Legacy application retirement
Stop paying to maintain legacy applications simply because users still need occasional access to historical information.
Move enterprise data to modern cloud applications. Preserve historical access. Reconcile every record. Retire costly legacy systems.
Retirement is blocked by exactly one thing: access to history. Remove that dependency properly — with the records preserved, reconciled and searchable — and every other reason for keeping the application falls away.
The saving is not one line item. It is the sum of everything an application consumes while it waits to be asked a question.
Annual vendor licence, maintenance or extended support fees on a platform that is no longer the system of record.
Data-centre or cloud hosting for application, database, integration and reporting tiers that exist only to serve look-ups.
Compute, storage, database licensing, environments and the non-production copies that shadow them.
Specialist skills retained for a platform nobody wants to work on, plus the knowledge risk when those people leave.
Unsupported or slowly-patched software holding historical finance, HR and payroll data is a live attack surface and a recurring audit finding.
Backup capacity, DR capability and the testing overhead for a system that has already been replaced.
The archive has to satisfy the same obligations the application did, or the retirement decision will not be signed off.
Transaction-level records with their approval and change history, retrievable on request.
Records held for their full retention period and disposed of on schedule, with evidence.
The reports users actually run, reproduced against archived data rather than against the retired system.
Scanned invoices, contracts and correspondence archived with the record they belong to.
An invoice with its supplier, purchase order, approvals and attachments — context, not isolated tables.
FOI and DSAR requests answered from the archive within statutory deadlines.
The blocker is almost never technical. It is that nobody will put their name to switching the system off. Reconciliation evidence is what converts a judgement call into a documented decision.
Illustrative figures shown to explain how reconciliation evidence is presented. They are not drawn from a specific customer engagement.
Retired after an Oracle Fusion or other cloud go-live.
Oracle EBS decommissioning →Retired by universities, councils and public bodies replacing their ERP.
Unit4 decommissioning →Retired after an S/4HANA or alternative cloud migration.
SAP ECC decommissioning →HCM and Financials retired after a move to Fusion or Workday.
PeopleSoft decommissioning →Workforce and timekeeping history archived ahead of retirement.
Kronos archival →Departmental Oracle and SQL Server systems that grew around the main ERP.
Assess your estate →Legacy Exit work is delivered as fixed-scope packages rather than open-ended consultancy. Scope, data volumes and retention requirements are established in a Legacy Exit Discovery, and the implementation is then quoted against that scope. Projects typically start from £25K.
Start here
A short, fixed-price engagement that produces the evidence a business case needs before any implementation is committed.
Single system
A single system of modest volume with limited attachments and a standard archive and access model.
Complex estates
Complex ERP or HCM estates where attachments, record relationships and controlled access carry as much weight as the row counts.
Public sector
Adds the information-governance support that NHS bodies, councils and universities need to evidence a retirement decision.
Programme scale
For large multi-object ERP and HCM migration programmes running repeated cycles across many data objects and workstreams.
Commercial model
Public-sector buyers can contract through G-Cloud 15. Commercial buyers contract directly.
Indicative packaging only. Prices are confirmed against agreed scope following a Legacy Exit Discovery.
Published SyntraETL engagements on the same architecture. Every figure below comes from the referenced case study rather than from a marketing claim.
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 →Historical records retained in a searchable archive so the source environment could be reduced.
Read the case study →A government body migrated Oracle EBS financials to Oracle Fusion with a controlled, repeatable and reconciled migration process.
Read the case study →Put your own licence, hosting, infrastructure and support numbers into the calculator to get an indicative annual and three-year saving, then request an assessment to turn it into a scoped business case.