Legacy and digital can happily co-exist
Manufacturers have to innovate and drive transformation to compete in a highly competitive global market. We can help your organisation adopt digital enabling technologies within the constrains of your existing IT systems. When it comes to legacy versus digital transformation, it isn’t always a case of either or – heritage and digital can quite happily co-exist.
Legacy or Heritage systems have often benefitted from significant investment over their lifetime and can contain a vast amount of data. They are often complex, touching many different aspects of an organisation’s business and its processes and are, therefore, also extremely critical to the organisations that rely on them.
An often-overlooked alternative to a wholesale lift and shift replacement of an existing system, based on an older technology stack, is to consider the viability of upgrading these systems using new digital technologies. This is very much the approach we are taking to a number of our software systems we have developed for our clients.
This approach helps realise the inherent value these platforms deliver to a business whilst at the time upgrading them to benefit from new digital capabilities. In addition, it reduces the risks of migrating to new systems and new suppliers and reduces the impact on an organisation’s day to day operations.
We solve complex problems for clients by creating new bespoke solutions
We recently developed TraderTap, a cost-saving, easy-to-use solution which can be used by companies of all sizes that move goods in and out of Northern Ireland.
TraderTap was developed in response to Brexit to help negate some of the administrative burden of manually entering data from the UK Government’s TSS portal.
The platform helps traders and carriers move good between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Its features include automatic data entry via the TSS, error capturing to ensure easy resolution, searchable records as well as a secure and intuitive interface.
Meet some of our clients
Pioneering a global process for a household name
Delivering a large scale and complex agile project to help centralise product information and improve customer service for global service centres.
Read MoreReducing export and Brexit administration overheads for leading tool & workshop specialist
A digital solution to help reduce manual entry into the UK Government's Trader Support Service.
Read MoreImproving data supplied to Service & Repair Agents around the world
We helped Stanley Black & Decker streamline product information and improve customer service to their global service centres with a solution that interfaces with core manufacturing systems.
Read MoreModernising legacy ERP system and improving UX
We modernised Rearo’s ERP system to reduced costs and risk for the organisation, while improving efficiency and user experience.
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