Modernizing Legacy Systems

Oct 8

#Intrapreneurs: we’re kicking off a new series of posts 📫 with unique insights on a niche, yet critical topic: #modernizing #legacySystems. If not you, who will lead?! 🙌

First off — you are uniquely equipped to help your company! You know both the business + tech. Also, you are willing to lead, and your company may be starving for people who take initiative and own it. Thirdly, you always have a forward vision, an optimistic outlook and a drive to innovate. 🚘

So without you, your company may struggle to modernize or may pour some of your secret sauce down the drain. We need you to lead! 💪

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How did we get here?

You’ve seen the benefits of your system over many years, but it has started to show signs of aging (haven’t we all?!) ... and you are at a crossroads: do you leave it as is, migrate to another platform altogether ... or do you modernize your solution? And if so, how would you even go about such a big undertaking? Do you have to rewrite the entire thing from scratch?!

You love your custom solution, as does your team! It does everything that you need, all in one spot; and you remember those 1,000’s of hours that you and your team have put in to getting it dialed in. Perhaps you even see your personal “legacy” in your legacy solution — your stamp, your contribution.

In your current system — i.e. your “legacy” solution — every seemingly simple new feature request has started to get a bit complex and cumbersome to implement. One change even might cause an issue elsewhere in your system. Like working with an older car, each change starts to stack up, requiring specialized tools and extra care to make small updates.

And you also see the series of the latest releases in the tech marketplace, the spiffy case studies and clear promises within marketing campaigns. You’d love to add integrations, to create a brand new customer-facing web portal, to bolt on entire new modules. But you know that you can’t do this work in your current system. You can’t put lipstick on a pig.

You feel stuck. You know that your organization can achieve the same results as those case studies — but you’ve got to "eat your Wheaties” first ... you’ve got to modernize.