When system becomes old and outdated, the thought of migrating to a new architecture is not a pleasant one. Sometimes the decision is not of choice, where a system's platform is being deprecated, or maybe a license renewal is pending that will be significantly more expensive, or even break current functionalities and processes.

Maybe it's a software application that's customized to how your company operates and is about to lose support for updates and patches. Perhaps modern tech isn't even compatible with your system, like a site still running Adobe Flash (generic example).

A significant number of small businesses still operate, to this day, on systems and software built as far back as the 1980s and 1990s. As you're running your business, and as the need became more obvious that you needed to upgrade, but the endeavor was too much to deal with at that point in time and the can was kicked down the road, 10-plus years passed and now you're up against the wall, or worse, a ticking clock.

We've done government migrations, software and data application migrations, and even data centers that not only required the transport and procurement of new equipment, specialized components that required the device drivers to be rewritten for a new operating system. As daunting and scary as your upgrade looks, it's likely nothing we haven't seen.

A few real-world scenarios:

if your application runs on an old version of Windows Server no longer supported, and you're due for a hardware failure
you're getting robbed paying an annual license to keep your outdated system on life support
you have many years of customer and order data trapped in an old version of an Access database or customized application, and nobody wants to touch it and nothing can connect to it
your system is hosted on a platform that's shutting down, or is being purchased by an inferior provider
your staff is stuck in a world of spreadsheets because your system can't export into, or integrate with, anything modern
a critical software component is about to lose support or stop receiving security updates, with no upgrade path
you tried to move before, and if failed for whatever reason
your accounting or inventory software is so customized that the vendor’s “upgrade” would break the workflows you’ve built over the years
you need to add a new feature to your old e-commerce platform but will require expensive workarounds or plugins that continuously break
critical reports or historical data live in a system, and only one person in the company knows how to use it

Six stages of application and data migration: discovery and assessment; planning and mapping; data extraction and cleaning; application upgrades, porting and migration; validation and testing; cutover and support.

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