The software works.
The problem is the team that built it has gone, the relationship no longer works, or nobody wants to make the next change because they do not understand the code.
You do not necessarily need a rebuild.
You need someone who can take responsibility for what already exists.
We regularly hear variations of the same problem:
Changing development teams should not automatically mean changing the software.
The first job is understanding the system well enough to change it safely.
We review:
Then we tell you what needs immediate attention and what can be left alone.
1
If the application is healthy, we document it, establish the build and deployment process and become the team responsible for maintenance and future development.
No unnecessary rewrite.
2
Sometimes the application needs a short period of recovery before normal development resumes.
That may mean fixing deployment, improving logging, securing credentials, resolving infrastructure risks or dealing with a fragile integration.
Once the foundation is understandable, ordinary development can continue.
3
If parts of the application are ageing, we can progressively replace them while the existing software continues operating.
That might mean moving an old .NET component, rebuilding one workflow, replacing an integration or modernising the user interface.
The existing system becomes the starting point, not something we throw away.
An ideal handover has source code, documentation, infrastructure diagrams and somebody from the previous team available to answer questions.
Real handovers often do not.
If all you have is:
bring what you have.
We can work out what is missing.
Years of business decisions can be buried inside an ordinary-looking application.
Pricing rules.
Approval workflows.
Customer exceptions.
Data structures.
Reports somebody relies on every Monday morning.
Replacing the technology without understanding those rules is how apparently simple rewrites become expensive.
Our first job is to separate the business value from the technical debt.
CoSource took over ongoing maintenance of NESS Corporation's existing nopCommerce B2B platform and its integration with Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
The work included understanding the existing codebase and infrastructure, improving security and SEO, maintaining the ecommerce application and improving the NAV integration.
The important point is that we did not need to have written the original system in order to take responsibility for its next stage.
NESS B2B ecommerce case studyWe do not require every project to start from an empty repository.
Our work spans older Microsoft applications through to modern .NET, Azure and current web technologies.
Taking over the application is not just an audit. We can continue maintaining, improving and developing it afterwards.
Your organisation retains ownership of the software and source code.
CoSource is led from Sydney, with an experienced development team supporting Australian organisations.
Start with a free 30-minute conversation.
Bring:
From there we can determine whether this is a straightforward takeover, a stabilisation job or a modernisation project.
Thirty minutes. Bring the application, the problem and whatever access you currently have.
We will tell you what it takes to take it over safely.
Book a free 30-minute discovery call