Fix the foundation
Modernise the estate that outgrew itself
Your roadmap is waiting on systems that got you here and now take a quarter to change. Our senior engineers read what you have, tell you which parts are worth keeping, and move one capability at a time with real traffic, switching off the old path as they go.
Everything works, and nothing can change
Nothing is on fire, but a system nobody can safely change still costs a quarter every time somebody asks for something.
A small change takes a quarter
Four systems have to agree on it and nobody is certain what depends on what.
The integrations are the estate
A decade of acquisitions and point-to-point connections. Most of the expensive failures are integration failures wearing another name.
The move happened and nothing changed
The workloads run in the cloud now. They run the same way, cost more, and the reasons anybody wanted to move are still on the list.
The estate is not badly built. It was built for a company that was smaller, and nobody has been funded to redesign it since.
The shift
Three ways to modernise
One of them is the reason people distrust the word.
Lift and shift
Moved, and unchanged
Rewrite it
Correct, and it does not land
Strangle it in order
Incremental, and it finishes
How the work runs
Sequenced so that value arrives before the programme does, because a modernisation that pays nothing for a year gets cancelled in month nine.
Read what exists
Honestly, including telling you which parts are worth keeping. We would rather do that than sell a rewrite you may not need.
Find the seams
Where a capability can be extracted without the rest noticing. This is most of the skill and it is why the order matters.
Extract one thing
The first capability moved end to end, with traffic actually shifted, so the pattern is proven rather than designed.
Durable workflows at the joins
The multi-day, multi-system processes that must never half-complete get rebuilt on durable execution rather than on retries and a nightly job.
Retire the old path
Each extraction ends with the previous route turned off, because two live paths is how a modernisation becomes permanent.
Leave the map
The written record of what was decided, so the next extraction does not start by rediscovering the estate.
One at a time
Capabilities extracted, each with the old path retired
The failure mode we design against
The most common estate we are called into has already been through one of these. It moved, it cost more, and the constraints stayed. Sequencing for early value is the whole difference and it is a choice made in week one.
Clients we have done this for
B2B ecommerce
AmTab
AmTab, a table manufacturer, had orders moving between departments on paper while demand climbed. Senior engineers from TechFabric worked through those manual steps with AmTab's own people first, then connected the amtab.com store, the CRM and Business Central, so an order placed online reaches the ERP that invoices it without anyone retyping it.
Supply chain
SmartCert
Aerospace distributors were scrapping good parts because the certificates proving what they were got lost in email attachments. With Aramid, our senior engineers built SmartCert on Azure and took it into production. A QR code on each package opens the documents for that exact shipment, and links to Epicor Prophet 21 and Dynamics 365 Business Central mean nobody retypes a certificate. Since launch, none have been lost.
FAQ
Estate modernisation: common questions
We already migrated to the cloud. Was that wasted?
No, and it is a common starting point. The move solved hosting. What is usually left is the reason anybody wanted to move, and that work is separable from the hosting decision.
Do you rewrite or refactor?
Extract, mostly. A rewrite is occasionally right and it is almost never the first answer, because the business keeps changing while it happens and two live systems is a worse position than the one you started in.
How do we justify this internally?
By the first extraction paying for itself. If the sequence does not put value in front of the programme, it will be cancelled in month nine and that is a reasonable thing for a board to do.
If your problem is shaped differently
Build an agentic software factory
Launch a product in a regulated vertical
Take the AI demo to production
Move off the warehouse without a Friday night
Make the estate answer for itself
Keep people in charge of the agents you already run
Leave your team able to do it without us
See what production is doing, and be allowed to act