Application Modernization Services
Are legacy systems holding you back?
Tech moves fast - so should you
Technology has a limited shelf life. CPU processing power doubles every four years, and data volumes increased by 32X in the last decade. Yet many businesses still rely on software built in the pre-cloud, pre-AI era, facing high costs and limited scalability.
KVlinx’s helps businesses achieve peak performance with both immediate and long-term application modernization services – shaped by strategy, informed by data and executed with NASA-level excellence. No jokes — we’ve built a smart agro-system for cultivating plants in space that is used by NASA.)
Our 2-speed approach for quick wins & long-term transformation value
Rapid enhancements
Simplify and innovate key components of
existing systems to gain immediate value,
retain business continuity and demonstrate ROI to fund future initiatives.
Long-term platform transformation
Implement a phased strategy for progressive portfolio modernization with consulting, engineering and PMO support from our team.
KVlinx Modernization play
Accelerate:
Redefine your business growth trajectory with innovations beyond the cloud. Adopt frontier technologies to unlock extra agility, efficiencies and revenue streams.
Reinvent:
Lift off and land in the cloud with our outcome-driven migration approach that combines solution design, project management, quality assurance and deployment.
Ignite:
Ensure a controlled start to your IT modernization with our proven processes. Define the value of your planned digital transformation and justify your investment.
Application landscape rationalization
Our application landscape rationalization service helps you take control. Get clarity on what stays, what goes and which assets should be transformed — whether through migration, refactoring or replacement. Prepare to transform your technology ecosystem incrementally, with complete continuity and data-backed insights on risk mitigation, costs and business impact.
Technical debt assessment
As part of our application modernization consulting, we help you identify problematic code as well as architecture and infrastructure artifacts across your technology portfolio. Understand the impact and risk of modernization (along with the costs of carrying technical debt), receive a prioritized roadmap for repaying technical debt and get hands-on assistance in doing so from our software engineering unit.
Cloud readiness & TCO assessmen
Our cloud consultants assess your technical readiness for cloud adoption. They help you identify capability gaps, prioritize application migration candidates and establish new processes (DevOps, FinOps, CloudOps) for maximizing cloud value. Increase your software engineering productivity, accelerate your time to market and maintain high system uptime without security tradeoffs.
Product strategy development
Legacy application modernization is more than fixing code or infrastructure lag. It’s an opportunity to reimagine your product portfolio. Evolve legacy products with strategic consultancy from our Product Design office. Explore new customer-centric growth opportunities, understand priority actions and pursue modernization of legacy apps in alignment with your business success metrics.
Experience design
Reimagine interaction with your legacy applications using human-centered design principles. By blending creativity with user insights and pragmatic tech decisions, we modernize legacy applications to deliver more convenient, delightful and memorable experiences. Re-engage your customer base with a product that captures attention, evokes joy and gets the job done faster.
Solution discovery
Together, we’ll de-risk your strategy for modernization of legacy applications. Avoid false starts with deep market research and user requirements validation, and get strategic technology advisory on optimal system components for feasible solution implementation. We use a combination of market intelligence and technology acumen to help you gain clarity in product strategy and solution implementation.
Results we’ve achieved for our client
70+ new datasets
Made available from a mainframe-based system for better inventory management and POS analytics
30% cost reduction
After migrating 60+ BSS apps to a multi-cloud environment, halving the time to market for new telecom products
50% lower maintenance costs
After migrating to a microservices architecture for a home improvement retailer
Transcending legacy limits: Stories from our clients
As eCommerce was taking off, a UK building supplies retailer was held back by a decades-old IBM Universe Mainframe core. To say that it was dead weight would be a major understatement. KVlinx helped the retailer set a new trajectory for growth with a cloud-native platform, uniting front- and back-office operations.
- More than 300 workloads migrated to the cloud environment to power better data exchange, ensure application scalability and support new digital channels
- 99.999% cloud system availability achieved on top of 91% availability of the UniVerse mainframe, which has been kept for low-priority components
- 30% reduction in infrastructure costs and 50% lower maintenance costs after migrating to a microservices architecture
- Zero-downtime deployments for new products, system updates and bug fixes, resulting in a better customer experience
- Innovative products launched for mobile commerce, digital order management and returns processing, generating 40% revenue growth
For a German telco, legacy app migration to the cloud was a critical step for staying competitive and profitable. To accelerate new product development and deployment cycles, improve the customer experience and gain extra operating efficiencies, the company partnered with Kvlinx for BSS layer transformation.
- More than 60 billing systems were re-architected as microservices and migrated to a multi-cloud environment.
- 80% of mission-critical applications run in the cloud, allowing for instant scalability and better load balancing.
- Infrastructure costs were reduced by 30% within three years thanks to optimized system design and new billing dynamics.
- Enhanced compliance: all business processes, data models and APIs were standardized according to TM Forum ODA principles.
FAQs about our application modernization services
What are the risks of legacy applications?
Legacy applications pose security, operational and growth risks. They may lead to compliance, regulatory, data loss and performance issues, causing operational disruptions. Because of limited scalability, legacy technologies also reduce your capacity to innovate and expand your market presence.
How do you determine which applications should be modernized?
To determine the optimal approach to application modernization, our consultants perform technical debt and cloud readiness assessments. In practice, this means that we map your entire technology portfolio to understand an app’s logic, dependencies and constraints. Then we suggest the most economically viable and risk-free approach to modernization.
What’s your approach to handling technical debt?
We conduct a holistic assessment to map technical debt on three levels:
1) code;
2) production and architecture; and
3) impact on product scalability, performance, TCO and user experience. Then we look into all instances to formalize a tech debt repayment plan, which combines quick wins with incremental wide-scale modernization.
How do you address the security challenges of legacy application modernization?
How do you address the security challenges of legacy application modernization?
As part of our assessments, we identify the main security vulnerabilities in individual applications and your IT estate to provide you with a clear overview of prioritized risks. Afterwards, we integrate modern authentication, data encryption, compliance and cybersecurity measures as we modernize your applications.
