Software Migration Services
Your legacy software is costing you more every day you stay on it
Redefine migrates businesses off outdated platforms to modern, scalable systems with zero production downtime and a handover package your team can maintain from day one. Fixed scope, fixed price, no guesswork.
50%
average manual work reduction
Zero
production downtime on cutover
3 days
to a scoped migration proposal
The Legacy Software Tax
The system you are waiting to replace is billing you right now
The pattern Redefine sees every week
A team of five operations staff spends twenty hours per week each doing manual workarounds for a system that should automate their work. At a blended rate of sixty-five dollars an hour, that is nearly three hundred and forty thousand dollars a year in hidden platform costs, before counting the errors, the delays, and the growth your team never had time to pursue.
Manual workarounds compound silently
Each workaround adds 15 minutes to a workflow that should
take 90 seconds. Over 200 working days, that is 50 hours
of pure waste per person per year on a single process
alone.
Delayed migration delays every decision
Inventory errors, reporting gaps, and integration failures
all trace back to the same root cause: a system that was
not built for the business you are running today.
The right time to migrate was six months ago
Every month of inaction adds more custom patches, more
training on workarounds, and a larger migration scope. The
project does not get easier, it gets more expensive.
50%
average manual workload reduction
Measured across Redefine ERP migration engagements. Manual tasks
that consumed half an operations team's day are either automated
or eliminated.
Zero
production downtime on final cutover
Redefine runs parallel environments until the new system is
proven stable in production. The cutover is a planned switch,
not a risky leap.
3 days
to a fixed-scope migration proposal
No multi-week discovery engagement before you see a price.
Submit a brief and Redefine returns a line-by-line migration
scope within three business days.
Your Legacy Software Cost Calculator
Watch the cost of staying on legacy software accumulate in real time
Adjust the inputs to match your team. The counter starts from the moment you arrived on this page and ticks up every second, showing the hidden cost of manual workarounds your modern system would eliminate.
5 people
1 person50 people
20 hours
1 hour40 hours / week
$65/hour
$30$200 / hour
Annual waste breakdown
Manual hours / year
5,200 hours
Labor cost wasted / year
$338K
Weekly waste
$6,500
Daily waste (workdays)
$1,300
Cost since you landed on this page
$0.00
Time elapsed on this page0s
Equivalent manual work-minutes0.0 min
At this rate, annual cost$338K
Every second your team stays on the legacy system, the meter runs. A migration scoped by Redefine eliminates the manual workload that drives this cost.
Stop Paying This Tax, Get ScopedThis models the labor cost of manual workarounds only. It does not include error recovery costs, delayed reporting costs, or the revenue your team never had time to pursue because they were managing the system instead of the business.
How Redefine Runs A Migration
Six phases. Every migration, every time.
Redefine does not improvise migration paths. Every engagement follows the same six-phase framework, adapted to your platform and data structure. Click a phase to see what gets delivered.
The framework is rigid by design, not because it ignores your specific situation, but because it has absorbed the edge cases from dozens of migrations and built the guard rails in.
01
Migration Audit
02
Target Architecture
03
Data Transfer
04
Testing and QA
05
Cutover Strategy
06
Handover Package
Phase 01
Migration Audit and Current State Map
Redefine maps your entire current system: every data model, every integration, every customization, and every workflow that people depend on. Nothing is assumed. The audit produces a written inventory your team reviews and signs off before any migration work begins.
- Complete data model documentation
- Integration inventory with dependency map
- Risk register and migration complexity score
- Written scope with week-by-week delivery plan
Data tables mapped247
Integrations identified14
Customizations documented31
Risk levelMedium, manageable
Phase 02
Target Architecture Design
Before any data moves, Redefine designs the target state. Which platform. Which data structure. Which integrations stay, which change, and which get replaced. The architecture document is reviewed by your team and approved before build begins.
- Platform selection with rationale
- Data model for target system
- Workflow redesign map
Phase 03
Data Transfer and Transformation
Data moves with schema transformation, deduplication, and validation scripts. Each table transfer is logged and reconciled. Redefine does not declare data transferred until the record counts and integrity checks match. No silent data loss.
- ETL pipelines with reconciliation logs
- Integrity validation per table
- Deduplication and data cleanse
Phase 04
Testing and Quality Assurance on Parallel Environment
Your new system runs on staging with a copy of production data while your team continues operating on the legacy system. Redefine runs automated regression tests, edge case validation, and user acceptance testing. Nothing goes live until your team signs off.
- Regression test suite per workflow
- User acceptance testing with your team
- Performance benchmark against current system
Phase 05
Zero-Downtime Cutover Strategy
The cutover plan is written and rehearsed before it happens. Redefine keeps the legacy system live until the new system has been running in production for a defined stability window. If anything fails, rollback is a documented, tested step, not a panic response.
- Written cutover runbook
- Rollback plan tested in staging
- 72-hour parallel run before legacy decommission
Phase 06
Handover Package and Training
Redefine does not close the project at go-live. The handover package includes user training, administration documentation, and a 30-day support window for questions. Your team can operate the new system independently without calling us first.
- User and admin training sessions
- Architecture and data flow documentation
- 30-day post-launch support window
Case Study
50% manual workload eliminated after ERP migration
Before migration
Client
Transpek Industry Limited
Chemical manufacturing • Heavily customized legacy ERP
The problem
The legacy ERP environment was non-integrated and dependent on manual data entry. This led to delivery delays, high labor requirements, limited visibility into inventory and production, and restricted the organization's ability to plan and scale efficiently.
- Manual data entry across all departments
- No real-time inventory or production visibility
- Delivery delays from planning gaps
- Limited compliance and traceability tracking
After migration
Solution
Upgraded to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 with MS SQL Server
integration, automated financial reporting, and an Indent
system for material traceability and stock movement control.
Result
0
reduction in manual workload, with increased production
capacity and lower operational costs
- Improved inventory visibility and demand forecasting
- Automated financial reporting across all workflows
- Compliance and traceability requirements met
- Organization positioned for sustained growth
Software migration pricing
Scoped before Sprint 1
Line-by-line breakdown before any work begins. No commitment to receive a proposal.
Scope drivers
- Volume of data and number of tables
- Customizations and integration complexity
- Compliance and traceability requirements
Every proposal includes the cost-of-inaction calculation above, showing the annual manual labor cost your migration eliminates, so you see the payback period before committing.
See software migration pricing details →Why Redefine For Software Migration
Four things other software migration companies rarely deliver
01 / Pre-migration audit
A migration audit before a single line of code
Most migration failures happen because the team did not know what was in the legacy system. Redefine audits every data model, integration, and customization before the migration begins. You approve the scope in writing before work starts, so surprises mid-project go to near zero.
Written scope sign-off before any migration work begins
02 / Cutover planning
Zero-downtime cutover, tested before go-live
The cutover plan is written and rehearsed on staging before the live switch. Your legacy system stays operational until the new system has proven stable in parallel. Rollback is a documented, tested step your team can execute independently, not a crisis response improvised under pressure.
Legacy stays live until the new system passes parallel
testing
03 / Data integrity
Data integrity validated at every transfer step
Redefine does not count data as transferred until record counts, integrity checks, and referential constraints are validated. Every table transfer produces a reconciliation log your team can audit. Silent data loss, the most common failure mode in legacy migrations, is designed out, not hoped away.
Reconciliation log produced for every table transfer
04 / Fast scoping
Scoped in 3 days, not after a 6-week discovery
Most software migration partners run multi-week paid discovery engagements before they will quote you a price. Redefine returns a scoped migration proposal within three business days of your brief. The proposal includes the audit findings, migration phases, delivery timeline, and fixed price. You decide with full information before committing.
Fixed-price proposal delivered in 3 business days
Common Questions
Questions before hiring a software migration company
Timeline depends on the volume of data, the number of integrations, and the complexity of customizations in the legacy system. A focused ERP upgrade with a well-documented existing system typically completes in 8 to 12 weeks. A full platform migration involving data transformation, third-party integrations, and compliance requirements runs 14 to 20 weeks. Redefine provides a week-by-week delivery plan as part of the scoped proposal, before any commitment is made.
Yes. Redefine builds the new system in parallel while your team continues running on the legacy environment. The legacy system stays live until the new system has been validated in a production-mirrored staging environment. Cutover is a planned, rehearsed event, not a forced shutdown. Your operations continue without interruption throughout the migration window.
Rollback is a written, tested procedure that exists before any cutover begins. If a critical issue surfaces during the stability window, your team switches back to the legacy system using the documented rollback runbook, without Redefine needing to be on a call. The legacy system remains live for a defined window after cutover specifically to make this possible. A rollback is a designed option, not an emergency improvisation.
Redefine has delivered migrations from legacy ERP systems (NAV 2009, NAV 2013, custom PHP platforms) to modern equivalents including Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 and above, headless ecommerce architectures, and custom-built platforms on Node.js and Laravel. If your legacy platform is not listed, submit a brief with the system details and Redefine will confirm whether the migration pattern is in scope.
Every data transfer runs on a staging copy, never directly on production. Each table transfer produces a reconciliation log with record counts and integrity checks before the transfer is marked complete. The production database is never touched until the staging environment has been fully validated by your team. A full backup of the legacy database is taken immediately before any production change and retained throughout the migration window.
Right Match?
Is Redefine the right software migration partner for you?
Good fit
Your team is spending significant time on manual workarounds
because the current system cannot automate their workflows
You are on a legacy ERP, PHP platform, or outdated ecommerce
stack and need to move to a modern, supported system
You need zero downtime on cutover, your operations cannot
tolerate a maintenance window of hours
You want a written scope with fixed pricing before any work
begins
Your team will maintain the new system after handover, you
need documentation they can actually read
Not a good fit
You need a one-week lift-and-shift with no documentation, a
lower-cost offshore team will be faster
Your legacy system has no documentation and you are not
willing to invest in an audit phase to map it
Your total budget is under $10,000, Redefine's minimum
engagement scope is higher than that
You want time-and-materials billing with no fixed scope, that
is not how Redefine prices
Not sure?
Tell us your situation
and we will be straight with you.
Start Here
Submit your brief. Get a scoped migration proposal in 3 days.
Tell us what your legacy system cannot do and what is costing your team the most time. Redefine returns a scoped migration plan with phase breakdown and fixed pricing within three business days.
- Call within 48 hours of brief submission
- Scoped migration proposal with fixed price in 3 days
- Migration audit begins within 1 week of sign-off
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48 hours
first call
3 days
proposal
50%
average workload reduction
Zero
downtime on cutover
No Commitment. No Pitch.
Your migration proposal is three days away
Submit your brief today. Redefine returns a complete migration plan, phased delivery, data transfer approach, fixed price, and week-by-week timeline, within three business days. You decide from there with full information.
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