Expert Application Modernization Services

• We thoroughly investigate your current application portfolio to identify modernization opportunities.
• Our analysis provides a strategic roadmap and detailed guidance on the best path forward, ensuring you maximize value from existing technology investments.

• Move your essential business applications to the cloud securely and efficiently.
• Cloudester specializes in everything from application re-hosting (lift-and-shift) to refactoring for a modern, cloud-native implementation, delivering speed and scale.

• We enhance your application’s fundamental architecture to make it scalable, secure, and easier to maintain.
• Our expert team utilizes modern modular design principles, including microservices and containers, which prepare your software for the future of business.

• With a deep understanding of legacy applications, we revise and streamline code structure and overall design.
• Application re-engineering helps extend your application’s lifespan and delivers key benefits like:
• Reduced overall maintenance costs.
• Improved functionality and maintainability.
• Better performance and response times.

• Our experts efficiently update and customize legacy application code (e.g., older Java, .NET versions) to align with current technology standards.
• This speeds up the modernization process, minimizes risk, and reduces manual effort.

• Implement robust application containerization using industry standards like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Containerization dramatically improves deployment speed, consistency across environments, and resource utilization.

• We revamp your approach to data management and storage, ensuring data integrity, security, and accessibility.
• This is crucial for unlocking timely insights through on-demand reporting and improved data analytics capabilities.

• Beyond pure technology, our services help organizations integrate modern digital processes, leveraging sophisticated tools to gain a competitive edge.
• This ensures your newly modernized application directly supports your broader business goals.

• Our designers and engineers ensure your modernized application offers seamless, reliable experiences across all platforms and devices, including web, mobile, and desktop.
• We identify and resolve any usability and accessibility issues.

• We act as your compliance consultants, helping you adhere to industry regulations and security standards.
• We thoroughly assess your current software, identify gaps, and provide solutions to ensure full legal and operational compliance.

• Security is foundational to all our software modernization projects.
• We integrate the highest security standards throughout the development lifecycle, focusing on encryption, access controls, and data protection to secure sensitive business information.

• We help you ensure your software is usable by everyone, including users with disabilities.
• We remediate issues related to vision, hearing, and cognitive barriers, ensuring your modernized application meets modern accessibility standards.

• Outdated 15+ Year-Old Core Software: Stagnant technology framework limiting feature development and future integration.
• Disconnected Systems and Error-Prone Data: Siloed applications causing slow data sharing and introducing manual errors.
• High Maintenance Costs and Obsolete Technology: Excessive spending on supporting complex, end-of-life hardware and software.
• Heavy Reliance on Internal IT with Limited Expertise: Key institutional knowledge trapped in a small team managing outdated codebases.
• Elevated Risk of Fraud and Non-Compliance: Lack of automated checks in an aging system structure.
• Opaque and Inconsistent Business Processes: Manual tracking and decentralized data making reporting and decision-making difficult.
• Low Employee Productivity from Fragmented Workflows: Manual and fragmented tasks leading to inefficient staff performance.
• Lack of Centralized View of Operations: Inability to gain a complete, end-to-end perspective on the core business lifecycle.

• Modern, Scalable Cloud Platform: Rebuilt using cutting-edge technologies (e.g., microservices, latest cloud frameworks) providing a flexible, future-proof foundation.
• Seamless Enterprise Integration: Unified architecture with integration tools (APIs, BI systems) ensuring single-source-of-truth data integrity and flow.
• Reduced Operational Expenditure: Modern, scalable cloud architecture requiring minimal ongoing maintenance and support staff.
• Access to Dedicated Cross-Functional Experts: Cloudester provides a fully dedicated team covering development, DevOps, and security, mitigating internal resource strain.
• Automated Compliance and Risk Enforcement: Implementation of automated processes for fraud detection and industry-specific compliance standards.
• Real-Time Data Visibility and Analytics: Centralized dashboards and instant data flow into enterprise warehouses for advanced, reliable business intelligence.
• Optimized Workflow Automation: Robust automation of repetitive tasks (e.g., data entry, reporting, task assignments) dramatically boosting efficiency and productivity.
• Full End-to-End Traceability: Centralized dashboards and logging providing full visibility across all application processes and operations.

• Modernization delivers an upgraded UX/UI design, significantly improving application performance, responsiveness, and feature sets.
• This results in higher customer satisfaction and better engagement with your digital products.

• We implement cutting-edge security and coding best practices, including expert security testing and proactive regulatory compliance checks.
• Protect your critical data and ensure continuous adherence to industry standards with modern, secure architecture.

• By migrating away from outdated legacy infrastructure and optimizing cloud resource use, you immediately reduce the strain on your IT support team.
• This focused software modernization effort converts high operational costs into strategic investment savings.

• Achieve superior business outcomes through workflow automation, seamless integration of advanced technologies, and streamlined processes.
• Modern applications empower your employees to work smarter and faster.

• Modern, optimized software design, coupled with scalable cloud resources, ensures your application can handle rapid growth in users and data without interruption.
• Your system is always ready for what’s next.

• Our modernization process provides clean, well-documented code and flexible, modular architectures (like microservices).
• This foundation makes future feature development, integrations, and continuous evolution faster, easier, and less costly.

• Benefit from the flexible, pay-as-you-go cloud pricing model.
• You only pay for the resources you consume, drastically reducing capital expenditure on on-premises IT infrastructure.

• Achieve rapid, on-demand scalability of your resources without any upfront investment.
• The cloud lets you instantly adapt to peak loads and business growth seamlessly.

• Our proven cloud migration processes and robust architectures ensure maximum application uptime, minimizing the risk of failure and ensuring business continuity.

• Cloud-native tools and streamlined DevOps practices significantly increase the speed of your software engineering and application deployment cycles, bringing new features to market faster.

Immediate cost savings are realized by eliminating physical data center expenses and moving to optimized cloud hosting.

Significant operational efficiency gains and lower management costs are achieved by updating components to better suit the cloud environment.

The highest long-term ROI is unlocked by transforming the application into a fully cloud-native structure, leading to dramatically faster deployment cycles, improved developer productivity, and continuous innovation.

We specialize in modernizing critical enterprise applications, including:

• Core Business Tools: ERP, CRM, HCM (Human Capital Management), SCM (Supply Chain Management), and PPM (Project Portfolio Management).
• Data & Intelligence: Business Intelligence (BI) platforms and data warehouses.
• SaaS Modernization: Transforming and optimizing your existing Software as a Service infrastructure.

Our team provides software modernization for systems leveraging next-generation technologies:

• IoT (Internet of Things) applications.
• Big Data platforms.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) systems.

We help you update the user-facing and underlying architectures of traditional applications.

• Web, Mobile, and Desktop applications.
• Business Process Automation (BPA) systems.

We provide modernization, migration, and integration services for leading platforms such as Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365, SharePoint, ServiceNow, and e-commerce systems like Magento.

We modernize applications regardless of where they reside, including: Cloud-based, On-premise, and Hybrid server environments.

Ensuring seamless functionality across all endpoints: Computers, laptops, mobile devices, and specialized wearables.

• We modernize the foundations your software runs on, migrating from outdated physical servers to efficient, scalable cloud-native infrastructure.
• This includes containers, serverless computing, and managed cloud services, drastically improving resilience and lowering operational costs.

• We overhaul your application’s architecture, moving away from monolithic designs to modern frameworks like microservices or service-oriented architecture (SOA).
• This includes updating and optimizing legacy programming languages and libraries (software modernization) to a current, maintainable tech stack.

• We ensure your modernized application works perfectly within your existing ecosystem.
• We design and implement robust APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and integration layers, allowing for smooth, secure, and real-time data flow with third-party tools, partner systems, and other enterprise applications.

• The modernization process culminates in an intuitive, engaging user experience.
• We redesign the Application UI/UX to meet modern standards, enhance accessibility, and improve overall performance, leading to higher adoption rates and better end-user productivity.

This is the fastest and most direct migration path. We move your application from its on-premises environment or existing legacy cloud infrastructure straight to a new, optimized cloud platform (like AWS or Azure). Re-hosting quickly enables DevOps capabilities and widespread access. While simple, this option provides foundational cloud benefits, setting the stage for more advanced software modernization later.

With Re-platforming, we go beyond a simple move. We introduce small, targeted modifications and upgrades to the application code and underlying components during the migration process. This strategy allows your application to leverage more advanced cloud capabilities such as improved performance, enhanced scaling, and better fault tolerance without a full, costly rebuild.

This is the most transformative approach to application modernization. We completely reshape the application architecture often by transforming it into web services or microservices. This process, known as refactoring, allows your application to handle dynamic load, supports partial updates, facilitates the use of a flexible technology mix, and provides maximum resilience and scalability in the modern cloud environment.

• We design the ideal team, comprising highly skilled architects, developers, and QA specialists, perfectly tailored to your project’s needs.
• We define a clear engagement model (dedicated team, full-outsourcing, or hybrid) that maximizes efficiency and expertise for your software modernization.

• Our structured 6-step scoping process defines every aspect of the project.
• This includes a detailed breakdown of features, user journey mapping, and a visual representation of the final product to ensure alignment before development begins.

• We use data-driven, essential forecasting models and proven pricing principles to accurately estimate costs, timelines, and resource needs.
• This ensures budget optimization and transparency throughout the entire application modernization process.

• We leverage core agile principles (Scrum/Kanban) and define a clear RACI matrix, collaboration flows, and meeting frequency.
• This ensures transparent, active partnership and seamless integration with your internal teams.

• We rigorously identify, assess, and manage potential software development risks at every phase of the project.
• Our proactive measures prevent project setbacks, secure against unforeseen challenges, and ensure a smooth application modernization services delivery.

• We employ key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure top-notch software quality and reliability.
• Our development process adheres to stringent internal controls and industry-recognized quality management systems.

• Security is built into our process, not bolted on.
• We apply meticulous security management practices to protect your data, intellectual property, and IT environments throughout the software modernization lifecycle.

• We define and track real-world, measurable objectives such as performance, reduced time-to-market, and increased user satisfaction to ensure the project delivers the expected business value.

• Cloudester provides detailed, regular project reports (daily, weekly, monthly) tailored to the audience (stakeholder or technical lead).
• This allows you to track progress, budget, and scope changes with full visibility.

• We deliver a complete range of documentation, from development notes and technical guides to final architecture diagrams.
• This ensures your team can easily maintain and evolve the modernized application immediately post-launch.

• We organize all project knowledge, tools, and practices to ensure smooth information sharing.
• This robust knowledge management process guarantees your internal team is fully empowered to own and manage the new application.

• We define a transparent, efficient process for handling all change requests from initial submission to final implementation or rejection, ensuring agility while keeping the project on track.

• We use the power of low-code development platforms for fast, cost-effective development of supplementary applications or to quickly replace non-critical components of your core system.
• This accelerates time-to-market and keeps specialized, complex coding focused on core business logic.

• Our architects design and implement hybrid cloud solutions that strategically blend private and public cloud environments.
• This approach allows you to meet strict regulatory or security requirements for specific data while keeping the overall infrastructure flexible and cost-effective.

• We can enable real-time application responsiveness, especially for systems connected to IoT devices, by integrating edge computing.
• This moves data processing closer to the source of data, drastically reducing latency and improving the performance of critical, time-sensitive applications.

• We specialize in transforming legacy customer-facing web applications into modern Progressive Web Applications (PWAs).
• This allows you to deliver a superior, app-like user experience that works across all devices and screen sizes without the higher investment and maintenance complexity of native mobile apps.

• Focus: Minor technical debt remediation, UI/UX updates, simple code conversions, or foundational application re-hosting/cloud migration.
• Duration: Typically 2 to 3+ months.

• Focus: Re-platforming or refactoring applications of medium size and complexity, including integrating new technologies or optimizing architecture.
• Duration: Typically 6 to 12+ months.

• Focus: Full re-engineering and deep refactoring of large, mission-critical, enterprise-wide legacy systems.
• Duration: Typically 1 to 2+ years.

The depth of interconnectedness with other systems and the overall technical intricacy of the application.

The quantity of data that needs to be cleansed, transformed, and securely transferred to the new platform.

The age and stability of the application, and the amount of infrastructure, code, and configuration changes required for cloud migration.

The degree of modernization automation utilized (e.g., automated code conversion tools) and the associated software licenses needed.

The rigorous level of testing (functional, non-functional, security) required to ensure the reliability of the modernized application.

We implement robust architecture and pipelines to manage and process massive datasets, unlocking valuable insights that inform strategic business decisions.

Integrate AI capabilities like sophisticated decision-making engines and automated reasoning into your core applications to streamline complex processes and improve customer interactions.

Leverage advanced analytics and machine learning models to predict trends, personalize experiences, and optimize operational efficiency within your modernized systems.

Modernize your application to securely connect, manage, and analyze data from vast networks of IoT devices, creating new operational efficiencies and user experiences.

Integrate machine learning-based visual recognition capabilities for tasks like quality control, security monitoring, or automated inspection within your software modernization project.

Develop AR features to overlay digital information onto the real world, enhancing training, field service, and user engagement for your enterprise apps.

Utilize VR to create fully immersive environments for complex simulations, remote collaboration, or specialized training applications, bringing modern dimensions to your services.

Features

Primary Goal:

• To revamp an existing application to fundamentally improve its vital technical characteristics (e.g., performance, security, scalability, usability, extensibility) and to optimize maintenance costs.

Scope of Work:

A focused effort on the core technical assets, including:
• Software modernization (code refactoring, re-architecting).
• Migrating the app to a new, modern technology stack.
• Application re-platforming.
• App migration to the cloud.

Typical Duration

• A shorter-term, technology-specific project, typically ranging from a few months for medium complexity to 1-2 years for large-scale enterprise modernization.

Investment:

• Varies based on technical complexity (e.g., size of code base, data volume). Investment is targeted toward technical debt reduction and immediate performance gains.

Features

Primary Goal:

• To improve the speed, resilience, and business performance of the entire enterprise by adopting new digital capabilities across processes, culture, and customer engagement.

Scope of Work:

A broad, enterprise-wide change initiative encompassing:
• Modernization of legacy applications (as a part of the whole)
• New software development and implementation
• Cloud enablement across the organization
• Data-driven process and environment modeling
• Transformation of corporate culture and operating models

Typical Duration

• A long-term, continuous strategic initiative, commonly extending to 2+ years and ongoing as the business adapts to market changes.

Investment:

• Varies based on company size and scope. Investment is targeted toward new revenue streams, operational efficiency across departments, and cultural change enablement.