Continuous Innovation for Legacy Platforms

Many critical systems still run on so-called “legacy” platforms like Solaris/SPARC, OpenVMS, Tru64/Digital/OSF1 UNIX, IBM p/Series or z/Series, or HP-UX. Although these platforms are proven and reliable, they’re mostly no longer supported, and therefore introduce a significant level of risk to your business operations!

The business environment has changed too – leadership demands agility, faster delivery cycles, and stronger compliance. This often leads to pressure to rewrite or replace what already works.

At IDEA, we believe there’s a better way: Continuous Innovation without Disruption.

Why Replace What Works?

Rebuilding mature systems comes with high risk:

• Retraining entire teams;
• Reintegration of core services;
• Months or years before ROI;
• Business interruption risk.

Instead, we help you bring modern CI/CD and DevOps workflows to your existing applications, as they are—no rewrites, no drama.

Extend the Life of Your Investment

As a GitLab Select Partner with strong background in legacy systems support and innovation practices, we excel at enabling organisations to:

• Integrate legacy systems into modern CI/CD pipelines;
• Maintain business-critical software within today’s DevSecOps practices;
• Align delivery speed with compliance and traceability goals.

Your Legacy, Reimagined

Our approach helps you:

• ✅ Protect existing investment
• ✅ Reduce operational risk
• ✅ Enable continuous innovation
• ✅ Deliver value faster—on platforms you already trust

You don’t have to choose between innovation and stability. With the right partner, you can have both.

Let’s Talk

We help teams move forward—securely, incrementally, and without disruption.

Contact us to learn how we can support your modernisation goals through continuous innovation.

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