Legacy Application Assessment

Answer these questions about your application. You'll get a modernization urgency score and an estimate of what it's actually costing you.

Takes about 5 minutes. No email required.

About You

Help us understand your situation.

Your role

Company size (employees)

Industry

Compliance / regulatory requirements (check all that apply)

HIPAA PCI-DSS SOX SOC 2 FedRAMP GDPR Industry-specific None

Why are you taking this assessment?

When do you need this resolved?

The Application

What are we working with?

How many legacy applications do you have?

Primary backend language

Backend framework

Frontend

Build tool

Approximate lines of code

How old is the core codebase?

Architecture & Data

How is it structured?

Application structure

Internal code organization

Database engine

Database concerns (check all that apply)

Shared DB between apps Business logic in stored procedures Schema is undocumented No foreign keys / constraints Oracle licensing costs Data volume over 1TB

How many systems does this integrate with?

Integration patterns (check all that apply)

REST APIs SOAP / WSDL Message queues (MQ / Kafka / RabbitMQ) File transfers (FTP / SFTP / batch) Direct DB calls between apps ESB (MuleSoft / TIBCO / IBM) Mainframe (CICS / IMS) gRPC

How many integrations are documented?

Authentication

Infrastructure & Deployment

How does it run and how does it get there?

Where does it run?

Containerized?

How do you deploy?

How often do you deploy to production?

How long does a deploy take?

Can you roll back a bad deploy?

Environment count

Database migrations

Code Quality & Practices

How healthy is the engineering process?

Test coverage (your best guess)

Engineering practices (check all that apply)

Code reviews on PRs Linting / static analysis Auto-formatting / git hooks Style guide / coding standards Architecture documentation Application monitoring / APM Centralized logging Distributed tracing Feature flags Secrets management (Vault / AWS Secrets) Automated security scanning

How many people fully understand the entire system?

Have you tried to modernize before?

Team & Business Impact

The human and business cost.

Engineers on this application

Average loaded salary ($)

How much engineering time goes to maintenance?

70%

Mostly features Mostly maintenance

Engineers who quit in last 12 months (partly due to codebase)

Candidates who declined after learning about the stack

Production incidents per month

How scary is a production deploy?

Boring Terrifying 5

Analyzing your responses...

Modernization Urgency Score

Score Breakdown

Estimated Annual Cost of Legacy

Total estimated annual cost

Per year, every year you don't modernize

What We'd Recommend

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