Pillar 02 · Application & Database Modernization
Retire the legacy stack. Reallocate the budget. Cut over on a date you can put in a board update.
A legacy application and database layer with eighteen years of accumulated debt is not a cost line. It is a tax on every future AI decision. We retire it on a fixed date and absorb the overage if we slip. The license and maintenance spend reallocates to the work that compounds.
What Changes
The capital allocation moves.
A retired legacy stack is the largest single budget reallocation most CFOs will make in this cycle. The license renewal that was inevitable becomes the budget that funds the agentic platform. The maintenance contract on a system no one understands becomes the cloud spend that grows with the business. The integration tier that bills hours to keep itself alive becomes a clean substrate the next program can build on.
What customers tell us mattered after cutover:
- Predictable cloud-native spend replaced a license renewal cycle.
- The AI program had a foundation it could run against, instead of around.
- The board stopped asking when the legacy stack would be modernized.
How We Deliver
The analysis is automated. The refactoring judgment is not.
Aedeon handles the code analysis, the dependency mapping, the test generation, and the parallel-run instrumentation that traditionally consumed senior engineering hours. Forward-deployed engineers own the refactoring decisions, the risk-weighted cutover, and the production sign-off. The customer's engineering team takes over the running system on customer-signed acceptance.
In Production
Where this work has landed.
PILLAR · APP & DB · VERTICAL · MANUFACTURING
Synaptics: Oracle retirement, automated
Mactores automated Synaptics' Oracle-to-AWS migration. The semiconductor analytics workload moved without disruption; the Oracle license renewal that was inevitable became the budget that funded the next initiative.
PILLAR · APP & DB · VERTICAL · FSI
Branded Payments Leader: Technical debt retired
Mactores cleared an accumulated technical debt backlog for a branded-payments leader. The regulated workload modernized without an audit incident. The engineering team's velocity on new feature work doubled.
What Changes in the Contract
Modernization on a date you can budget against.
The model you've bought before
- Time and materials
- Strategy partner hands to delivery partner
- Pilot reaches a status review, not production
- Legacy "stays running in parallel for safety"
The Mactores model
- Fixed-date, fixed-fee
- Same firm scopes and ships
- Production cutover with customer-signed acceptance
- Legacy retired, parallel-run abandoned on schedule
Retire the foundation. Reallocate the budget. Run AI on what's left.