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Application Migration Services | Legacy Modernization, Cloud Migration, Application Transformation

Move applications to modern environments with AppStudio's migration expertise, minimizing disruption while improving performance, scalability, and long-term maintainability.

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Why Enterprises Choose AppStudio for Application Migration

Migrate Without the Outage

We move applications in phases with a rollback at every step, so the business keeps running instead of betting everything on one big-bang cutover.

The Right Path per App

Each application gets the strategy it deserves, rehost, replatform, or refactor, chosen on cost, risk, and how much value the move actually unlocks, not a blanket approach.

Modernised, Not Just Moved

Migration is a chance to shed technical debt. We right-size, containerise, and tidy dependencies as we go, so you land on something better to run rather than just somewhere new.

Proven Before Cutover

Every migration is tested against real data and load, with parallel runs and reconciliation, before we ever flip production over.

Services

What Our Application Migration Services Cover

Migration Assessment & Planning

Discovery of every application, dependency, data store, and integration.
A rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, or retain call per application.
Wave plan with move groups, cutover windows, and rollback criteria.

Rehost (Lift-and-Shift)

Server replication via AWS Application Migration Service or Azure Migrate.
IP, DNS, and load balancer mappings rebuilt in the target network.
Test launches and a cutover runbook before source servers retire.

Replatform

Self-managed databases moved to Amazon RDS, Azure SQL, or Cloud SQL.
Applications packaged into containers on EKS, AKS, or GKE.
Session state, file storage, and secrets moved to managed services.

Refactor & Re-Architect

Monoliths split into services along domain lines using the strangler pattern.
Event-driven integration through SQS, Azure Service Bus, or Kafka.
Stateless services with autoscaling, health checks, and an API gateway.

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Cloud Migration

Landing zones in Terraform: accounts, VPCs or VNets, and guardrail policies.
Single sign-on via Entra ID or IAM Identity Center with least-privilege roles.
Workloads placed in Canadian regions where data residency requires it.

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Database & Data Migration

Oracle and SQL Server converted to PostgreSQL, stored procedures included.
Change data capture with AWS DMS or Debezium for short cutovers.
Row counts and checksums reconciled between source and target tables.

Application Modernisation

Java, .NET Framework, and PHP runtimes upgraded to supported LTS releases.
CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, and OpenTelemetry tracing added during the move.
Deeper code rework scoped through our software modernization services.

Post-Migration Optimisation & Support

Instances rightsized and savings plans applied from real usage data.
Dashboards and alerts in Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog, with runbooks.
Source environment decommissioned and old licences retired once stable.

Where Our Migration Work Is Different

Business Priorities

Industry Gaps

One risky big-bang cutover

Lift-and-shift everything the same

The same mess on new hardware

Hope the numbers match after

Long maintenance windows

Residency discovered late

Handed over and gone

Our Proven Advantage

Waves with rollback at every step

Rehost, replatform, or refactor by fit

Cleaned up and right-sized as we move

Reconciliation and parallel runs first

Replication and staged cutover

Data location weighed per workload

Optimisation and support built in

Global Standards. Built-In Trust.

We operate with the highest levels of security, privacy, and quality, backed by globally recognized certifications. Our standards are built to meet enterprise and regulatory requirements across industries.

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Recognized Among Leading Migration Partners

Independent review platforms and analysts consistently rank AppStudio for the things clients care about most: reliability you can plan around, governance you can prove, and operations that scale as you do.

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The Stack Behind Our Migrations

We migrate across the platforms and engines your applications actually run on, using proven tooling to move, modernise, and operate them.

AWS

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

OpenShift

Terraform

Ansible

Packer

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Oracle

Redis

Java

.NET

Node.js

Python

PHP

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

How We Plan and Run Your Migration

A migration succeeds or fails before the first workload moves, in the assessment. At AppStudio we map dependencies and risks first, then move in waves you can reverse.

Each wave runs through the five stages here, whether it is a straight rehost or a legacy modernization that reworks code on the way.

We catalogue every application with its dependencies, data stores, integrations, and owners, using discovery tooling plus interviews. Each one leaves with a risk score, a target platform, and a recommended migration path.

We group applications into waves by dependency, so tightly coupled systems move together. Low-risk workloads go first to prove the landing zone, and every wave gets a cutover window, an owner, and rollback criteria.

We build the target environment and replicate data while the source stays live. Functional, performance, and integration tests run on production-sized data, and source and target are reconciled before a cutover is booked.

In the agreed window we freeze writes, run the final sync, and switch DNS or traffic, with the rollback rehearsed beforehand. Smoke tests, data checks, and live monitoring confirm the application is healthy before sign-off.

Once traffic settles we tune instance sizes, storage tiers, and reserved capacity against actual load. Monitoring, alerts, and runbooks then move into a defined support model, run by your team or ours.

Why Clients Stay With Us

App Migration Services in Numbers

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of migrations run with tested rollback and data reconciliation before cutover

average infrastructure cost reduction after post-migration optimisation

availability sustained across the migrated workloads we operate

What Our Clients Say About Working With Us

Vikram Nair

CTO, Logistics & Supply Chain, Calgary, AB, Canada

“AppStudio took over our environment end to end, standardized our monitoring, and automated the routine operations that used to eat our team's day. Incident resolution is faster, downtime dropped noticeably, and their governance is transparent and always on-SLA.”

Claire Bélanger

CIO, Financial Services, Toronto, ON, Canada

“The improvements showed up within weeks. AppStudio cut our incident counts, lifted SLA adherence, and gave us real-time visibility across the entire estate for the first time. Their governance and compliance-first approach makes them feel like a strategic partner.”

Sean O'Brien

VP of Infrastructure, Healthcare, Ottawa, ON, Canada

“AppStudio moved us to a fully managed model without a single hiccup on our critical systems. Between proactive monitoring, HIPAA-aligned processes, and a genuine 24/7 service desk, confidence in IT grew right across the organization.”

Divya Menon

Head of IT Operations, Retail, Montreal, QC, Canada

“Support is now consistent across every site, and AppStudio tied our metrics directly to business goals. They plugged straight into our tooling and scaled coverage through seasonal peaks, which kept operations steady when it mattered most.”

Pierre Gauthier

Director of Technology, SaaS, Vancouver, BC, Canada

“With AppStudio keeping our platform stable and scalable, our own engineers got to focus on building instead of firefighting. Their disciplined delivery and the uptime they hold meant our customers never felt a thing.”

Nora Haddad

Director of IT, Manufacturing, Hamilton, ON, Canada

“From proactive monitoring to fast response, our plant and office systems stay secure and available around the clock. Downtime is down more than 40% since we signed on, and our compliance posture is far stronger.”

Arjun Sethi

Director of Infrastructure, Insurance, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

“Bringing AppStudio on board genuinely changed how we operate. We finally have the stability and room to scale we needed, and our response times improved by roughly 35% with noticeably better uptime.”

Renée Cloutier

Senior IT Manager, Energy & Utilities, Edmonton, AB, Canada

“They keep our infrastructure secure, efficient, and compliant. Operational risk is lower, and availability is up across every department, exactly what round-the-clock operations demand.”

Success Stories

Skills Compétences Canada digital platform

Empowering Future Talent in Trades and Technology

Commissioned by Skills Compétences Canada, we built a national bilingual platform with native apps, a secure CMS, and Canadian cloud infrastructure to promote trades and technology careers at scale.

Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative surveillance platform

Digitizing Wildlife Surveillance for National Resilience

For the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative, we replaced siloed tools with a cloud-native platform that unifies field reports, lab diagnostics, and cross-province analytics in real time.

Seattle Aquarium interactive digital experience

Interactive Learning Through Digital Experience

We unified kiosks, ticketing, and mobile into one cloud-native platform for Seattle Aquarium, raising visitor engagement and streamlining operations across every touchpoint.

Our Portfolio

Mindset

Mindset is the Ultimate Source for Motivation, Self-development and Wisdom. With Mindset, you can play the world’s best motivational, inspirational and educational audios for free.

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Jeddah Season

As part of the vision 2030, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has established a partnership with Zazz to modernize their nation wide mobile apps.

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Skills Competences
Canada Ontario

Built for the government of Ontario, to champion and stimulate the development of world-class technological and employability skills in Ontario youth.

Roundup

Get cooking with The Roundup™, the definitive guide to buying, cooking & enjoying North American beef! This app has information on beef cuts, recipes, cooking & cuts videos to help you buy the proper cut and cook it confidently.

ECAO

The app serves as a one-stop solution for Ontario’s electrical contractor community to organize and manage events, and conferences, talk to other members and share updates.

Ideal Protein

The Ideal Protein App is the digital pocket companion to the Ideal Protein Protocol. This personalized Protocol assistant is designed to help people achieve their weight loss goals and support a new, healthy lifestyle through three prioprietary phases: Weight Loss, Stabilization, and Maintenance.

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WSPS

Designed & Developed to save lives, and help prevent the spread of COVID 19, by providing the most reliable and up to date information needed by Employers across Canada.

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Migrations Shaped to Each Industry's Demands

A live migration is riskiest where downtime and data rules are strictest. We sequence each move to protect uptime, data residency, and the business running on top of it.

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Migrate EHR and clinical apps with zero data loss.
HIPAA- and PHIPA-aligned migration and validation.
Rehearsed cutovers that avoid disrupting care.

Pharmaceuticals & MedTech

Migrate LIMS and trial platforms under GxP controls.
Validated migration with full audit trails.
Data integrity preserved through every move.

Retail & Consumer Commerce

Migrate POS, ERP, and e-commerce with minimal downtime.
PCI-aligned migration of payment systems.
Cutovers scheduled around peak trading.

Government & Public Sector

Migrate legacy systems to modern, secure platforms.
CIS- and NIST-aligned migration and controls.
Data residency preserved through the move.

Logistics, Supply Chain & Transportation

Migrate WMS, TMS, and tracking with no lost data.
Integrations re-established after cutover.
Rehearsed moves for time-critical operations.

Telecom & Connectivity

Migrate OSS, BSS, and billing at carrier scale.
Phased cutovers with rollback plans.
Data integrity across high-volume systems.

Education & eLearning

Migrate SIS and LMS with records intact.
Identity and access preserved through the move.
Cutovers scheduled around the academic calendar.

Travel, Hospitality & Aviation

Migrate booking, PMS, and loyalty systems.
PCI-aligned migration of payment data.
Rehearsed cutovers for always-on operations.

High-Tech, SaaS & Software Product Companies

Migrate monoliths and legacy apps to the cloud.
Rehost, replatform, or refactor per workload.
Zero-downtime cutovers for live products.

Real Estate & PropTech

Migrate property, listing, and portal systems.
Document and record migration with integrity.
Integrations re-established after the move.

Energy, Oil & Gas

Migrate operational and reporting systems safely.
Risk-managed cutovers for critical assets.
Data integrity across IT and OT.

Manufacturing & Industrial

Migrate ERP, MES, and plant systems.
Phased moves that protect production uptime.
Integrations preserved across the estate.

Media & Entertainment

Migrate content, asset, and delivery platforms.
Large media libraries moved without loss.
Cutovers scheduled around release windows.

Legal Services & Law Firms

Migrate document and case-management systems.
Confidential data migrated with layered access.
Records preserved for eDiscovery and audit.

Nonprofit Organizations

Migrate donor, member, and finance systems.
Right-sized migration with minimal disruption.
Data preserved through a careful cutover.

Accounting & Financial Services

Migrate core financial systems with data intact.
SOC 2- and PCI-aligned migration controls.
Rehearsed cutovers scheduled around close cycles.

Move Off Legacy Without Betting the Business on It

Aging applications rarely fail loudly; they just get slower, riskier, and more expensive to keep alive. A deliberate migration turns that liability into a modern platform your team can build on again.

It works hand in hand with our cloud application development, hybrid cloud services, software modernization, and IT managed services.

Point us at the applications you need to move, and we will map the dependencies, the risks, and a wave plan around them.

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Frequently Asked Questions

It runs from assessment through to a stable new environment: inventorying applications, dependencies, and data, choosing a strategy for each, moving in waves with parallel runs and reconciliation, cutting over with a rollback ready, and then optimising and supporting what has moved. The upfront assessment is where most of the risk is removed, so we never skip it.

On cost, risk, and payoff. Rehosting (lift-and-shift) is fastest and lowest-risk when you need out of a data centre quickly. Replatforming makes targeted changes to use managed services without a rewrite. Refactoring is for applications where re-architecting genuinely unlocks scale or speed. We assess each application and recommend the option that fits, rather than forcing one approach across the estate.

Usually, yes. We use replication, parallel running, and staged cutovers so most of the move happens while the current system stays live, and the final switch is short. The exact downtime depends on data volume and how the application handles state, which we size during the assessment.

Data is migrated with integrity checks, and we reconcile source and target before cutover, so the numbers are proven to match rather than assumed. Where the risk is high we run the old and new systems in parallel and compare, and we keep a rollback path until the new environment is confirmed.

AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, or across them, as well as on-premises to cloud and between clouds. We set up the landing zone, networking, and identity properly first, and weigh data residency and compliance for each workload rather than assuming everything can go anywhere.

Yes. We handle same-engine moves and engine changes, such as Oracle or SQL Server to PostgreSQL, migrating schema and data with validation and, where needed, replication for minimal-downtime cutover. Engine changes are scoped carefully because they touch application code, not just the data.

Whichever fits your goals. A pure move is faster and lower-risk; modernising along the way, containerising, updating runtimes, adding CI/CD and observability, costs more effort but leaves you with something better to run. We often rehost first for speed, then modernise in a second phase once you are off the old platform.

We migrate in waves rather than all at once, so only a small, controlled slice is in motion at any time, and each wave has a rollback. The business keeps running on the current environment until each piece is proven on the new one.

We plan for it. Every wave has defined rollback points and success criteria agreed in advance, so if a cutover does not meet them we roll back to the known-good state rather than pushing through. That is why we insist on tested rollback before any production switch.

Yes, and it is where a lot of the value is. Once workloads are settled we right-size and tune cost, set up monitoring and a clear run model, and can operate the environment on an ongoing basis, so the migration ends in something well-run rather than handed over and forgotten.

A single application can move in weeks; a large estate runs on a wave plan over months, sequenced so value arrives along the way rather than at one distant finish. The assessment gives you a realistic, wave-by-wave timeline before you commit.

Book a consultation and we will review the applications you want to move, map their dependencies and risks, and lay out a strategy per application with a wave plan, rollback points, and a realistic timeline.

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