Modernisation and platforms

Build future-ready foundations that fuel faster delivery

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Reduce the cost of business change and create a modern, scalable technology foundation.

Whether it’s on-premise or cloud, AI free or AI native, we combine platform thinking and modern engineering practices to help you evolve legacy systems, reduce complexity and unlock faster, more reliable software delivery. Our approach helps you lower your total cost of ownership, improve developer experience and sets you up for long-term business success.

What we do

Legacy migration and improvement

Our experts help you modernise legacy systems by incrementally improving, replacing, replatforming or re-architecting components, without disrupting business continuity.

Architecture modernisation

Transforming monoliths into modular, decoupled architectures and introducing event-driven architecture, microservices and domain-aligned services to improve scalability, resilience and agility for future-proofed services.

Platform engineering

Whether it’s microservices, data pipelines, or GenAI, we create fast, secure, and opinionated paved roads that accelerate speed, quality, and reliability for your teams like never before.

Cloud optimisation

We help you get the most from your cloud investment. By simplifying infrastructure, implementing effective scale criteria and reducing waste, we help you lower costs while improving performance, scalability and maintainability.

Security

Our approach embeds security throughout, ensuring modernised platforms are resilient to threats, compliant with regulations and protected from the outset. This includes identity, access control and network design.

Why Equal Experts?

We bring clarity, speed and sustainability to modernisation.

Modernising platforms and technology estates isn’t about ripping out and replacing; it requires evolution with purpose. At Equal Experts, we meet you where you are, working incrementally and collaboratively to reduce risk and deliver continuous value.

Our consultants draw on real-world experience delivering modern platforms for complex organisations across the public and private sectors. We work shoulder to shoulder with your teams, creating solutions that fit your context, align with your business goals and last long after we’re gone.

With a focus on secure delivery, developer enablement and platform thinking, we help you build the strong, adaptable foundations your organisation needs to thrive in the age of AI and beyond.

How we help our clients with modernisation and platforms

bank card phishing finance fraud

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Beating ecommerce fraud at scale

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Rebuilding the plane mid-air at HMRC

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Transforming aviation at Manchester Airports Group

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Getting a digital platform ready for scale

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How to do digital transformation like John Lewis & Partners

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Supporting a small-medium business to scale, mature and evolve

Fortnightly deployments of the ecommerce monolith was a goal we’d wanted to achieve for a long time. It was great to work with a like-minded team, who took on the challenge and made it possible in a relatively short period of time.

Rob Hornby
Platform Product Manager , John Lewis & Partners

Insights

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Experimenting to enabling: How to think about AI when platform engineering

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Heritage services: What they are and why we love them

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Migration and modernisation options for your heritage services – Rethinking the AWS 6Rs

HMRC Office London

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Digital Platform Engineering at HMRC – a 10 year partnership that’s underpinned UK government services

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Why Kubernetes, Kafka, or Istio can derail your platform engineering efforts

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Escape ticketing hell with a shift to self-service platforms

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How to overcome technology anarchy with aligned autonomy

Get in touch

Ready to modernise and deliver faster?

Contact Equal Experts to explore how our modernisation and platform expertise can support your next phase of growth.