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Refactor and migrate outdated systems to cloud-native platforms without data loss or downtime. Evolved Ideas helps CTOs and IT Directors in Leicester modernise legacy software, monolith to microservices migration, and application migration.
Trusted by enterprises, scaleups and startups
Outdated systems accumulate technical debt, slow feature delivery, and increase operational risk. They often run on deprecated technology stacks, making it hard to hire developers who understand them. Monolithic architectures become costly to maintain and risky to change. Migration is rarely trivial, but staying put costs more in the long run through lost agility, security exposure, and staff frustration.
We start by understanding your current system's architecture, data flows, and dependencies. Rather than rip-and-replace projects that risk business continuity, we favour iterative refactoring and incremental migration. We design a cloud-native target state that fits your operations team's capabilities and your business roadmap. Testing, rollback plans, and phased cutover strategies are built in from day one. Your IT Director and operations team stay in the loop; we don't hand over a black box.
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Our Leicester head office means your CTO or IT Director can meet the team working on your modernisation. We also draw on specialist expertise from our Spain and Ukraine hubs, giving you cost-effective engineering without losing communication or accountability. Time zone alignment with your operations means faster feedback loops and quicker resolution of blockers.
WHAT YOU GET
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
Working with Evolved Ideas has been the best experience I've ever had with a technology company. Everything that's done is done carefully. I like how my project team treats my product. We have people using our platform and getting value from it now, which wouldn't be possible without Evolved Ideas.
Jamie Beaumont
CASE STUDIES
conveybuddyLearn how conveybuddy launched in just six months with the right technology partner, revolutionising the conveyancing process with efficiency and transparency.View case study
Supply PilotSupply Pilot bridges the gap in the client feedback loop, giving retailers insight into what their customers really think. Our dedicated team built their Modio platform.View case study
NOCNWith a growing backlog of IT needs, the NOCN Group needed a full-time team to improve their operational efficiency using web based and mobile solutions.View case studyABOUT US
Founded in 2007 as a dedicated IT consultancy, Evolved Ideas has grown into a team of over 100 professionals, with a head office in Leicester and development hubs in Eastern Europe and Spain.
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OUR EXPERTISE
Over 17 years building custom software and mobile applications, and leveraging AI and ML to build the software you'll need next.
LOCAL INSIGHT
Leicester's position as a regional hub for insurance, retail logistics, and professional services means many organisations here are running legacy systems that have grown complex over decades. Our head office is in Leicester, so we understand the local business environment and the pressure IT directors face to modernise while keeping operations running. Modernising legacy software opens up your team to hire developers from a broader talent pool and reduces the cost of maintaining systems that are expensive to run and fragile to change.
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OUR PROVEN PROCESS
Our process has guided startups, scaleups and enterprises from concept to reality, and continues after launch.
A free 30-minute consultation followed by a stakeholder workshop, where we listen to your challenges, validate assumptions and build an outside-in view of your situation.
We scope the project, define milestones and deliverables, then research your market, wireframe the UX and prototype the UI so the direction is agreed before a line of code.
We assemble your dedicated team, establish reporting and work in iterative Scrum sprints, delivering a working MVP or proof of concept you can test with real users.
We ship, sign off, and keep your product current through our support service or a permanent extended team as your business evolves.
OUR SOLUTIONS
Technology is more than just code — it's a tool for solving real business challenges. Whichever route fits your stage, the same team delivers it.
With your long-term goals in mind, we help you choose the technology you need and develop a tech roadmap based on industry trends, emerging tech and your business requirements.
We have years of experience building proof of concepts and MVPs. We will take you from testing viability to building an MVP to validate your hypotheses.
Tier 1 customer support, Tier 2 technical support and Tier 3 development support for applications and legacy software, delivered by our engineering teams.
If you need to build an IT team from zero or need staff augmentation, we can build the team you need — developers, designers, analysts and even fractional CTOs.
We use phased migration strategies, running old and new systems in parallel during transition periods. Data is synchronised between systems, and we test cutover procedures exhaustively before go-live. Rollback plans are documented and rehearsed. For business-critical systems, we often migrate by functional area rather than all at once, so parts of the business stay live throughout.
It depends on system size, complexity, and how many teams can work on it. A medium-sized monolith usually takes 6-12 months in phases. We prefer to break it into smaller, measurable chunks (e.g., extract one service per sprint) so you see progress and can adjust priorities as business needs change.
Data mapping, validation, and reconciliation are core to every migration plan. We build test migrations first in a staging environment, verify record counts and checksums, and run data quality reports before any production cutover. We also maintain read-only access to the old system for a period post-migration so you can verify nothing was lost.
Not necessarily. We recommend modern, widely-supported stacks (e.g., Node.js, Python, Java Spring, Go) so your developers can find documentation and community support easily. If your team has a preference or existing expertise, we work with that. The goal is a system your engineers feel confident maintaining long-term.
That's common. We reverse-engineer those integrations, document their behaviour, and replicate them in the new system or find modern alternatives. If the integration is with a third-party system that no longer exists, we work with your team to find a suitable replacement or retire that feature if it's no longer needed.
We need your IT Director or senior architect to review design decisions and sign off on critical milestones. Operations staff should test cutover procedures. We don't expect your team to write code, but their knowledge of the business logic and operational constraints is invaluable and saves time.
NEXT STEPS…
Book a free 30-minute discovery call with our team — we'll understand your objectives and advise how bespoke software, MVP development, or an extended team can help your business.
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