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You're Migrating a Legacy App to the Cloud... Which Path Do You Take?

Swanagan Ray

Swanagan Ray

You're Migrating a Legacy App to the Cloud... Which Path Do You Take?
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A partner came to us with a simple request: move their client's legacy XPA application to the cloud.

We told them there was a better option.

A "lift-and-shift" migration is tempting.

Take the app off the on-prem server, drop it onto a cloud VM, call it a day. Simple.

But you just relocated the problem.

The UI is still 20 years old. You still can't really pull it up on a phone or a browser.

You're eating the disruption of a migration no matter what. So why not use that same window to build something genuinely better?

We like to pitch a SmartUX modernization instead of a simple lift-and-shift now.

With our new AI-powered code generator, we take that same legacy XPA app and automatically rebuild the front end as a modern, responsive web application.

Not as a separate multi-year initiative. During the migration itself.

The before and after tells the story: a client-server app locked to a local machine becomes a sleek, modern web app you can access from any browser, on any device, anywhere.

Same migration window. Completely different outcome.

If you're a Magic partner or customer staring down a cloud migration for your XPA applications, let's talk!

Swanagan Ray

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Swanagan Ray

Director of Marketing, Magic Software USA

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