Synescent
At Synescent, we understand how important it is to maintain your legacy systems and move forward with new development. This is why we have a team of experience software engineers who are ready to help you maintain your systems. With their help, you can be sure that all of your software is running smoothly and that you will not lose any of your best developers.
Making the smartest moves
Our team of experts understands how to work effectively across multiple platforms and languages, so they can provide experience software engineers to help you maintain your legacy systems while also moving forward with new development.
Relational Databases
We have extensive experience of maintaining and optimising databases like Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL. We can diagnose and troubleshoot performance problems. We analyse your databases and identify potentially independent data domains that are candidates for migration to autonomous servers. If required we can also generate scripts to assist with the migration process and synchronise data during any parallel running you may want to implement
Monolithic Applications
Even if you’re not considering a move to service-oriented architecture, there is still enormous value in disaggregating overgrown applications into discrete components and packages that can be independently and automatically tested. Routine maintenance becomes quicker and less error prone, key person risk is reduced and your ROI can be extended as our refactoring often allows existing code to be migrated to a new solution framework.
Web Services
We’ve all been there – your website is being developed, but you’re discovering that some of the older web services you are relying on are not compatible with recent versions of technology. Or maybe they were built to a different standard, and as a result, they no longer work properly in their latest iteration. Whatever the case may be, Synescent can help identify low-risk, cost-effective remedies to many of these issues that affect early instances of this technology. We understand how important it is for businesses to stay on top of new developments in order to avoid major disruptions in the future – so we offer our expert services at highly affordable rates!
Our Process
Analyse
Our analysts have years of experience in assessing the risks associated with legacy IT, and can provide a detailed analysis of your organization’s current security posture. By taking into account factors like obsolescence, team morale, and remediation costs, we are able to provide you with an accurate assessment of your IT risk.
IMPLEMENT
We are methodology agnostic and happy to work with SCRUM, Kanban or your preferred framework. We are in continuous dialogue with our clients throughout the process to ensure that progress is always visible and surprises are avoided!
Plan
We don’t deal in Powerpoint, we deal in practical plans with clear milestones and acceptance criteria that provide a realistic roadmap from your current to future state transformation
Review
As part of our pre and post implementation process we provide a detailed review stage where assumptions can be validated and all stakeholders can have a voice. We can provide documentation for existing systems and any revsions that form part of the plan.
Complete Control
We are happy to work within operational boundaries and constraints set by you. There may be some areas where you are comfortable granting us some autonomy – that often happens when we been working together for some time and trust has been established. Or, you may want to sign-off on work and ratify decisions as they arise. We are totally committed to working in a way that meets your needs
Why Choose Us
You know that your legacy system is going to require some attention soon. But what’s the right way to go about it? With years of experience in helping clients assess legacy technology risk, we can tell you exactly how much you’re likely to spend on maintenance, and when it’s time to update.
We also understand team morale and how important it is for employees to feel confident in their work environment, so we can help you identify changes that will improve productivity. And don’t forget about operational performance – an outdated system can hamper your business’ speed and agility, so we’ll keep an eye out for any potential threats here too. After all, with Synescent by your side, there’s nothing keeping you from reaching your full potential!
Experienced engineers
100% UK based
Onsite or Remote
Legacy is our Speciality
Cost effective
No agency fees
Mission
We help businesses like yours to build tomorrow’s products by meeting your legacy obligations today. We provide meaningful, challenging work to developers and engineers who no longer wish to be on the bleeding edge
Vision
We share our knowledge and experience of handling these complex transitions in order to liberate hard-working developers from carrying the burden of the past and to enable your business and your clients to benefit from the opportunities of the future
Values
We respect what has been achieved and recognise that all things must eventually pass. We believe that expertise should mean just that and all our people have a minimum of fifteen years industry experience
Frequently Asked Questions
Are you an agency ?
No. We are a collective of individuals operating cooperatively under the Synescent umbrella to deliver legacy systems support and transformation
Are you based offshore ?
No. We are completely UK based and available during the entire working day. Most of our current team are base in the South East but we regularly work with clients in the Midlands and the North
What your people experienced ?
Every member of our team has over twenty years IT experience gained in a range of businesses including software houses, investment banking, and starups
Can you work remotely ?
Absolutely. We also work on-site or some combination of the two. There can sometimes be networking and security challenges but we’ve always overcome them so far!
Get Started Today
With our years of experience, we know what it takes to maintain and migrate your systems successfully without introducing errors or vulnerabilities into your critical databases and network infrastructure. When you partner with us, you can rest assured that we will take care of all the necessary steps required so that your systems continue running smoothly while you create your future