FAQs

Clear Dynamics is a software application modernisation specialist, building on decades of R&D and experience in the enterprise software space. We have cloned and modernised many different applications into the cloud, and across most industries and many different technologies.

Using our technology we do this in a repeatable and automated way. In fact, up to 98% of our application modernisation process today is automated. Our platform aieos is what powers our ability to automate the clone process, regardless of your data sources and technology flavour of your legacy application.

aieos:

Underpins our ability to find, map, interrogate, and import your data in a way that leaves no data behind

Using automation, rebuilds your application from your data, creating every layer of the application stack afresh

Runs your modernised cloud application allowing for continuous uplift and change

Maintains an evergreen modern application and ensures security is by design and not as an afterthought.

The aieos platform is our technology that we’ve built over the past 12 years and following decades of market research and R&D. aieos simplifies and speeds up the application development lifecycle.

Clone2Cloud is our proven approach to modernise legacy applications. Using the aieos platform, we clone old applications and rebuild them into a modern tech stack.

aieos is the vehicle. Clone2Cloud is the destination. The end result? Your application afresh, with all of your data, in the cloud, ready to quickly and iteratively evolve.

Clear Dynamics' applications are built on a Microsoft tech stack (SQL Server, .Net, etc.). For the front end we use the REACT framework and Javascript.

Your cloned application is deployed using Kubernetes containers. However, the subscription with Clear Dynamics includes all of the underlying infrastructure plus hosting. You can be assured that your new application is always evergreen with up-to-date technology.

The Clear Dynamics Cloud is hosted on Azure in a region of your choice. Meeting data residency and compliance requirements are non-negotiables for our customers, as well as security, high-capacity and availability.

We understand that some of our customers may have different, more stringent requirements when it comes to cloud environments. For this reason, we have some flexibility such as deploying to private clouds.

We know that some older technologies hold more application intelligence in code than in the datastores. We have code ingestion tools that can discover legacy application code, such as COBOL, Pascal, Basic, VB, etc. We also extract intelligence from fixed-width datastores common to that era. Our weighted approach provides the ability to modernise applications out to 30 to 40 years old.

Our library of data source automated ingestors covers legacy database types such as MySQL Server, Oracle and Access and datadictionaries.

We can ingest any relational database such as SQL Server and Oracle, as well as document databases like MongoDB. We can also work from custom databases, MS Access or even MS Excel. We continue to add to our library of data sources for automated ingestion.

We ingest your data "warts and all" in its current structure initially (ELT not ETL). Only then, we look at what it would take to transform to a target state and we can absorb a lot of minor differences within our ingestion process. Sometimes we need to add some additional transformation logic between target and source but rarely do we find data that is so bad that we need to perform pre-load cleansing.

Clear Dynamics has over 60 different connectors including Stripe, Paypal, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Outlook, AWS messaging Netsuite, GreenID, Illion, Bankstatements, CoreLogic, Cuscal, Experian, MogoPlus, Sumo Logic, and more.

The first iterative step is getting you to early new working software. This is your cloned legacy application with your data already migrated. This is your baseline that we run in our Cloud.

From here, you will want to continue to modernise your baseline cloned application. Workflows will be consolidated and enhanced. The interface will want to be evolved. You will continue the data transformation process as your understanding of your business needs deepens. aieos has this ability to make changes - be it decisioning rules or an api schema - across all layers of the stack saving days and weeks, not to mention mobilising a team.

This approach:

Reduces the gaps between requirements and working software (reducing tech debt)

Reduces the cost of change as changes are small and fast

Reduces risk of delivering value as changes can be targeted and responsive

Is a vastly faster approach to modernisation.

Small, fast iterations of change will beat large big-bang delivery any day. We continue to run your system whilst you make these incremental changes, benefiting from the technology’s capability to quickly respond and automate continuous uplift to your application.

You can transition away from Clear Dynamics whenever you want to. We work with you on the plan to do so. Your modernised application can continue to be developed upon using the coding language of your choice.

• We work with you to understand your plans and timeframes to put together a low risk transition approach
• Once your application has been transitioned off the Clear Dynamics Cloud, you will be provided with the source code.
• You can continue to develop upon the application using the coding language of your choice.