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Notes on keeping critical software alive: regulation, resilience, maintenance and where AI actually helps.
Keeping Critical Systems Alive: A Proactive Maintenance Playbook
Some software can fail on a Friday night and wait until Monday. Critical systems cannot. When an ERP, a billing engine or an order platform goes down, the business stops…
Legacy System Maintenance: A Practical Guide for Mid-size Companies
Most mid-size companies depend on at least one system that is quietly indispensable and quietly ageing: an ERP, an order portal, a billing engine, a scheduling tool. It works, the…
Maintain or Rewrite? How to Decide What to Do With an Aging System
"Should we just rebuild it?" is one of the most expensive questions a company can answer wrongly. Rewrites are seductive — a clean slate, modern tools, no legacy baggage —…
The True Cost of Unmaintained Software
Doing nothing feels free. A system that still works does not send invoices, so the cost of leaving it unmaintained stays invisible — until it isn't. Here is what that…
How to Modernize a Legacy System Without Downtime
The fear that stops most modernization projects is downtime. If a system is critical, you cannot simply switch it off for a weekend and hope the replacement works on Monday.…
Outsourcing System Maintenance in Belgium & the Netherlands
For many mid-size companies in Belgium and the Netherlands, maintaining critical software in-house is harder every year. Senior engineers are scarce and expensive, the people who know the legacy systems…
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