Modernisation

Application modernisation services for cloud-native systems

Modernisation

Put cloud at the centre of continuous innovation.

How we help

Modern platforms, built to scale and adapt

Cloud modernisation isn’t just about technology upgrades, it’s about enabling your business to move faster, scale smarter, and run more efficiently.

We help you refactor, replatform and re-architect systems for performance, flexibility, and cost optimisation. Whether you’re evolving legacy platforms or embracing cloud-native architectures, we build for long-term agility and resilience.

Why it works

Ongoing modernisation brings business value

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Refactor to cloud-native

Unlock the full value of the cloud with architectures designed for scale, speed and stability. Cloud-native refactoring improves performance, agility and cost efficiency – all while strengthening your security posture and enabling seamless growth.

Containerise for control

Run faster, scale smarter and recover quicker. Deliver consistent environments, streamline management, and accelerate development through strategic containerisation that give your team the tools to move forward with confidence.

Automate testing

Accelerate delivery without compromising quality. Automated testing enables faster, more reliable release cycles, with real-time insights and tighter CI/CD integration that drives better user experiences and system reliance.

Leverage open-source technologies

Stay flexible and future-ready with open, community-driven tools. Open-source solutions reduce licensing costs, speed up innovations and support safe experimentation – all while maintaining transparency, compliance and interoperability.

Benefits

The long-term value of cloud modernisation

Operational resilience

Improve system stability and recoverability with robust architectures and fault-tolerant design.

Business agility

Enable faster deployments, smoother iterations, and real-time scaling aligned to business priorities.

Cost efficiency

Reduce overhead with lightweight architectures and optimised infrastructure usage.

Strategic advantage

Accelerate innovation cycles and stay competitive with platforms designed for what’s next.

Our Approach

Modernisation built on proven tools and practices

Modernise applications to be faster, leaner and easier to evolve. Refactoring, re-architecting and decomposing monoliths into modular, cloud-ready components improves performance, reduces technical debt and creates space for future innovation.

Improve portability, resilience and deployment velocity by moving to container-based platforms. Whether using Kubernetes or managed container services, modernisation helps teams scale more predictably and deliver updates with less friction.

Replace slow, manual processes with automated build, test and release pipelines. Streamlined CI/CD enables more frequent, reliable deployments, reduces delivery risk and strengthens system stability.

Identify inefficiencies, rationalise infrastructure and right-size workloads to run more efficiently. Modernisation improves speed and stability while reducing unnecessary spend through smarter architectures and resource usage.

Evolve data stores, modernise integration layers and improve interoperability across systems. From managed data services to event-driven design, this level of modernisation enables better insights, richer experiences and AI-readiness.

Strengthen the security posture of legacy platforms with updated controls, improved governance and automated policy enforcement. Modernisation reduces risk and ensures compliance without slowing down delivery.

Shift to modern runtimes, container platforms, serverless architectures and managed application services designed for performance, reliability and flexibility.

Move from brittle, point-to-point communication to scalable APIs, event-driven patterns and secure hybrid connectivity that simplify change and reduce downtime.

Adopt cloud-ready databases, managed data platforms and modern storage patterns that improve performance, support analytics and enable AI workloads.

Use automated pipelines, infrastructure-as-code and environment orchestration to improve speed, consistency and release quality across teams.

Introduce modern logging, metrics, tracing and intelligent alerting to detect issues early, optimise performance and maintain reliable user experiences.

Embed continuous security controls, identity modernisation and compliance frameworks that protect systems as they evolve.

Adopt caching, autoscaling, load balancing, chaos testing and fault-tolerant design principles to improve uptime, reduce latency and strengthen recovery.

Related Specialisms

Learn more about our additional cloud services

Migrate and build

End-to-end managed migrations ensure a smooth and scalable transition to the cloud, all fast-tracked by our acceleration frameworks.

Manage

Our experts take the hassle out of managing your cloud infrastructure with multi-tenant or SRE managed services.

See it in action

Turn vision into value

Case Studies

Empowering Cell C’s cloud journey with BBD’s AWS expertise

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Case Studies

Implementing a cloud-native solution for a Forex trade platform

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Case Studies

Sustaining a telecom giant through Cloud Managed Services

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Related Expertise

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Software development

Transform your digital portfolio with expert engineering capabilities that ensure you drive continuous technological excellence and outpace your competitors.

Data engineering

Make sense of your data for additional business value with data architecture, engineering and analytics, including advanced analytics like machine learning and artificial intelligence services.

User Experience and Product Design

Improve digital experiences for customers with meaningful UX and UI that is based on extensive user research, proven human-centric design principles and your intended customer experience.

Packed Testing

Test smarter, move faster, and reduce risk with quality engineered into every stage of delivery. From strategy to automation, our packaged testing services improve stability, increase coverage, and help you release with confidence.

GET IN TOUCH

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Tony van der Linden

Head of Cloud Services

Whether you’re refactoring, replatforming or redesigning, we’ll help you modernise with confidence, improve performance and boost agility.