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Modernization 

Drive rapid optimization and growth through platform, application and data modernization.

Modernizing your legacy platforms and applications accelerates growth and innovation.

Undergoing a modernization initiative frees your IT organization to improve speed to market, increase agility, mitigate security risks, address the skills shortage, and reduce total cost of ownership. Techniques, such as designing a composable architecture with API enablement and data democratization at the very core makes data readily accessible and reusable to enable your enterprise to be ready for new opportunities. 

To achieve the many advantages of modernizing your platforms and applications, you need experts who live and breathe the best engineering practices using the latest technologies and methodologies, and who will architect and build solutions with minimal disruption to your business. Honing 30 years of engineering excellence at N & DS, we work alongside you for every step, or at any point, in your modernization journey to drive measurable results and open new doors for rapid growth by bringing together the right processes, the right tools, the right people with the right skills and the right platforms.  

 

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Modernization

Accelerate your business growth and optimization with our expert platform, application and data modernization solutions. Let us help you unlock new efficiencies, drive innovation and future-proof your IT infrastructure with cutting-edge technologies like Generative AI (GenAI) for automated optimization and hybrid cloud integration for scalability.

Platform Engineering

To get the most out of your modernization efforts, it's crucial to select and engineer the right platform tailored to your specific needs. We’re here to guide you through every step of the process, from platform and tooling selection to application design, automation and seamless integration. Our expertise also includes containerization technologies for enhanced platform flexibility and AI-driven service reliability engineering, ensuring peak performance while automating ITOps tasks to enhance efficiency and reduce operational overhead. Let us help you build a robust, future-ready platform that drives success and innovation for your business.

Legacy Application Migration

Migrating from legacy platforms to modern systems can be complex, but with the right approach, it doesn’t have to be overwhelming. We leverage a combination of Deterministic and Generative AI to automate code translation (e.g., COBOL to modern languages) and document legacy systems for faster transitions. Our smart automation drives significant efficiency gains throughout the process, ensuring a smooth and cost-effective migration. As seasoned experts, we’ve successfully guided numerous companies through every stage of legacy application migrationluding thorough assessments, application disposition planning, migration factories, data migration, automated testing frameworks and managed services. Let us help you modernize seamlessly, reduce risk and unlock the full potential of your business with our proven migration strategies.

In-Place Modernization

Our In-Place Modernization approach delivers impactful results with minimal time and expense, transforming your platform, application, mainframe or midrange systems. We focus on in-place optimization to lower your total cost of ownership (TCO), boost resiliency and reduce technical debt. By upgrading from legacy versions, we help you maintain platform support, ensure regulatory compliance, mitigate risks, enhance performance and leverage new features. Additionally, we increase agility and efficiency by seamlessly integrating your legacy development processes into your organization’s DevOps CI/CD ecosystem, setting the stage for a more streamlined and future-ready operation.

API Enablement

An effective, low-risk modernization initiative often starts with APIs, tackling key challenges posed by your legacy platforms. These include issues like limited interoperability with critical systems and the growing technical debt from outdated, redundant code that stifles growth and increases costs. Our approach modernizes your platforms and applications by guiding you through every step — from API discovery and creation to the necessary code refactoring — ensuring a smooth, scalable and cost-effective transformation that drives your business forward.

Data Enablement

Empower your teams to make the best data-based business decisions with the right data. We engineer your data strategy along with its roadmap by delivering a PoC and MVP using techniques like data factory, DataOps, data virtualization and in-place data analytics to enable data democratization in core systems ensuring it’s universally available and useful.

Standards & Architecture

For a successful modernization effort, you need an architectural design built on the best standards to ensure future scalability and growth. Our engineering excellence leverages industry best practices like TOGAF or ITIL frameworks to create a robust transformation roadmaporporating proven patterns such as modular microservices architecture and optimization techniques to design a flexible, composable architecture. We deliver a solution that not only drives immediate value but also positions your business for long-term success and seamless growth.

Governance & Culture

Our corporate-wide modernization strategy is designed to drive your business forward with the best governance practices to ensure top-notch quality, compliance and success. We empower your organization by upskilling teams on modern tools like automation platforms, containerization technologies (e.g., Kubernetes), hybrid cloud management tools and DevOps pipelines. Our approach includes business continuity planning, a dedicated modernization center of excellence (CoE), validation automation, AI-driven testing tools, strong financial operations (FinOps) and cost controls — all focused on delivering impactful modernization results. Additionally, we use AI-powered productivity measurement tools to define and prioritize key modernization patterns while fostering cross-skilling initiatives to enhance workforce agility. Let us transform your organization’s legacy skills into cutting-edge expertise while improving developer experience — positioning you for sustainable success in the digital age.

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Featured Solutions

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Platform Modernization Tool Suite

Includes static and dynamic analyzers that enable the modernization team to gain a comprehensive understanding of application artifacts, dependencies and the mapping of business domains to technology, all with minimal customer input. These application insights expedite the modernization process whether it is an application migration, in-place modernization or application replacement.

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Maestro 

Maestro is a hybrid cloud management platform that provides a unified entry point to your infrastructures in public clouds and private datacenters. It enables effective management, reporting, FinOps, security compliance checks, performance insights, ML-based optimization suggestions, automation and DevOps tooling.

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migVisor™

migVisor is a first-of-its-kind cloud migration assessment product that helps companies analyze database environments and generate a visual cloud migration roadmap to accelerate database migration to the cloud, helping identify the best migration path for each database.

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N & DS Delivery Platform

EDP is an orchestrated combination of enterprise software engineering methodologies, architectural frameworks, and development processes and tools. The solution synchronizes and streamlines the many steps that are key to success to enterprise software engineering projects.

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Agile Security Platform

Agile Security Platform offers streamlined penetration testing as a service. Applying an agile security approach, the platform integrates penetration testing into software delivery cycles to enable continuous monitoring of security posture and detection of vulnerabilities.

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Platform Modernization Tool Suite

Includes static and dynamic analyzers that enable the modernization team to gain a comprehensive understanding of application artifacts, dependencies and the mapping of business domains to technology, all with minimal customer input. These application insights expedite the modernization process whether it is an application migration, in-place modernization or application replacement.

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Maestro 

Maestro is a hybrid cloud management platform that provides a unified entry point to your infrastructures in public clouds and private datacenters. It enables effective management, reporting, FinOps, security compliance checks, performance insights, ML-based optimization suggestions, automation and DevOps tooling.

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migVisor™

migVisor is a first-of-its-kind cloud migration assessment product that helps companies analyze database environments and generate a visual cloud migration roadmap to accelerate database migration to the cloud, helping identify the best migration path for each database.

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N & DS Delivery Platform

EDP is an orchestrated combination of enterprise software engineering methodologies, architectural frameworks, and development processes and tools. The solution synchronizes and streamlines the many steps that are key to success to enterprise software engineering projects.

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Agile Security Platform

Agile Security Platform offers streamlined penetration testing as a service. Applying an agile security approach, the platform integrates penetration testing into software delivery cycles to enable continuous monitoring of security posture and detection of vulnerabilities.

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FEATURED

Blog

The Case for Modernization

Blog

Engineering, Modernization

The Case for Modernization

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Capabilities

    • Platform Engineering
    • Modernization Assessment (Portfolio & Application)
    • Automated Application Understanding
    • Legacy Application Migration
    • Legacy Application Replacement & Decommissioning
    • In-Place Modernization
    • CI/CD Retrofitting
    • API Enablement
    • Data Enablement
    • Transformation Roadmap Development
    • Architecture Design
    • Modernization Strategy, CoE & Governance
    • Business Continuity Planning
    • Agile Development 

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