Revamping a legacy application to improve scalability & remove redundancy

Looking to improve the scalability of an application to meet changing demands of your customers? Revamp is the answer.

Worrying about software compatibility issues that refrain your existing system to adapt to evolving IT infrastructure? Revamp is required.

Want to remove redundancy and technical limitations to improve overall performance of the software? Again, the answer is revamp

As reliable and easy-to-use as your legacy systems may appear, sooner or later it’s crucial to upgrade them or risk getting left behind the competition.

Undeniably, revamping is challenging – especially when you already have a live application in the market for years with a strong user base and paying customers. Nevertheless, the transition from legacy to modern application can be a resource-intensive task for any company as it may cause hitches or pauses in the continuity of business operations. Not to mention the familiarity and convenience which are the top reasons businesses retain a legacy system.

However, there comes a point when moving away from the outdated tech and progressing towards redevelopment becomes critical to meet the evolving customers’ demands, improvise app’s functionality, and enhance overall efficiency.?

Here are some of the scenarios when revamping a legacy app is worth it:

• When the app maintenance becomes too expensive.
• ?When some features are redundant or can’t be implemented with the current tech stack.
• ?When the app is no more scalable and doesn’t sync with the users’ requirements.
• ?When the tech being used in the existing legacy system is outdated.

But, revamping a legacy software requires two critical thinking modes.?

One, the revamp itself.?

Second, to ensure that the revamp process doesn’t hamper the system’s current usability and customers can continue using the application in parallel.

The process becomes even harder when you try to achieve both simultaneously, given the complexity of data, and extensivity of an application.

Recently, we came across a similar scenario where the client wants to get the legacy app modernized while not stopping the existing application and also allowing the users to start using the new application simultaneously and seamlessly.

How is Ditstek Innovations Pvt. Ltd. (DITS) helping the client to achieve this?

Initially built in Asp.Net, the application caters to the auto claim market needs and provides financial services to address the cash flow challenges being faced by motor body repairers. As a financial service provider, the application is quite extensive and already live in the market for over 15 years but less scalable. Further, there are several redundant features that impacts the overall performance of the system.

Here is how we are carrying out the legacy app revamp without compromising on the existing utility of the application:

• ?We chose React.JS as the new tech for application revamp. The application built in React.JS communicates with the same database used in Asp via .Net web API.
• ?Module-wise redevelopment of the application in React.
• Once the redevelopment is done, IFrames are used to embed the new module or screen in the old application. This offers user-friendliness as users can open the new application with the same old URL easily.
• ?The old Asp.Net code and the new React.JS database communicates via Bridging functionality which makes data sinking breeze.?

Are you also looking to revamp a legacy application or need assistance on the same? Feel free to contact us at :[email protected]