Refactor your legacy applications for the cloud with Transparity
Our application modernisation service empowers organisations to reduce operating costs and boost business agility by transforming existing systems into cloud-native applications. We have a strong track record of helping organisations across the UK consolidate, re-architect, and replace critical legacy enterprise applications, ensuring they are optimised for the cloud.
Transparity’s azure application development services help you reimagine your enterprise applications, making them fit for purpose in a modern, cloud-native environment.
Transparity as an Azure Expert MSP with a direct relationship to Microsoft can leverage funding to aid you in your legacy app modernisations.
With enterprise technology being an ever-evolving landscape, it proves cost-effective to refactor legacy applications to benefit from innovations in the cloud. As important as the modernisation itself is the team you task with the responsibility of implementing it.
At the outset, we work closely and consultatively with you so that the true business requirements are captured and analysed. Ensuring that business processes are reflected in the updated cloud-native architecture, and designs are streamlined, efficient and flow logically.
We begin by carefully scoping and designing a tailored path to transition your applications into cloud-native solutions. This involves configuring secure environments, setting up Infrastructure as Code, and integrating CI/CD pipelines. These steps ensure your modernised apps are efficiently deployed, scalable, and fully equipped to take advantage of current cloud technologies.
Our next focus is the dedicated modernisation of your applications, where we employ cloud-native engineering practices. During this stage, we transform legacy systems into agile, scalable cloud-native apps, ensuring every development sprint is strategically documented and carefully managed. Regular reviews keep the project aligned with your organisation’s goals, driving your applications towards a seamless transition into the latest cloud environments.
Rigorous software testing, blending manual and automated methods including BDD, Gherkin, and Playwright, is central to our approach as we refactor applications for cloud-native services. This ensures that each refactored solution is robust, meets project requirements, and excels under user acceptance testing—delivering quality, scalable apps that maximise the advantages of modern cloud platforms.
We ensure a seamless handover by mentoring your team and offering tailored ongoing support, including azure application development services and managed services. Our focus on cloud-native architecture guarantees your modernised applications remain agile, scalable, and future-proof, leveraging the full benefits of the cloud while maintaining robust, efficient, and well-supported solutions long after initial delivery.
We have noticed a dramatic improvement in our development speed and the quality of work is high. This is due to the direct communication we have with their developers to discuss and solve problems. We look forward to continuing to work with Transparity and continuing to grow and improve our Care Database.
Companies across all industries are facing an increasingly competitive market, with newer cloud-based products and services regularly emerging as market leaders. Your traditional system, though excellent in its time, has now become an outdated legacy application. Patches that worked in the short term have now created slowdowns and incompatibilities. The functionality of your system is being compromised and you need to do something about it.
As technology advances, consumers and employees alike expect smoother interfacing, better performance, faster transactions and larger data requirements. Simultaneously, data and privacy standards have increased. In short, out-of-date legacy systems can risk your spot in the marketplace.
Simply put, it’s no longer viable to run core aspects of business on outdated applications. Familiar though you may be with the systems you’ve always used, the time for application modernisation has come. Far from a burdensome task, modernisation, executed with the right strategy and expertise, paves the way for seamless operations and sets a strong foundation for your business’s future growth.
In this whitepaper, we’ll unpack the process so you can set up an architecture that’s resilient, efficient and capable of adapting to upcoming challenges
Transparity’s azure application development services leverage Azure and its development platform’s cloud-native ecosystem, offering a comprehensive suite of tools designed to empower modern businesses. Together, these tools enable organisations to achieve greater agility, scalability, and cost-efficiency, while ensuring high availability and compliance for mission-critical workloads in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Core services like Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Container Apps, and Azure Functions enable seamless deployment and scaling of microservices and serverless applications.
Solutions such as Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database, and Azure Storage provide robust, scalable, and secure options for managing data—supporting everything from high-throughput transactional workloads to globally distributed applications.
Azure App Service accelerates the creation and deployment of web and mobile apps, allowing for rapid innovation without the burden of infrastructure management.
Serverless Computing saves money by allowing applications to be developed and deployed with no reference to actual servers. Our Azure Development team can help with:
Azure also supports Containers, such as Docker, which are the latest form of virtualisation. These lightweight virtual machines contain parts of larger apps and can be rapidly deployed and managed independently to deliver microservices architecture.
As an Azure development house, Transparity uses containers to isolate software from its surroundings and provide non-conflicting environments across teams.
Our Azure development team can help you with:
Application modernisation is a process of updating a business’s current applications to a cloud-first model. It’s also known as legacy app modernisation, and is designed to take advantage of technical cloud innovations and extend the lifespan of an organisation’s current apps.
Businesses that benefit most from application modernisation are those that have significant investments, both financially and operationally, in an outdated application portfolio. In such cases, organisations are often unwilling to retire their applications and start again, as the costs can be too high. Application modernisation offers an alternative solution where organisations can update their legacy systems to benefit from more modern technology without the need to start from the beginning.
Not necessarily. Application modernisation focuses on updating your current systems, so you can retain business-critical features and data while enhancing performance and security. Complete replacement is only recommended if it aligns with your broader business goals.
The timeline varies depending on the complexity, size, and requirements of your applications. We work with you to create a tailored modernisation plan that balances speed, risk, and business continuity.
Azure application development refers to building, deploying, and managing software applications on Microsoft Azure, a leading cloud computing platform. Azure provides a robust environment for developing web, mobile, and enterprise applications, taking advantage of cloud scalability, security, and a rich set of integrated services.
The Azure Development Platform offers global reach, enterprise-grade security, high availability, and a broad ecosystem of services such as databases, AI, IoT, and DevOps tools. With Azure, businesses can scale resources on demand, accelerate time-to-market, reduce infrastructure costs, and ensure compliance with industry standards.
Absolutely. Once applications are modernised and cloud-ready, they can leverage Azure’s advanced offerings such as AI/ML, analytics, IoT, DevOps, and security services, unlocking new business capabilities and insights.
Signs your application may need app modernisation include frequent outages, slow performance, high maintenance costs, security vulnerabilities, and difficulty integrating with new technologies. A professional assessment can help determine the best approach for your specific business needs.
