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Rethinking Legacy Systems for a Modern Era
Legacy systems often hold businesses back with rising costs, talent gaps, and innovation barriers. At Improving, we modernize these systems through tailored strategies—refactoring, cloud replatforming, or full rebuilds—designed to align with your goals. Our process ensures minimal disruption and delivers tangible results, from enhanced performance to reduced operational costs.
Why Legacy Systems Hold You Back
Many enterprises still rely on legacy systems that are fragile, monolithic, and costly to maintain. These systems create bottlenecks that hinder scalability, slow down innovation, and increase exposure to security risks. Without modernization, businesses struggle to integrate with cloud services, adopt AI, or respond to shifting customer expectations.
High Cost of Maintenance and Operations
Inflexible Monolithic Architectures
Limited Scalability and Poor Performance
Security Vulnerabilities and Compliance Gaps
Difficulty Integrating with Modern Platforms
Modernization Services For Modern Enterprises
We offer a focused set of services to help enterprises modernize legacy applications while reducing risk and accelerating value. From architecture assessments to full cloud replatforming, our approach balances technical execution with strategic alignment. Every engagement is built to ensure scalability, maintainability, and long-term performance.
Our Proven Modernization Framework
Modernizing legacy systems requires more than just code migration. It demands a clear roadmap, stakeholder alignment, and technical precision. At Improving, we apply a phased, collaborative approach that minimizes disruption and maximizes long-term value. From assessment to post-deployment optimization, we guide clients every step of the way.
1. Discovery
We begin by evaluating your legacy environment, system dependencies, and business goals. This phase includes stakeholder interviews, architecture reviews, and readiness assessments to ensure we fully understand the risks and opportunities ahead.
2. Design
Based on our findings, we craft a strategic roadmap tailored to your organization. This includes technology recommendations (e.g., cloud platform, architecture patterns), prioritization of systems, and a phased execution plan aligned to business impact.
3. Develop
Our engineering teams modernize applications using approaches like replatforming, refactoring, or rebuilding. We implement CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native architectures, and scalable components while ensuring secure, low-risk transitions.
4. Demonstrate
We ensure modernized systems integrate seamlessly into your ecosystem through robust API strategies and automated testing. Functional, regression, and performance testing validate quality before deployment.
5. Deploy
Post-deployment, we monitor performance and user adoption while identifying opportunities for continuous improvement. Our team provides ongoing support, optimization, and training to ensure sustained success.
Real Impact from Legacy to Modern
Explore real-world examples of how we’ve helped enterprises modernize mission-critical systems, reduce technical debt, and achieve measurable performance gains. These case studies highlight our ability to navigate complexity and deliver scalable, future-ready architectures.
DekaFlow Modernization Project
Improving helped Berkshire Hathaway Energy modernize a legacy Java Swing app into a cloud-native, microservices-based system using React, Kafka, and Azure, boosting deployment speed, scalability, and resilience while eliminating Oracle dependencies.
React.js
Java
Apache Kafka
A Web Application to Modernize Processes
Boys Town National Research Hospital worked with Improving to replace a legacy C++ system with a modern web application for grants and research management. The new platform streamlined operations, enabled remote access, and established a sustainable DevOps foundation.
React.js
Spring Boot
Microsoft SQL Server
Modernizing Web Applications for Resilience and Scalability
Minnesota Public Radio partnered with Improving to modernize its digital infrastructure by migrating key public and internal applications to AWS. The new cloud environment, built on EKS, RDS, and Terraform, improved scalability, reduced costs, and streamlined disaster recovery.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Kubernetes
Terraform
Why Leading Enterprises Choose Improving
At Improving, we don’t just modernize code — we modernize outcomes. Our team brings deep experience in transforming complex legacy systems into agile, cloud-ready platforms that reduce technical debt and enable faster innovation. With a disciplined engineering approach and a strong focus on long-term maintainability, we help enterprises unlock the full value of modernization.
Proven success modernizing monolithic systems at scale
End-to-end expertise from architecture to deployment
Deep knowledge of cloud migration and refactoring
Emphasis on maintainability, not just transformation
Strong alignment with Microsoft’s modernization frameworks
Discover Improving's Code Explorer
Code Explorer is a proprietary AI-powered service accelerator designed by Improving to help organizations rapidly analyze complex codebases, document critical systems, and unlock modernization opportunities. Built on advanced large language models and knowledge graph techniques, it transforms legacy systems from technical debt into structured, actionable insight. So, whether you're planning a migration, addressing maintainability, or onboarding new teams, Code Explorer lays the foundation for continuous improvement.
Chain of Density Collection
AI-Powered Knowledge Graphs
ETL Catalog Generation
Actionable Insights
Cloud Migration Programs & Partnerships
Improving collaborates with leading cloud providers to streamline legacy modernization for enterprise clients. As a Tier-1 partner to Microsoft, AWS, and Google Cloud, we leverage each platform’s unique tools, funding programs, and migration frameworks to accelerate transformation with minimal risk. Our cloud-agnostic approach ensures you receive a tailored modernization path aligned to your business goals, infrastructure, and long-term vision.
Technologies That Power Modernization
We use proven technologies to refactor and replatform legacy systems into scalable, maintainable architectures. From cloud-native frameworks to containerization and CI/CD pipelines, our approach ensures performance, security, and longevity.
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS
AWS CloudFormation
Azure
Cloud Build
Docker
Google Cloud
Kubernetes
Terraform
Application Development
Angular
Go (Golang)
Java
.NET Core
Next.js
Node.js
Python
React.js
Spring Boot
DevOps & Automation
Ansible
ArgoCD
Azure DevOps
GitHub Actions
Grafana
Helm
Jenkins
Prometheus
AI & Modernization
Azure OpenAI
Code Explorer
Document AI
FastAPI
Google Vertex AI
LangChain / LangGraph
Pandas
Data & Integration
Elasticsearch
GraphQL
Kafka
MongoDB
PostgreSQL
Redis
REST & gRPC
Explore Related Application Services
Modernization doesn’t end with refactoring. It often requires a broader transformation of how applications are built, deployed, and connected. That’s why we align our services across cloud-native architecture, DevOps automation, and API integration. Together, these capabilities create a resilient, high-performing foundation for continuous innovation.
Insights on Modernization That Matter
Legacy transformation isn’t just technical — it’s strategic. Our blogs, case studies, and webinars unpack lessons learned from real-world projects, cloud migration frameworks, and common modernization pitfalls. Explore how leading teams approach modernization with clarity and confidence.
Let’s Talk Legacy Modernization
Ready to start your modernization journey? Our team is here to answer questions, scope solutions, and guide you toward the right next step.
Headquarters: 5445 Legacy Drive #100 Plano, TX 75024
Call: (214) 613-4444
Email: sales@improving.com
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