Escape Technical Debt with Smart Modernization
We help enterprises untangle decades-old systems and move to modern, maintainable architectures — without the big-bang risk that kills most migration projects.
Trusted by innovative teams worldwide
Certified Teams for Mission-Critical Migrations
Our engineers carry the credentials that matter when modernizing systems you can't afford to break.
Modernization Without the Midnight Outages
We've refined a methodology that migrates production systems incrementally — your users never notice the transition happening beneath them.
Legacy System Assessment
Deep technical audit of your existing codebase, infrastructure, dependencies, and data stores — producing a modernization feasibility report with clear risk ratings.
Migration Strategy & Roadmap
Strangler fig, lift-and-shift, re-architecture, or rebuild — we recommend the right pattern for each component and phase the work to minimize business disruption.
Containerization & Cloud Migration
We decompose monoliths into containerized services, set up orchestration with Kubernetes, and migrate workloads to AWS, Azure, or GCP with automated rollback capabilities.
API Layer & Integration Modernization
Legacy systems often have brittle integrations. We build modern API layers that let new services communicate with old systems during the transition period.
Data Migration & Validation
Schema mapping, ETL pipeline development, and automated data validation — ensuring every record migrates correctly with full audit trails for regulated industries.
Performance & Cost Optimization
Post-migration performance tuning, right-sizing cloud resources, and implementing auto-scaling — so you're not just modern, you're efficient.
Your Legacy Systems Are Holding You Back
Get a free modernization assessment — we'll show you exactly where to start.
Modernization that pays for itself within the first year.
Our clients typically see 60% lower maintenance costs, 10× faster deployments, and dramatically improved developer productivity within months of migration.
Why Our Modernization Approach Actually Works
Most modernization projects fail because they try to do everything at once. We use incremental strategies that deliver value at every stage — not just at the end.
Why Enterprises Trust Us With Their Legacy Systems
We've modernized banking cores, insurance platforms, and logistics systems — the hardest migrations there are.
Tell Us About Your Legacy Challenge
Describe your current systems and we'll outline a modernization strategy within 48 hours.
Our Engagement Process
System Audit
Deep-dive into codebase, infrastructure, data stores, and integrations — producing a risk-rated assessment report.
Migration Blueprint
Strategy selection per component (strangle, lift-shift, rebuild), phased roadmap, and resource planning.
Test Harness Setup
Automated regression and integration test suites built against current system behavior before any changes.
Incremental Migration
Component-by-component migration with continuous validation, blue-green deployments, and rollback capability.
Validation & Handoff
Full production validation, performance benchmarking, team training, and runbook documentation.
What Our Clients Say
“We had a 15-year-old COBOL-based claims system that three vendors said was "unmigrateable." OpenMalo broke it into manageable pieces and migrated it to cloud-native microservices over 8 months. Not a single production incident during the transition.
“OpenMalo modernized our core banking middleware without any downtime for our 200,000 customers. Their strangler fig approach was exactly right — we saw improvements at every phase, not just at the end of a year-long project.
“The ROI was staggering. Our monthly AWS bill dropped 42% after migration because the old system was so inefficiently architected. OpenMalo's team optimized everything from database queries to container sizing.
From COBOL to Cloud in 8 Months — Zero Downtime
Core Claims System Migration for Meridian Insurance
How we migrated a 15-year-old COBOL-based claims processing system to cloud-native microservices — handling 12,000 daily claims with zero downtime during the entire transition.
A mission-critical system nobody dared to touch
Meridian Insurance's claims engine processed $2.3B in annual claims on a COBOL codebase last updated in 2014. Three previous modernization attempts had been abandoned due to risk.
Our Approach: 6-week reverse engineering sprint to document all business rules, automated test harness built against production behavior, strangler fig migration of 12 bounded contexts over 8 months, parallel-run validation for each component before cutover.
Read Full Case StudyFrequently Asked Questions
We use blue-green deployments, canary releases, and parallel-run validation. Each component is migrated independently with automatic rollback capabilities. We never do full cutovers — traffic is shifted gradually as validation confirms correctness.
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