Modernization and Scalability Enhancement for Legacy SaaS Platform

An established digital product with over 8 years in the market is struggling with aging legacy code, increasing maintenance costs, and prolonged development cycles. The platform's scalability is limited, hindering expansion into new markets and delaying delivery of new features. Security vulnerabilities and performance issues further exacerbate operational risks, making timely updates and improvements difficult.

A mid-sized enterprise offering a mature SaaS product facing technical debt, aging infrastructure, and scalability challenges, aiming to improve maintenance, reduce time-to-market, and expand into new markets.

• Reduce time-to-market for new features by at least 87%
• Significantly decrease ongoing maintenance costs by approximately 70%
• Lower technical debt in core components by around 35% annually
• Enhance platform scalability to support expansion into new markets
• Fix critical bugs, security issues, and performance bottlenecks early in the process
• Enable flexible investment into technical debt reduction versus feature delivery

• Incremental refactoring of legacy codebase into modular, manageable chunks
• Parallel development of new features alongside platform modernization
• Implementation of automated CI/CD pipelines for efficient development cycles
• Prioritization of critical security patches and performance improvements
• Support for flexible deployment and scaling strategies to accommodate market growth
• Comprehensive monitoring and alerting for system health and security

• Monitoring and performance analysis tools (e.g., DataDog, New Relic)
• Security and vulnerability scanning services
• CI/CD tools for automated deployment pipelines
• Notification and alert systems

• Support for platform scalability to handle increased user load
• System uptime and availability targets aligning with industry standards
• Enhanced security protocols to mitigate vulnerabilities
• Decreased development and release cycle time by at least 87%
• Maintainability and modularity to allow ongoing incremental updates

Successful execution of this project is expected to reduce the release cycle time by approximately 87%, lower operational and maintenance costs by 70%, and decrease technical debt in core system components by about 35% annually. These improvements will enhance platform scalability, security, and stability, enabling rapid deployment of new features and supporting expansion into new markets, thereby delivering increased value to end users and strengthening market position.