Many medium-sized organizations are trapped by legacy software lock-in, limiting their ability to innovate, scale, and remain competitive. Outdated systems lead to high maintenance costs, integration challenges and slow business processes. Traditional modernization approaches are costly, time-consuming and prone to failure.

Our 9-step approach leverages Thinkwise Upcycler, Thinkwise Digital Factory and Thinkwise Connectivity to automate and accelerate migration, reducing risk while ensuring alignment with your business strategy. With this structured process, you regain control over your software, eliminating vendor lock-in and unlocking digital transformation opportunities.

FOUNDATION

Before modernization begins, it’s crucial to understand what needs to change and why. Organizations often struggle with legacy systems because they lack a clear strategy or business case for transformation. Without a well-defined approach, projects risk failure due to misalignment with business goals, hidden dependencies and poor data management. Our first three steps focus on assessment, use-case alignment and data mapping, ensuring that every modernization effort is strategic, cost-effective and beneficial to the business. By defining the right scope and ensuring alignment with business priorities, we set the stage for a smooth and successful migration.

MIGRATION

Modernizing legacy software manually is complex, costly and slow. Traditional software redevelopment can take years, draining resources and creating new risks. Instead, our approach leverages automation to accelerate modernization while optimizing performance and flexibility. We first set the stage by reading your legacy logic with the Thinkwise Upcycler and map this to a functional model. Then we optimize the use-case(s) with Thinkwise Digital Factory by resolving legacy challenges. For the last step we use Thinkwise Connectivity ensuring that your modernized application works with existing IT systems and external platforms.

ROADMAP

Going live with a modernized application is just the beginning. Many digital transformation projects fail because they focus only on migration, without a long-term plan for continuous improvement. Ensuring success requires thorough validation, identifying new opportunities and planning for future extensions. The last 3 steps address all of them by validating a Go-Live success, identifying opportunities to optimize processes and increase efficiencies and creation of a roadmap that plans priority and feasibility of a continuous digital transformation journey.