With Sinfonia, modernise your ERP or home-made software without losing your business rules.
When the legacy system holds you back
The legacy system embeds twenty years of business rules. Teams know it by heart, and it has lasted far longer than planned. Microsoft Dynamics NAV or AX, a WinDev application, Visual Basic 6 or IBM i: the technology changes, the picture stays the same.
Every change becomes a project — when it is possible at all. So teams invent shortcuts: a spreadsheet here, an email chain there… The cost shows up every week in hours of re-keying, in work at a standstill when the right person is away, in personal data on machines outside any controlled perimeter.
Start from the real business, not the code
Your business rules carry the company’s know-how: its calculations, its approval workflows, its exceptions. Gartner expects that, by 2027, more than 70% of recently implemented ERP initiatives will fail to fully meet their original business case goals.
Rather than original specifications or a code audit, Sinfonia starts from the real business: your management processes and their documents. Spreadsheets, Access databases, hand-drawn diagrams… Sinfonia automatically extracts the logic and composes the matching application. It includes the best practices of your trade and the company’s security and audit rules.
The application then lives with the business: Sinfonia spots new practices and proposes adding them, after a test on a copy of the real data and human approval.
Free to leave
Swapping one dependency for another solves nothing. With Sinfonia, data stays exportable at any time, in an open format. Structure, rules and workflows are described in a data model your teams can read.
Any provider, human or AI, can understand the application from this model. If you leave, the company has everything it needs to rebuild a working application.
Test it on your own documents
- 01Seeding
Three to five representative items of the legacy system or its workarounds: invoices, spreadsheets, screens.
- 02Composition
Sinfonia composes a working application from these items.
- 03Review
We use the application together, then hand over its data model, whether or not you go further.
The test takes an hour and is free. Your files are used only for the test and deleted after the review.