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Legacy Software Modernisation.

Free your business from legacy drag with cloud-native capability, modern architecture and better UX.

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Rebalance the cost and value of your legacy applications.

We help you migrate, re-architect and rebuild your operationally critical but hard-to-maintain apps into modern, scalable and performant solutions.

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Decrease operational risk and cost.

Eradicate technical debt, reduce maintenance overhead and break dependence on highly specific developer skills.

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Integrate with other apps and systems.

Build flexibility into your architecture and APIs to create feature-rich ecosystems and new capabilities.

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Make user experience competitive.

Transform presentation and performance for users accustomed to state-of-the-art applications to stay competitive and relevant.

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Eliminate security and supportability concerns.

Increase efficiency and decrease system failures, poor performance and security vulnerabilities.

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PicMonkey.

The next level of online image editing.

As a photo editing and design platform, PicMonkey’s ever-expanding library of effects, graphics, tools and fonts, supported by its tutorial and tip-rich resource centre, makes designing easy for everyday creatives.

What initially started out as the maintenance and improvement of an existing (Flash-based) web platform turned into a project of a significantly larger scope. In addition to simultaneously building a brand new WebGL platform we also relaunched PicMonkey’s mobile apps, enabling them to fully harness the potential of a modern technology stack.

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Our approach to legacy modernisation.

The expertise, experience, tech and processes that make your transition as frictionless as possible.

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Modernisation strategy.

A business value-first approach to modernisation.

Ascent’s legacy software modernisation capability is part of a broad, mature offering that combines software architecture, engineering and design thinking with data, AI and platform capabilities. Working closely with your teams, we’ll help you modernise and standardise core software in your business, removing barriers to growth and scale, enhancing experience and unlocking potential at a fraction of the time and cost it would take to achieve the same outcome with your existing internal resources.

We take the time to understand your unique business context, ensuring that we propose a structured, commercially aware modernisation strategy that releases value as early as possible and avoids embarking on a complete rewrite/ rebuild approach unless this is agreed as the right route forward for your business.

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Migrate.

Rehost or replatform your application in the cloud with minimal or no changes to your code.

We recommend migration as a modernisation strategy in scenarios where core application functionality and architecture remain unchanged, but smaller scale updates (eg. to databases or UX) are required. Depending on the criticality of your app or system, the impact of a failed migration can be catastrophic. Successful migrations require experience and muscle memory, and are best performed by domain specialists who deliver them routinely.

Ascent teams are experts in migration and deployment to Azure. We work with you to understand your existing solution and collaborate with you on the design of a target state that balances potential value and cost of change. We then develop a robust migration plan for your application, underlying data and associated infrastructure, and mobilise a migration delivery team with the most relevant experience to your use case.

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Transform.

Unlock growth and scale whilst improving experience.

Refactoring code and/ or rearchitecting your platform enables you to radically improve or extend the features and functionality of your application. This approach is most relevant to businesses whose tech stack is relatively up-to-date, but are looking to integrate with third-party services or build custom modules to drive broader, longer-term benefit.

We work with you to optimise your application architecture, replacing individual legacy components with standardised, extensible services that help you avoid the same legacy scenario and modernisation requirement further down the line. We also look at your codebase and propose improvements that make it more efficient, easier to understand and simpler to maintain. This refactoring makes your software more robust, faster and easier to integrate with other systems.

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Rebuild.

Start from scratch to meet new business requirements, use cases and user requirements.

In a rebuild scenario, your new system matches the previous version in terms of functionality, designing out issues and capitalising on new opportunity to deliver additional features, improved performance, great UX/ UI and scalable architecture.

Ascent’s digital specialists work with you to design the optimal solution, challenging the status quo to unlock more business and user value before moving into delivery. Our flexible full-stack engineering teams apply an Agile/ DevOps mindset to your project to ensure high velocity output, frequent release cycles and rapid iteration to reduce your time-to-value. We also offer an optional onward service path geared to deliver high volumes of smaller scale changes and optimisations in BAU.

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Our customers.

Ascent works with over 150 businesses in the UK, Europe and North America. From global insurance, healthcare and retail to smart home devices, space exploration and cricket - we get to work with some of the sharpest minds in the brightest businesses.

Taking CX to the next level with AI for 200,000 members.

INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS

ICAEW

Empowering the evolution of online learning for a leading global platform.

LINKEDIN LEARNING

Improving health and well-being through data transformation.

GSK

GSK

Reducing time-to-market for automotive innovation. 

BOSCH

Bosch

Creating compelling omnichannel experiences from bar to browser.

BREWDOG

Pouring beer

Empowering the actuarial community to solve problems with R.

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SWISS RE

Rebuilding a complex online image editing application for scale.

PICMONKEY

Enabling data science teams to drive class-leading consumer engagement.​

HARRODS

Harrods

Sparking financial literacy and empowering young investors.

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Introducing formal QA processes, optimising delivery and improving software quality.

RHI MAGNESITA

Democratising data to engage new communities & protect the UK seabed.

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Parablennius

Evolving a global infrastructure team into a proven Centre of Excellence for cloud.

BDO

BDO

Optimising performance & support with 360° insight into the elite Women’s game.

ENGLAND & WALES CRICKET BOARD

Digitalising orders, boosting efficiency and simplifying communication.

STRABAG

Promoting collaborative experimentation in sustainable food production.

SYNGENTA

Enhancing customer service with an intuitive online portal for managing insurance policies and claim processing.

GRAWE

Creating a seamless UX to simplify skin cancer risk assessments and build user trust.

SKINSCREENER

Improving experience and making life simpler for home automation customers.

HIVE

Thermostat

Developing an intuitive online tool for exterior landscaping design.

MEYER

Bringing on-demand to the UK’s favourite TV listing and review platform.

RADIO TIMES

Hive

Reducing cost, accelerating innovation and attracting new talent in healthcare.

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Explore our other services.

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Software Engineering

Next-level custom software development for secure, modern, functional and beautiful digital products and services.

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Maximise your product and service potential with expert research, analysis and human-centred design.

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Integration & Automation

Transform customer experience, analyse vast datasets, automate tasks, reduce costs and get new ideas to market faster.

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Nearshore Teams

Engage talented data, software and cloud engineering resources on flexible medium and longterm contracts.

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Let’s get started.

We’ll help you supercharge the delivery of your software products and projects, with the technical capabilities, platforms and processes to get you there on budget, on time, every time. Got a challenge in mind? We’re ready when you are.

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