only after the analysis, prior to that it's just an indicative estimate. Timeline-wise, a project looks like this:
When we'll tell you it doesn't make sense
When there's an off-the-shelf solution on the market that covers ninety percent of what you need, we'll tell you and won't build you a custom one. We'll likewise tell you when the problem is in the processes, not the system itself, when new software won't fix that, it'll just cost more time and effort. Mapping and straightening out processes is something we do too, though. It's different work from writing code, and we offer it as a standalone service.
Tell us what's holding you back.
The first consultation takes half an hour - we recommend a video call, or a phone call. We'll talk through what you need and whether we see ourselves fit to work on it.
We usually reply to emails by next business day.