Data Archival and Migration for an Insurance Group
An insurance group needed to decommission legacy OpenText ALM and PPM platforms while keeping historical data, attachments and audit trails accessible — without staying tied to the legacy vendor.
Solution
Application Modernization & Legacy Transformation
Modernize the systems your business depends on without turning every transformation into a full rewrite. We help teams improve architecture, migrate legacy platforms, modernize integrations and build a safer path toward maintainable software.
Modernization without the big-bang rewrite
Legacy systems often contain more than old technology. They hold years of business rules, integrations, operational knowledge and data that still matter.
A useful modernization strategy starts by understanding those dependencies. Some systems should be replaced. Others should be refactored, re-platformed or gradually separated into smaller components — and some are best retained as they are, or retired entirely.
We choose the path based on technical and business constraints rather than forcing every system into the same modernization pattern. When a full rewrite genuinely is the best option, we say so — it is a deliberate decision, not the default.
What we modernize
Legacy applications
Refactor, replace or progressively decompose applications that have become difficult to change, operate or integrate.
Architecture
Restructure application and system architecture to improve maintainability, scalability and ownership boundaries.
Platforms & infrastructure
Move applications toward more maintainable cloud, container or on-premise platform environments where it creates real operational value.
Integrations
Modernize brittle interfaces, point-to-point dependencies and legacy integration patterns while protecting existing business workflows.
Data & archival
Migrate, restructure or archive historical data while preserving integrity, traceability and business access requirements.
Delivery & operations
Modernize CI/CD, deployment processes, test automation, observability and operational workflows alongside the application itself.
Choose the right modernization path
Modernization is not one approach. These are the standard patterns we work with — most engagements combine several, and no system is forced into a pattern that does not fit it.
- Retain
- Keep stable components where change would create little additional value.
- Rehost
- Move workloads with minimal application change when infrastructure is the primary constraint.
- Re-platform
- Change the runtime or platform while keeping the core application largely intact.
- Refactor
- Restructure parts of the application to improve maintainability, scalability or integration.
- Replace
- Build or adopt a new solution when the current system has become a structural limitation.
- Retire
- Remove systems and dependencies that no longer provide enough business value to justify operating them.
These are standard industry modernization patterns, not a proprietary framework. The engineering work is deciding which pattern applies to which system — and in what order.
From assessment to production
Understand
Architecture, dependencies, business-critical workflows, data and operational constraints — before anything is changed.
Decide
Modernization priorities, migration strategy, sequencing and the technical risks of each option.
Modernize
Implementation: architecture changes, migration, integration work and platform changes, delivered in controlled steps.
Validate
Functional testing, test automation, data validation and performance checks where relevant.
Transition
Deployment, documentation, knowledge transfer and operational readiness.
Operate
Optional ongoing application and platform support after the transition, under an agreed scope.
Modernization in practice
Members of the current VOTUM team have delivered enterprise modernization and migration projects before VOTUM IT EOOD & Co KD was founded in 2024.
Modernization across the software lifecycle
Modernization spans more than application code. One team covers the disciplines a transformation touches — from technical direction to long-term operations:
Why VOTUM
- Senior-led delivery — the engineers making technical decisions stay directly involved in the work.
- Architecture and implementation stay connected: the people who design the target state help build it.
- Pragmatic modernization, driven by the constraints of your systems rather than by technology preferences.
- Software, DevOps, quality and operations expertise in one team.
- Knowledge transfer and operational readiness are part of the engagement, not an afterthought.
Planning a modernization?
Whether you are replacing a legacy application, migrating data, modernizing architecture or improving the platform around an existing system, we can help define a practical path forward.
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