IT Modernization
Make your legacy agile again and give your team its speed back
Get a grip on your own systems again
“What we had was a standalone system that we had to extract the data from every year. It had to be ’emptied’ and then filled in again from scratch for a new edition of the event.” – Jan Veldhuis (CoE Lead OutSystems at the Red Cross)
Your legacy costs you more than maintenance alone
Part of your team loses time every sprint to systems nobody likes to touch anymore. Every change takes weeks, because the knowledge sits with one or two people who have become indispensable. And when the business asks again why it takes so long, you’re the one explaining that “it’s complex”. While you’ve long sensed that this has to change.
Modernization takes that brake off. With low-code your team builds in days what used to take weeks, and the knowledge stays in-house instead of with that one specialist. By automating your tests, you safeguard quality without manual work and dare to release more often. And slowly the picture shifts: IT is no longer the department that slows things down, but the engine the business counts on.
Modernization that’s noticeable in your operation
To make your digital ambition happen, you need the right mix of knowledge, people and technology. Whether you’re migrating an old application or building a whole new platform, LINKIT builds alongside you. These are the three expertises we deploy most often.
Mendix
Build and renew business applications on the Mendix low-code platform.
OutSystems
Replace outdated systems with scalable applications in OutSystems.
Test Automation
Safeguard quality and shorten your time-to-market with automated testing.
Projects where modernization immediately creates room
From three months of planning to less than four weeks
For an event like the Nijmegen Four Days Marches, the Red Cross schedules 700 to 800 volunteers, each with their own availability and qualifications. For years, that puzzle ran on loose Excel files and an outdated application, re-entering all the data every year and checking by hand who was suitable. That was slow, error-prone and nobody’s favorite work.
Together with LINKIT, the Red Cross built two apps in OutSystems, one for registration and one for event management. Where planners used to puzzle for months, the system now links the data automatically to the volunteer database. Planning time dropped from three to four months to less than four weeks, more than 75% faster.
Replacing a 30-year-old monolith without shutting down operations
For over 30 years, TFG Transfracht ran on an IBM i5 system of 1.2 million lines of code. Once solid, by now a millstone: every new feature took weeks, the integrations were fragile and the number of people who still understood the system kept shrinking.
Together with LINKIT, TFG replaced the old monolith step by step with a modular Transport Management System in OutSystems. The difference is immediately noticeable: bookings that used to take days are now done in minutes. And perhaps more importantly, the internal team builds up to five times faster and manages the platform entirely on its own. The dependence on expensive suppliers has all but vanished and the technical debt is finally under control.
Build it yourself, manage it yourself, never locked to one supplier again
Waterboard Vechtstromen was stuck with Riloss, a logistics application whose supplier had not existed for years. Every day the app kept running cost time and money, and with every update to the surrounding environment the chance of a complete outage grew.
Instead of outsourcing it again, the waterboard chose to do it themselves. With LINKIT as their mentor, the internal team built a new OutSystems app in three weeks, largely on their own. The knowledge now sits within their own walls, so the team implements new wishes itself from now on. Never again dependent on a supplier that no longer exists.
The guide to reaching your digital destination
Are you stuck on outdated software, or do you want to take the next step in your modernization journey? A partner with a fresh perspective moves you forward. At LINKIT we work according to the 4D model: Discover, Design, Develop and Drive.
We start with your question, not with the technology. First we find out together which problem you’re really solving, and only then do we build, or teach your team to do it themselves. That way you keep control, long after we’re gone.
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