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Why an Application Assessment

Legacy software costs time, money, and customer trust. An Application Assessment uncovers vulnerabilities and provides a clear path toward a future-proof application.

Your benefits at a glance:

Risk Mitigation: Full transparency on vulnerabilities, cloud blockers, and risks — clearly prioritized.
Guaranteed investment protection: Create a solid decision-making framework for modernization versus new development.
Cloud Roadmap: Actionable recommendations to maximize modernization success and cost benefits.
Transition Readiness: Objective risk assessment for vendor switches, team onboarding, or M&A.

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In just a few days, you'll know exactly:

The Keep, Modernize or Rebuild Decision Matrix

Blindly investing in outdated tech costs time and money — but so does rushing to replace functional systems. With our 360° Application Assessment, we bring full visibility to your software “black box.”

KEEP

If the analysis confirms a secure and modern architecture, the goal is optimization, not replacement. We outline how to run your system cost-effectively while keeping a seamless path to the cloud.

MODERNIZE

If your system has technical debt but valuable business logic, targeted modernization offers the best ROI. We create a prioritized roadmap for refactoring, decoupling, and cloud-native migration — keeping ongoing operations fully intact.

REBUILD

When technical debt or outdated structures block innovation for good, a clean rebuild beats years of patching. We deliver an objective assessment and a concrete blueprint for your new, scalable architecture.

Application Assessment

From initial analysis to reliable operations

Our independent Application Assessment makes risks visible – from architectural flaws and performance bottlenecks to hidden technical debt.

Facts over Gut Feeling

Improve architecture, code quality, and UX - for more efficiency and maintainability.

Ensure Future Viability

Meet your application's future demands in terms of requirements, technologies, and scalability.

Reduce IT Costs

Lower maintenance costs and failure expenses through stable, modern code.

Identify Risks and Weaknesses

Detect security gaps, performance issues, and UX flaws in time.

Gain Competitive Edge

Offer an outstanding user experience and set yourself apart with modern software in the market.

Identify AI potential

Recognize where AI-powered features create real added value—from automation and intelligent recommendations to more efficient processes.

Clarity for Your Software

Choose your Assessment focus

Every software project faces unique challenges at different stages — whether ahead of a major release, a planned modernization, or team transitions. We evaluate your application right where action is needed most: thoroughly, independently, and grounded in real-world practice.

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We evaluate whether your legacy application is ready for the cloud. We focus on common cloud blockers such as statefulness, poor scaling behavior, local file persistence, and inefficient connection management. As a result, you receive clear, practical modernization recommendations for your path to the cloud.

We identify security risks in your software — ideal ahead of customer rollouts, following audit findings, or during dev team transitions. By targeted analysis of source code, third-party dependencies, and configurations, we catch known vulnerability patterns and complement the assessment with an adversarial pass from an attacker’s perspective.

We analyze the handover risk of your software — whether for a vendor switch, onboarding a second dev team, or during M&A due diligence. We thoroughly inspect code quality, test coverage, documentation, and architecture to ensure a seamless transition.

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Do you know where your application stands

Application Assessment

With a software audit, identify challenges, leverage potentials - find the right strategy for modernizing your software:

Technical analysis & uncovering technical debts
Management report to assess overall potential
Detailed catalog of measures with concrete recommendations

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Free IT Consulting

Take the opportunity to reflect on your current IT situation with our experts - unbiased and with real added value.

Individual assessment of your IT and digital strategy
Analysis of challenges and areas for action – focused on your business goals
Recommendations on architecture, processes, and technologies
Impulses for quick wins and long-term roadmaps

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SmartGolfa is a web and mobile platform that allows users to play golf at their own pace. Users can buy golf packages that can be used throughout a network of courses in Sweden, according to their schedule. Teevolution started SmartGolfa in 2009. Since its launch, the platform has experienced continuous growth. The idea for SmartGolfa was born from the simple concept of making golf more digitally accessible and opening the market to a new audience, by keeping costs down. The application allows users to book start times on 60+ golf courses and buy greens fees. Users also have the option to be rewarded with free greens fees by recruiting friends. Users log in with their phones to purchase packages that can be used throughout the golfing season. SmartGolfa is a web and mobile platform that allows users to play golf at their own pace. Users can buy golf packages that can be used throughout a network of courses in Sweden, according to their schedule. Teevolution started SmartGolfa in 2009. Since its launch, the platform has experienced continuous growth. The idea for SmartGolfa was born from the simple concept of making golf more digitally accessible and opening the market to a new audience, by keeping costs down. The application allows users to book start times on 60+ golf courses and buy greens fees. Users also have the option to be rewarded with free greens fees by recruiting friends. Users log in with their phones to purchase packages that can be used throughout the golfing season.

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AWS DevOps automates release management

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Evolving online games with AWS Machine Learning

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Simple and fail-safe: Webshop in the Amazon Cloud

Simple and fail-safe: Webshop in the Amazon Cloud.

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Customized application developed for customer requests in three weeks

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Software Modernization

Modernize legacy applications and move them to the cloud.

Leverage modern apps

UI-Design & UX

User-centered design for optimal user experience.

Optimize user experience

Software Quality Assurance

Comprehensive quality assurance for reliable software.

Ensure software quality

Software Operations & Maintenance

Continuous operation, maintenance and monitoring of your applications.

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IT Strategy & Consulting

Develop cloud strategies, optimize IT architectures.

Leverage IT consulting

Team as a Service

Scalable development teams – flexible and needs-based.

Avoid resource bottlenecks

Application Assessment

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The Application Assessment is a data-driven, independent quality and architecture analysis for proprietary, business-critical software applications. It is designed for enterprise and mid-market companies facing strategic decisions — such as cloud migration, upcoming audits, performance issues, or steadily rising maintenance and development costs.

Absolutely. Security and confidentiality are our highest priorities.

We operate strictly under non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).

For the analysis, we only require read-only access to your repositories.

No data or code contents are ever shared with public cloud services or unsecured third parties.

Our assessment is technology-agnostic. We analyze classic monoliths as well as modern microservice architectures across all common programming languages (e.g., Java, C#/.NET, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, and more). We evaluate cloud readiness for all major hyperscalers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud) as well as on-premises and hybrid environments.

A tool only provides raw metrics and error messages, but zero context. We combine automated analysis with the years of hands-on experience of our Senior Software Architects. We evaluate not just syntax, but overall architecture, interfaces (e.g., to SAP or legacy systems), business risks, and alignment with your strategic goals.

Application Assessment

Why an Application Assessment

The Keep, Modernize or Rebuild Decision Matrix

KEEP

MODERNIZE

REBUILD

From initial analysis to reliable operations

Facts over Gut Feeling

Ensure Future Viability

Reduce IT Costs

Identify Risks and Weaknesses

Gain Competitive Edge

Identify AI potential

Choose your Assessment focus

Cloud Readiness Assessment

Security Assessment

Transition Readiness Assessment

Do you know where your application stands

Application Assessment

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