Modernizing legacy applications ensures they remain compatible with future technology advancements, saving you from frequent updates or replacements. It extends your software’s lifespan and enables easy adoption of new technologies, keeping your business adaptable to changes and providing long-term cost savings with minimal disruption.
Application modernization services
Make sure your applications meet modern demands — transforming legacy systems into future-ready solutions.
What we offer
Software modernization is crucial for companies who want to stay ahead of the curve. Our application modernization experts breathe new life into your existing software, making it easier to maintain in the long run. We help you take advantage of new features, improve performance, and keep your data safe with the latest security updates. Our legacy application modernization services are tailored to ensure your migration goes smoothly and without interrupting your operations.
Application modernization services take many forms, from updating the system architecture, components, and codebase to refactoring and tweaking UI look & feel. As a legacy software modernization company, we have 13+ years of experience in application development and modernization across industries. We choose the best-fit approach based on your requirements and budget, saving valuable business logic that is costly to recreate.
Our application modernization services
Legacy software modernization
Our application modernization services encompass every facet of your legacy system, from updating codebases, frameworks, and libraries to enhancing visual design and adding new features. Leveraging the latest technologies and best practices, we elevate your app’s performance, security, and usability, ensuring it remains easy to maintain and scale for future growth.
Web migration
Our web migration services facilitate a seamless transition of your desktop applications to the web, minimizing business disruptions. This upgrade modernizes your tech stack while boosting security and user experience. Our team ensures a smooth migration, minimizing downtime and maintaining operational efficiency throughout the process.
Cloud migration
We streamline cloud migration, guiding you through every step—from assessing your current setup to planning, executing, and optimizing the cloud infrastructure. Whether you’re migrating workloads for the first time or switching cloud providers, our team ensures a smooth transition, enhancing performance and achieving cost savings.
Software re-engineering
Our software re-engineering services transform your application by restructuring code and databases to meet modern standards. We carefully analyze existing code and redesign it to align with your business goals while maintaining high-quality performance, turning your legacy system into a modern solution with familiar business logic.
UX / UI redesign
Our UX/UI designers specialize in desktop application revamps, transforming your app’s interface to be both visually appealing and user-friendly. Whether it’s a complete overhaul or minor tweaks, we prioritize user satisfaction with in-depth research, wireframes, high-quality visuals, and best styling practices to elevate the user experience.
- Conduct user research to identify areas for improvement
- Create wireframes and prototypes
- Design high-quality visuals
- Test and iterate based on feedback
- Implement best styling practices for UI
- Improve user experience and app navigation
- Develop ready-to-use design guidelines for further development
API integrations
Our API integration services enhance your legacy software by connecting it to various third-party systems. This approach extends functionality without requiring custom development, allowing you to begin your digital transformation and seamlessly adopt cloud technologies while streamlining processes and improving efficiency.
Software re-architecting
When your legacy system faces compatibility issues with new features, integrations, or cloud infrastructure, we offer re-architecting services. Transitioning from monolithic to microservices or modular architecture enhances performance and interoperability while reducing hosting and maintenance costs, enabling smoother upgrades and future scalability.
Software assessment and IT consulting
We conduct comprehensive assessments of your legacy systems to identify gaps in functionality and performance. Our experts evaluate each component to ensure compatibility and offer tailored modernization recommendations, ensuring your system aligns with current needs and future growth.
Application modernization trends we willingly use
We embrace cutting-edge modernization trends, including cloud-native technologies for flexibility, microservices for scalability, and containerization for fast, consistent deployments. Our expertise also extends to AI and machine learning, enhancing apps with intelligent features while adopting DevOps practices for continuous improvement.
We at Blackthorn Vision are among application modernization vendors that adopt the most forward-thinking trends. Among them are:
Cloud-native applications: Leveraging cloud infrastructure for scalability and resilience.
Microservices architecture: Breaking down apps into smaller, manageable services for agility.
Containerization with docker and kubernetes: Enhancing deployment speed and consistency across environments.
For cloud application migrations
We provide cloud app modernization services of the highest quality to maximize the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of your business. Our seasoned team assures you that you will benefit from reduced costs, rapid scalability, high application uptime, reliability, and minimized risk. If you are considering application modernization, cloud will enhance your performance while saving costs.
Maximized efficiency and cost-effectiveness: Transitioning to the cloud offers reduced costs with flexible pay-as-you-go pricing models.
Rapid scalability: Experience rapid scalability to meet growing business needs without hefty upfront investments.
High application uptime: Ensure reliability and minimize risk with high application uptime, ensuring uninterrupted operations.
Faster application updates: Our cloud services facilitate faster application updates, accelerating the software development and deployment cycle by approximately 33%.
Benefits of application modernization services
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Future-proofing
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Stronger security
Legacy applications often lack modern security features, exposing your business to potential threats. Our modernization services integrate advanced security measures, such as encryption and real-time threat detection, ensuring your applications stay secure and compliant. Regular updates further reduce vulnerabilities and safeguard against data breaches.
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Minimized costs
Legacy systems often incur high maintenance costs. Modernizing applications reduces the need for constant repairs, optimizing resource usage and lowering operational expenses. Efficient, modern software reduces downtime and improves processes, allowing you to redirect cost savings toward strategic growth initiatives.
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Improved performance
Modern software, built on the latest tech stacks, enhances performance, leading to increased productivity and a better user experience. With faster processing speeds and optimized workflows, your applications can scale, handle complex tasks, and improve decision-making and responsiveness to market demands.
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Greater flexibility
Legacy application modernization services lead to greater flexibility, allowing for easy integration with new technologies. Cloud-based solutions enable scalability, while modern architectures like microservices facilitate feature updates and changes. This agility allows you to meet evolving business needs without costly overhauls.
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Competitive edge
Staying ahead of the competition requires constant innovation. Our app modernization services give you a competitive advantage by improving efficiency, security, and agility. This enables faster service delivery, attracting clients and positioning your business as a leader in innovation.
Technologies
Application modernization services can help you
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Legacy system integration
Old infrastructure often creates data silos, negatively impacts workflows, and adds to manual tasks. These systems fail to integrate with current technologies, adding to complexity and increasing costs. As a result, businesses can’t link with cloud tools or external platforms in a timely manner. We refactor and connect your systems using modern APIs and integration layers, ensuring smooth data flow across applications, cloud services, and third-party tools.
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Performance and scalability
Older applications may respond slowly, crash during busy periods, or struggle to meet new demands. These issues disrupt operations and negatively impact user reliability. Therefore, many organizations struggle to maintain consistent service levels or add new users. Our team upgrades your infrastructure with scalable cloud-native components and optimized back-end logic to support peak traffic and emerging business needs.
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User experience
It’s not unusual for outdated software to look and feel clumsy. Navigating it can be challenging, especially on mobile devices and tablets. Poor layout, slow responses, and a lack of modern design standards make training and overall use hard for teams and customers alike. We redesign legacy applications with responsive, intuitive interfaces tailored to modern usability standards, improving your end-user satisfaction and encouraging them to remain loyal.
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Operational costs
Running older systems can be expensive. Teams spend hours maintaining outdated hardware, applying patches, and dealing with workarounds. Licensing for old software and the demand for specialists who understand and can work with legacy code push costs up even higher. We modernize your tech stack with cost-efficient architectures, open-source tools, and cloud platforms that lower maintenance and free up internal resources.
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Agility and flexibility
The rigid system is a burden that prevents your business from moving quickly. Launching new features or adapting them to market shifts takes prohibitively long. Legacy frameworks often hinder the use of modern tools, necessitating complex and time-consuming updates that slow product development. We replace monolithic structures with modular architectures and microservices, enabling faster updates, easier scaling, and a shorter time-to-market.
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Security and compliance
Many old-fashioned platforms lack current security features. This increases the risk of data leaks and makes it harder to meet legal standards like GDPR or HIPAA. Weak controls and missing audit trails can expose sensitive information and create compliance gaps, which can be fatal. We embed up-to-date security protocols and compliance tools into your modernized environment to protect sensitive data and meet current legal requirements.
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Our application modernization process
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Define goals
Before starting any project, we define what you hope to achieve. We analyze your business problems and your performance and scalability requirements. Answering these questions helps us set realistic expectations for the project.
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Assess your legacy application
Next, we closely examine your existing application complexity and tech stack. This assessment gives you a better understanding of what needs to be done during the modernization process.
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Select modernization approach
Implementation is where actual coding takes place according to product specifications. Our engineers choose suitable programming languages and frameworks and decide whether your desktop app needs modularity or a plugin system. Based on the chosen tech stack, our team picks software development strategy and methodology and creates a detailed roadmap for every implementation stage.
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Begin the modernization process
The application modernization process involves implementing your chosen approach, which ranges from rewriting code to migrating data. Depending on the size and complexity of your legacy app, the process starts with the discovery phase or moves straight to modernization.
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Test and deploy new application
After completing the modernization process, we thoroughly test your new application before an official launch. This ensures everything works as intended, and users won’t encounter glitches once it’s live.
Certifications & awards
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TOP managed service provider
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TOP IT services company
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TOP app modernization service
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TOP 10% in Desktop Software & Embedded Solutions Development
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TOP 10% in Kotlin Development
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TOP 10% in Oracle SQL Development
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TOP 10% in Golang Development
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TOP 10% in AR/VR Applications Development
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TOP 10% in Oracle Development
What makes us a great choice for application modernization services
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Optimized app costs
At Blackthorn Vision, we provide app modernization services to maximize your cloud investment by optimizing resource allocation and minimizing waste. Our app modernization services ensure you only pay for what you use, reducing overhead while improving scalability and efficiency. This leads to significant long-term savings without compromising performance.
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Proven expertise
With our cloud application modernization services, you benefit from state-of-the-art infrastructure designed for high reliability and low latency. Our solutions provide seamless access to data and applications, ensuring uptime and fast response times, which are critical for maintaining smooth operations and providing excellent user experiences.
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Improved collaboration
App modernization services enhance collaboration by enabling secure, real-time access to data and applications from anywhere. Teams can work together seamlessly across different locations, improving productivity and fostering innovation. With centralized cloud-based tools, your employees can collaborate more efficiently, accelerating project timelines and decision-making.
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Superior security
Blackthorn Vision prioritizes data security throughout the software modernization services. We implement robust security measures, including encryption, multi-factor authentication, and real-time threat monitoring, to safeguard your information. Our app modernization services and solutions are designed to meet the highest security standards, protecting your business from evolving cyber threats.
Our customer success stories
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Energy, oil & GasSoftware solutions for monitoring Oil & Gas companyOur Front-End engineers work as part of the team of a US company – the leader in Digital Oilfield Solutions. The task was to create an upgraded version of a web-based solution that optimizes oil and gas equipment and answers critical questions about its condition and performance.“The quality of the work and engagement has been so good. They go beyond simply executing a task, story or test and are genuinely interested in understanding what the end user wants/needs.”SensiaDigital Architect, Web-Based IoT Platform
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Media & entertainmentMedia content management platformANC is a New York-based company that builds unforgettable digital experiences for brand marketing. Through immersive design and multimedia services, they transform commercial spaces – stadiums, entertainment venues, transit hubs, and trade centers.“They work to help develop our company instead of only being a third-party service provider. As a result, they've become a part of our company, which is very cool. Blackthorn Vision has shown that they're willing to go beyond the call of duty to do their job.”ANCChief technology officer
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BiotechML-powered laboratory diagnostics softwareSelux Diagnostics is a US biotech company transforming infectious disease diagnostics with rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing to combat antimicrobial resistance and enable personalized therapies.“Blackthorn resources are embedded in our team and serve as an extension to our workforce. And during the inevitable crunch periods Blackthorn was able to rapidly increase our access to a skilled resource pool on a temporary basis to meet important milestones.”Selux DiagnosticsSenior Program Manager
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Information technologyAI-powered automation platformOur client provides an AI-based collaborative platform that helps SRE teams respond to production incidents using a breakthrough approach. With this product, they can adopt SRE methodologies and reduce toil while getting a unified view of incidents, services, and knowledge base.The reliability and quality of the work done by the team are impressive.unSkriptChief Architect
Application modernization services: FAQ
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How do you modernize an application?
We strategically plan our software product modernization services, tailoring them to suit your needs and goals. Our first step is to assess the current technology stack and architecture of your application. We identify outdated components, legacy code, and potential security vulnerabilities.
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Why is application modernization important?
Application modernization is essential for you to maintain competitiveness and relevance in the fast-paced technological landscape. By software modernization, companies enhance their user experience, adapt to changing business needs, improve efficiency, and boost productivity. Modernized applications also offer better security, compliance, and scalability while reducing operational costs.
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What are the business risks of not modernizing a legacy app?
Neglecting to modernize a legacy app exposes your business to significant risks. Some of them include heightened security vulnerabilities, inefficient operations, poor user experience, limited scalability, higher maintenance costs, compliance issues, and integration challenges.
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Do I need to provide detailed functional specifications for a successful app modernization process?
It’s great if you have documentation at hand – we will move faster with your project. If not, our experts will handle app modernization even in the absence of extensive documentation. We proactively mine the essential business logic from your existing app and perform a thorough investigation of code dependencies and component integrations. Additionally, we foster seamless collaboration with your in-house IT team, third-party vendors, and other knowledgeable parties to ensure a streamlined modernization process.
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Is it possible to prevent operational downtime during application modernization?
Absolutely. We adopt a strategic approach to cloud application modernization services, ensuring uninterrupted uptime for your apps. We divide applications into several independent parts, introducing changes incrementally. This phased deployment minimizes disruptions so that your app remains available and fully functional throughout the modernization process.
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What is the difference between application modernization and digital transformation?
Application modernization service and digital transformation are two distinct processes within the IT strategy. Legacy software modernization is a piece of the digital transformation puzzle, addressing the technical evolution of applications, while digital transformation is the overarching process that encompasses complete business reinvention.
App modernization:
- Focuses on updating and improving existing software applications.
- Often involves moving to a cloud-based infrastructure.
- Incorporates current best practices in software development.
- Aims to extend the life and functionality of legacy systems.
Digital transformation:
- A broader strategy that involves rethinking old operating models.
- Is driven by changes in company culture and customer experiences.
- Embraces new technologies to transform business processes.
- Includes app modernization as one of many components.
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What are the timelines and costs of upgrading the application?
The development of application modernization solutions is a tailored process; the timelines and costs vary depending on the scope and complexity of the project. Our applications modernization checklist starts with evaluating the needs of your specific application, including desired functionalities, current infrastructure, and future scalability. Our goal is to offer cost-effective software modernization services that align with your business objectives, delivering optimized performance and ROI without compromising on quality.
Timelines for application modernization depend on:
- Scope of modernization: Including the number of features and processes to update.
- Application size: Larger applications with more code take longer.
- Technology integration: Time to integrate with new or existing systems.
- Testing requirements: Ensuring we modernize application to make it meet quality standards.
Costs for application modernization depend on:
- Resource allocation: The expertise and number of developers needed.
- Technology stack: Costs associated with specific technologies or platforms.
- Maintenance and training: Post-modernization support and user training.
- Infrastructure changes: Investments in new infrastructure or cloud services.
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How application modernization solves legacy software problems?
If you struggle to find qualified developers for the legacy stack
- We offer legacy app modernization services to empower your system with modern technology stacks and frameworks.
- Our experts use popular and well-supported technologies, making finding developers for the app’s support easier.
- We provide training and knowledge transfer to your in-house developers.
If your software is challenging to support
- Our development team performs code reviews and identifies areas that lack maintainability and readability.
- We suggest refactoring and codebase restructuring to reduce technical debt.
- Our engineers implement automated testing and continuous integration to catch issues early and ensure stability.
If your app doesn’t match your current workflow
- We collaborate with stakeholders to understand their current workflows and pain points.
- Our UX/UI experts redesign the app’s user flows to align with the latest industry standards and best practices.
- We customize the app to fit seamlessly into existing workflows, streamlining processes and enhancing user productivity.
If you have an outdated and hard-to-navigate interface
- Our designers conduct UX research and gather feedback from end-users to point out challenges in the current interface.
- We create a modern and intuitive UI design that enhances user satisfaction and ease of navigation.
- Developers implement responsive design to ensure your app is accessible and user-friendly across devices.
If you cannot access your app from the web
- We propose and implement a web-based version of the app to make it accessible from any device with an internet connection.
- Based on your requirements, we choose the best-fit cloud or on-premises solution for the app’s deployment.
- Our engineers develop APIs and backend services to support the web version and ensure seamless integration with the existing app.
If your system fails to keep up with business growth
- Conduct user research to identify areas for improvement
- Create wireframes and prototypes
- Design high-quality visuals
If you want to add new functional modules and integrations
- Our developers evaluate the existing architecture and design to ensure it supports new modules and features.
- We develop new modules as separate components and integrate them into the existing system using standardized APIs.
- Our team suggests and implements third-party integrations to enhance the app’s capabilities without reinventing the wheel.
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