Replacing spreadsheets and legacy systems
The spreadsheet that runs the business, and the system nobody dares touch, replaced without losing a row.
Genbays migrates businesses off the spreadsheets and legacy systems they've outgrown: mapping what the old system really does, building the replacement to the workflow, and moving the data with its history intact.
- First
- We map what the old system does, including the workarounds
- Data
- Cleaned, mapped, migrated, checked. Original kept until sign-off
- Cutover
- Side by side, then a date you choose
- Scope
- 6 to 12 weeks, depending on the data
What you get
- Replacing the spreadsheet that has become the system of record
- Replacing legacy software that's out of support, or that only one person understands
- Migrating data with the history, the audit trail and the edge cases
- Running old and new side by side until you're sure
- Keeping the system that works, such as your CRM or attendance system, and building around it when replacing it isn't the answer
How we keep it honest
- Nothing is deleted until you sign it off
- Every migrated record can be traced to its source
- The workarounds get designed out, not carried over
Questions people ask us
The spreadsheet has years of data and formulas.
Then it's a good map. We read the formulas, because that's where the business rules live, and we keep the data with its history.
What if the old system has no export?
We've read databases, printed reports and screen scrapes. There's usually a way. If there isn't, we tell you before we start.
Will our team have to relearn everything?
They'll learn a system built around how they already work, with training included and both systems running side by side for a while.
Tell us what's slowing you down.
Forty-five minutes, no charge, no pushy follow-up. You'll talk to someone who builds software, not someone who sells it. You keep the workflow map either way.