Strangler-fig
Carve off bounded contexts and replace them behind a stable façade — no big-bang rewrites.
Legacy application modernization
Modernize legacy systems without halting the business.
Strangler-fig migrations, replatforming, and rewrites — sized to risk and tied to clear business outcomes.
- Strangler-fig, not big-bang
- Mainframe, .NET, Java, PHP, COBOL
- Business continuity guaranteed
- Outcome-tied roadmaps
Overview
Modernize at the speed the business can absorb.
We modernize legacy software in incremental waves — each one shipping a measurable improvement. Architecture decisions, risk management, and change management run alongside engineering, not after it.
Business benefits
Outcomes you can measure on the balance sheet.
Lower TCO
Cloud-native replacements cut licensing, infrastructure, and patching costs.
Reduced risk
Incremental delivery lets you pause, adjust, or roll back — no all-or-nothing migrations.
Faster delivery
Modern stacks and CI/CD turn quarterly releases into weekly ones.
Security uplift
Modern identity, encryption, and patching baselines replace aging controls.
Talent appeal
Engineers stay on stacks they can grow with.
AI readiness
Modernized systems become the substrate for copilots, automation, and analytics.
Key capabilities
Everything you need from a senior delivery partner.
Replatform
Lift-and-shift, containerize, or move to managed services with measurable cost savings.
Targeted rewrites
Greenfield rewrites where the codebase is beyond salvage — with a clear cutover plan.
Data migration
Zero-downtime data migrations with CDC, dual-write, and rollback strategies.
Risk management
Architecture decision records, threat models, and rollback plans on every wave.
Change management
Comms, training, and support so the business adopts the new system on day one.
Our process
A predictable path from discovery to operate.
- 01
Assess
Code, architecture, and dependency audit with business-aligned modernization options.
- Audit
- Options paper
- 02
Plan
Wave roadmap, target architecture, and risk register agreed with stakeholders.
- Roadmap
- Architecture
- 03
Modernize
Senior squads ship wave-by-wave with measurable outcomes per release.
- Releases
- KPIs
- 04
Cutover
Dual-running, data sync, and staged user migration with rollback ready.
- Cutover plan
- Rollback plan
- 05
Stabilize
Hypercare, defect triage, and quarterly modernization roadmap reviews.
- Hypercare
- Roadmap update
Technology stack
A modern toolbox, matched to your constraints.
From
- COBOL
- VB6
- .NET Framework
- Legacy Java
- PHP 5
- Delphi
To
- Modern .NET
- Java 21
- Node.js
- Python
- Go
Cloud
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Kubernetes
Data
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Snowflake
- BigQuery
Tooling
- Strangler façade
- CDC
- Feature flags
Industries
Sectors where we ship this service every quarter.
Education
Learning platforms, admissions workflows, faculty tools, and student-facing portals.
Healthcare
Patient portals, clinical workflows, and decision support built around privacy and uptime.
Finance & FinTech
Core banking, payments, KYC, risk, and embedded finance with strict security baselines.
Retail & E-commerce
Storefronts, marketplaces, fulfillment integrations, and AI personalization.
Logistics
Ops dashboards, IoT telemetry, route optimization, and warehouse automation.
Enterprise & SaaS
Internal platforms, partner portals, and multi-tenant SaaS products at scale.
Why HIGAET
The combination most agencies can't credibly offer.
Senior squads, low churn
We staff with engineers trained through the HIGAET Academy talent pipeline — no rotating juniors.
Product-minded delivery
Squads obsess over user outcomes and KPIs, not just ticket throughput or hours billed.
Enterprise governance
NDAs, IP assignment, audit logs, and SOC 2-aligned controls on every engagement.
Full-stack capability
Strategy, design, engineering, AI, data, and SRE — one accountable team, not a chain of vendors.
AI in the DNA
Every project considers where intelligent automation creates leverage for users and operators.
Skin in the game
We co-build with select partners, sharing both delivery risk and long-term upside.
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