United Kingdom
Migrate the Data. Retire the Legacy. Keep the History.
SyntraETL helps UK organisations migrate from legacy ERP, HCM and workforce applications while preserving secure, searchable and compliant access to historical records — so the old system can actually be switched off.
Firstcron Services UK Ltd is registered on G-Cloud 15, so NHS bodies, local authorities, universities and central government departments can engage SyntraETL for data migration, archival, reconciliation and legacy application retirement under an existing framework agreement rather than running a separate procurement.
What is bought
Migration, archival, reconciliation and decommissioning delivered as defined-scope work packages against agreed outcomes.
How it is bought
Call-off under existing framework terms rather than a new OJEU-style procurement exercise for each engagement.
Who you contract with
Engagements are contracted through Firstcron Services UK Ltd, the UK entity, with delivery by the SyntraETL team.
Most UK organisations replacing an ERP or HCM platform reach the same point: the new system is live, but the old one is still running — still licensed, still hosted, still patched, still audited — because a small number of people occasionally need something out of it.
Open balances, active suppliers and current employees go across. Closed periods, leavers, historical payroll and eight years of attachments do not fit the target data model and stay behind.
Finance needs prior-year comparatives. HR needs leaver records. Payroll answers queries going back years. Auditors, FOI officers and DSAR teams need evidence on demand.
Licence, hosting, database, backup, DR, patching, DBA time and an ageing security surface — all retained to serve a handful of look-up requests a month.
Without source-to-target reconciliation, an information asset owner cannot sign off switching the application off, so the decision is deferred another year.
A retention schedule requires the record to remain available and disposable on schedule. It does not require the original application to remain live.
Licence, infrastructure and support costs continue to be paid against a system that has already been functionally replaced.
SyntraETL moves the data that the new application needs, in controlled and repeatable cycles. Extraction, mapping, transformation, validation, load and reconciliation are run end to end more than once before anything touches production, so mapping and data-quality corrections are found in rehearsal rather than at cutover.
Everything the new application does not take is preserved instead of abandoned. Once the history is archived, reconciled and accessible, the legacy application has no remaining reason to run.
Archiving is only half the problem. The reason legacy systems survive is access, so DataLens gives named users a way to find a record without an IT request and without the source application.
Find an invoice, a payslip, a purchase order, an employee record or a document by the identifiers people actually use.
Run historical reports and export results for audit, FOI, DSAR and legal responses in a defensible format.
Access is scoped by role and integrated with your identity provider through SSO, so historical HR and payroll data stays restricted.
Every search, view and export is logged, which is usually stricter control than the legacy application offered.
Scanned invoices, contracts, correspondence and supporting documents are archived with the transaction they belong to, not separately.
A record arrives with its context — an invoice with its supplier, purchase order, approvals and attachments — rather than as an isolated table extract.
An archive nobody can prove is complete does not let anyone switch anything off. Every migration and archival cycle produces source counts, transformed counts, rejected records, target counts and control totals, categorised so that discrepancies are explained rather than discovered later.
Illustrative figures shown to explain how reconciliation evidence is presented. They are not drawn from a specific customer engagement.
SyntraETL reads from and writes to the enterprise applications UK organisations are actually leaving and actually moving to, plus the bespoke Oracle and SQL Server databases that accumulate around them.
The same platform handles the move, the retention and the access — which is what makes retiring the legacy application a deliverable rather than an aspiration.
Move
Extract, transform, migrate and reconcile. Pulls structured records, attachments, documents and audit history out of the legacy platform and prepares them for the target application in a repeatable, re-runnable cycle.
Explore DataMove →Preserve
Preserve historical enterprise data securely. Retains the records that do not belong in the new application — with lineage, retention rules and source-to-target reconciliation evidence attached to every load.
Explore DataVault →Access
Allow authorised users to search, retrieve, report and export historical records without keeping the legacy application running — under role-based access control and a full access audit trail.
Explore DataLens →Retirement decisions are made by information asset owners, not by IT alone. The archive is designed so that the obligations which currently justify keeping the legacy system are met by the archive instead.
SyntraETL provides the technical capability to meet these obligations. It does not provide legal advice, and retention decisions remain the organisation's own.
The commercial case is the same everywhere; the governance around it is not.
Published SyntraETL engagements on the same architecture. Every figure below comes from the referenced case study rather than from a marketing claim.
A local council moved PeopleSoft HCM to Oracle Fusion with effective-dated employment history preserved and reconciled.
Read the case study →A multi-hospital health system archived 18 data areas of timekeeping history into DataVault with reconciliation evidence, then ran a ten-stage decommissioning.
Read the case study →Finance, procurement and master data migrated out of SAP ECC with source-to-target reconciliation at every cycle.
Read the case study →A single mid-sized legacy ERP or HCM application typically carries licence or support renewal, hosting, database and storage, backup and disaster recovery, patching, security remediation and a share of DBA and application-support time. The archive that replaces it carries none of those.
Illustrative example. Actual savings depend on the system, contract terms, infrastructure, support model, retention requirements and implementation scope. Estimated three-year saving in this example: approximately £405,000.
NHS bodies, local authorities, universities and central government departments can engage SyntraETL under an existing framework agreement rather than running a separate procurement. The G-Cloud page sets out what can actually be bought, the engagement models available and the buyer questions that come up most often.
Each market has its own systems, triggers and obligations, so each has its own section rather than a translation of this one.
Deutschland
SAP ECC to S/4HANA and legacy retirement, with the 2027 Business Suite 7 maintenance milestone as the planning trigger.
SAP-Datenmigration & Stilllegung →Nederland
Unit4 and Agresso, the public sector and higher education, with historical finance, HR and payroll kept accessible.
ERP-datamigratie & uitfasering →France
SAP and Oracle finance transformation, with invoices, accounting entries and supporting documents preserved.
Migration ERP & archivage →A Legacy Exit Assessment establishes what is actually in the legacy estate, what has to be retained, what it currently costs to keep running and what retiring it would be worth — before any implementation is committed.