Every enterprise IT leader eventually faces the same question: how do you modernize business-critical applications without disrupting the operations that depend on them? A well-built application modernization strategy answers that question by turning a sprawling, aging application portfolio into a structured plan with clear priorities, timelines, and risk controls.
This guide walks through the steps involved in developing an application modernization strategy, the business risks of delaying action, and how Rivit helps enterprises execute modernization projects with confidence. Whether your organization is running Lotus Notes applications, custom-built legacy systems, or a mix of both, the approach below applies. It starts with knowing exactly what you have, which is whereAppAnalyzer Migration Analysiscomes in.
What Is an Application Modernization Strategy?
An application modernization strategy is a structured plan for evaluating, prioritizing, and updating an organization’s application portfolio so it continues to support business goals without the cost, risk, and inefficiency associated with outdated technology. It works as an ongoing discipline rather than a single project, combining application inventory, technical assessment, business alignment, and execution planning into one coordinated effort.
Many organizations confuse modernization with migration. Migration is the act of moving an application from one platform to another. Modernization is the broader decision-making process that determines which applications should be migrated, which should be rebuilt, which should be archived, and which should be retired outright. A sound application modernization strategy treats every application in the portfolio as a candidate for one of these outcomes, based on its business value, technical condition, and cost to maintain.
For organizations still running Lotus Notes or HCL Domino applications, this distinction matters even more. Many of these systems were built over 10, 15, or even 20 years ago by developers who have since left the organization. The applications may still run critical workflows, yet nobody fully understands what they do or why. An application modernization strategy forces that knowledge to the surface before a single line of code changes.
Rivit helps enterprise IT teams build this kind of strategy around real data rather than guesswork, using tools purpose-built for legacy Notes and Domino environments. AppAnalyzer produces a complete picture of an application portfolio before any modernization decisions are made, and Rivit offers that analysis at no cost so organizations can see the scope of the work before committing budget to it.
Is your organization trying to modernize applications without a clear picture of what you actually have? Rivit can help you build a data-driven application modernization strategy from the ground up.Contact our teamto get started.
The Business Cost of Delaying Your Application Modernization Strategy
Legacy applications rarely fail all at once. They degrade slowly, through rising maintenance costs, shrinking pools of available developers, and growing security exposure. By the time leadership treats modernization as urgent, the organization has often absorbed years of avoidable cost and risk.
Legacy systems can consume a disproportionate share of the total IT budget, leaving little room for new development. That spending does not build new capability. It keeps aging systems on life support. Every dollar spent maintaining a Domino application that could be modernized is a dollar not spent on initiatives that move the business forward.
There is also a talent problem. Domino development skills are increasingly rare, and the developers who understand these legacy systems are retiring or moving on. Organizations that wait too long to act may find themselves unable to staff even basic maintenance work, let alone a full modernization effort. A well-sequenced application modernization strategy addresses this risk directly by giving organizations a plan to reduce dependency on scarce legacy skill sets before that dependency becomes a crisis.
Security and compliance exposure compounds the problem. Older platforms often fall behind on patching, encryption standards, and access controls, which creates risk in regulated industries such as financial services, insurance, healthcare, and government. Waiting to modernize does not eliminate this risk. It simply extends the window during which the organization is exposed.
Rivit works with enterprise teams acrossfinance and banking,government and civil agencies,life sciences and healthcare,and other regulated sectors to quantify these risks and turn them into a business case that leadership can fund. Rivit’s consultants have watched howDomino support extensionschange the internal conversation, and they help IT leaders separate a genuine reprieve from a delay that only moves the deadline.
Are legacy applications quietly consuming a growing share of your IT budget? Rivit can help you build the business case for an application modernization strategy that leadership will support.Contact our teamto discuss your portfolio.
How Rivit Approaches Application Modernization Strategy Differently
Most firms that offer modernization services come at the problem from one direction. Cloud consultancies push infrastructure. General development shops push a rebuild. Tooling vendors push whichever conversion product they sell. Each of those recommendations arrives before anyone has looked closely at the portfolio, which is why so many modernization programs stall in year two.
Rivit built its practice the other way around. The company spent years building and maintaining Lotus Notes and Domino applications before it ever offered migration services, which means its consultants have written the kind of undocumented workflow logic they are now asked to untangle. That background shapes four things about how Rivit runs an application modernization strategy.
Discovery comes before any recommendation
Rivit does not propose an approach until AppAnalyzer has scanned the environment and produced real numbers on usage, complexity, and dependencies. Because that analysis is offered at no cost, there is no commercial pressure to skip it. Organizations get a defensible scope before they get a proposal.
Every outcome is on the table
Rivit can rebuild an application, archive it, retire it, or build something new to replace the process entirely. A firm that only sells rebuilds will find reasons to rebuild. Rivit’s own tooling covers migration, analysis, and archiving, so the recommendation for each application follows the data rather than the product line.
AI does the volume work, experienced developers own the outcome
Revive uses AI-assisted code generation to handle the repetitive translation work that consumes most of a manual migration budget. Rivit’s developers then review, refine, and test what the platform produces. Rivit has written candidly aboutwhere AI-assisted programming falls short,and that realism is deliberate. Automation without expert review is how migrations quietly lose business rules.
Platform depth instead of general capability
Rivit maintains one of the largest concentrations of Notes and Domino specialists in North America. For an application modernization strategy built around retiring Domino, that depth changes the risk profile. Building the React front end is the part most development firms can handle. Working out what a 2004 Notes agent was actually doing, and why someone added an exception to it in 2011, is where these projects succeed or fail.
Have you been given a modernization recommendation before anyone looked at your actual portfolio? Rivit can show you what your environment contains before you commit to an application modernization strategy.Contact our teamfor a no-cost analysis.
Step 1: Build a Complete Application Inventory with Rivit AppAnalyzer
Every effective application modernization strategy starts with an honest inventory. Most enterprise IT teams underestimate how many applications they actually run, particularly in Lotus Notes and Domino environments where departmental applications were often built without central IT involvement. Some organizations discover hundreds of Notes databases they did not know existed, many of which have not been touched in years but are still technically active.
A proper inventory captures more than a list of application names. It documents who uses each application, how often it is used, what business function it supports, how complex its underlying code is, and what dependencies it has on other systems. Without this information, it is impossible to prioritize modernization work or estimate its cost accurately.
This is where AppAnalyzer plays a central role in Rivit’s approach. Instead of relying on manual audits that take months and still miss applications,AppAnalyzer Migration Analysisautomatically scans an organization’s Notes and Domino environment and produces a complete inventory, including usage statistics, technical complexity scores, dependency mapping, retirement candidates, and cost estimates. Rivit offers this assessment at no cost, which allows organizations to understand the scope of their modernization project before committing budget to it.
The output matters as much as the scan itself. Rivit delivers the inventory in a form IT leaders can take to a steering committee, with application counts, complexity bands, and a first view of which systems belong in which track. That is usually the moment an application modernization strategy stops being a general intention and becomes a fundable program. Rivit has written before about how a disciplinedapplication inventorychanges the economics of a migration.
A complete inventory also reveals a category of applications many organizations forget to plan for: those that are rarely used but cannot be deleted due to compliance or historical record-keeping requirements. These applications belong in a different track of the application modernization strategy, one focused on archiving rather than rebuilding.
Do you know how many Notes databases are still active in your environment? Rivit’s no-cost AppAnalyzer scan gives you the inventory your application modernization strategy depends on.Contact our teamto schedule it.
Step 2: Assess Business Value and Technical Risk with Rivit’s Consultants
Once the inventory is complete, each application needs to be evaluated against two dimensions: how much business value it delivers, and how much technical risk it carries. This step, often called rationalization, is where an application modernization strategy starts to take shape as a prioritized plan rather than a list of systems.
Business value considers how critical the application is to daily operations, how many users depend on it, and whether it supports revenue-generating or compliance-critical processes. Technical risk considers the age of the underlying code, the availability of developers who understand it, how well it is documented, and how exposed it is from a security standpoint.
Applications with high business value and high technical risk are usually the top priority for modernization, since they represent the greatest combination of importance and vulnerability. Applications with low business value, regardless of technical risk, are strong candidates for retirement or archiving rather than costly redevelopment. This distinction prevents organizations from spending modernization budget rebuilding applications that no longer serve a meaningful purpose.
Rivit’senterprise application developmentconsultants work directly with IT leaders during this stage. Much of the value here is not technical. Two departments will disagree about whether an application is essential. A system nobody has requested a change to in four years will turn out to be the one that produces a quarterly regulatory file.
Rivit’s consultants run these conversations regularly and know which claims to test against the usage data AppAnalyzer has already produced. Rivit’s guidance onapplication rationalizationcovers this stage in more detail.
Do you know which applications carry the most risk relative to the value they deliver? Rivit can rationalize your portfolio as part of a complete application modernization strategy.Contact our teamto schedule an assessment.
Step 3: Choose the Right Modernization Approach for Each Application
Not every application should be modernized the same way. A mature application modernization strategy evaluates each system against a set of possible approaches and selects the one that best matches its business value, technical condition, and urgency. These approaches generally fall into five categories, a model widely used in enterprise IT planning and documented inMicrosoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework guidance on rationalizing a digital estate.
Rehosting moves an application to new infrastructure, such as the cloud, with minimal changes to the underlying code. It reduces infrastructure risk quickly but does little to address outdated architecture or business logic trapped inside a legacy platform.
Replatforming makes targeted changes to allow an application to run more efficiently on a modern platform without a full rebuild. This approach works well for applications that are structurally sound but running on end-of-life infrastructure.
Rearchitecting restructures how an application is built, often breaking a monolithic system into more modular components. This approach is common when an application needs to scale, integrate with modern systems, or support new functionality that the original architecture cannot handle.
Rebuilding recreates the application from the ground up on a modern technology stack while preserving the original business logic and workflows. This is the most common path for Lotus Notes and Domino applications, since the underlying platform itself is being retired rather than the specific application.
Replacing substitutes the legacy application entirely with a modern commercial or custom-built alternative. This approach makes sense when the business process the application supports has changed enough that rebuilding the old logic no longer makes sense.
For organizations retiring Lotus Notes and Domino applications, rebuilding is typically the most direct path, since it preserves years of institutional knowledge and business logic while removing dependency on unsupported infrastructure.Revive Application Migrationwas purpose-built for this scenario.
Revive uses AI-assisted code generation to accelerate the rebuild process, translating legacy Notes applications into modern React front ends with Java or Node.js back ends, running on PostgreSQL or MongoDB databases. This reduces the manual effort typically required to reconstruct business logic by hand and shortens modernization timelines considerably.
Choosing the wrong approach is one of the most expensive mistakes an organization can make in its application modernization strategy. Rebuilding an application that only needed replatforming wastes budget. Replatforming an application that has fundamentally outgrown its original design only postpones a rebuild that will eventually be necessary anyway.
Not sure which modernization approach is right for your Lotus Notes applications? Rivit can match each application to the right path forward.Contact our teamto talk through your options.
Step 4: Prioritize and Sequence Your Modernization Roadmap
With applications assessed and matched to a modernization approach, the next step is sequencing the work. Few organizations have the budget or staffing to modernize an entire portfolio at once, so an application modernization strategy needs a roadmap that phases work in a logical order.
Sequencing typically starts with applications that combine high business risk with achievable modernization scope. These early wins build organizational confidence in the modernization program and generate momentum for larger, more complex projects later. Applications tied to regulatory deadlines or expiring vendor support contracts often need to move up in priority regardless of their complexity, since the cost of delay grows sharply as those deadlines approach.
Dependencies between applications also shape sequencing. If several applications share data or workflows, modernizing them out of order can create integration problems that are more expensive to fix than if they had been planned together from the start. Mapping these dependencies during the inventory stage pays off directly here, and it is one of the reasons Rivit runs AppAnalyzer before drafting a roadmap rather than after.
A realistic roadmap also accounts for organizational capacity. IT teams still need to support day-to-day operations while modernization work is underway, which means the pace of the roadmap has to reflect available internal resources, not just technical priority. This is often where organizations benefit from an outside partner who can scale modernization capacity up or down as needed without the delays associated with internal hiring. Rivit is frequently engaged for exactly this reason, taking on the migration workload so internal teams can keep the business running.
Is your modernization roadmap limited by internal capacity rather than by priority? Rivit can add migration capacity to your application modernization strategy without a hiring cycle.Contact our teamto discuss timelines.
Step 5: Execute Migration with Rivit’s AI-Assisted Revive Platform
Execution is where an application modernization strategy either delivers on its promise or falls behind schedule. Traditional application migration relies heavily on manual code translation, which is slow, expensive, and prone to losing business logic that was never formally documented. This is especially true for Lotus Notes applications, where years of workflow customization often exist only inside the application itself.
AI-assisted migration tools change this equation. Rather than requiring developers to manually rebuild every form, view, and workflow rule, AI-powered platforms can analyze existing application code and automatically generate a significant portion of the new application, preserving business logic while translating it into a modern technology stack. Experienced developers are still central to the work. Their role shifts from manual code translation to review, refinement, and quality assurance, which is faster and less error-prone overall.
Rivit’s Revive platform applies this approach specifically to Lotus Notes and Domino applications. Revive combines AI-assisted code generation with deep Domino expertise to migrate applications to modern React front ends, Java and Node.js back ends, and cloud-ready PostgreSQL or MongoDB databases, all while preserving the workflows and business rules the organization depends on. For enterprises managing dozens or hundreds of applications, this kind of automation is often the difference between a modernization program that finishes on schedule and one that stalls under its own manual workload.
Execution also requires careful attention to business continuity. Enterprise applications frequently support processes that cannot tolerate extended downtime, particularly in industries such asmanufacturing,utilities,andtransportation and logistics.Rivit’s migration plans include parallel testing, phased rollouts, and clear rollback procedures so operations continue uninterrupted while the new application comes online. Rivit’s published work onmigrating a Domino-based investment accounting platformshows how that discipline plays out on a live commercial system.
Is manual code translation slowing down your modernization timeline? Rivit’s Revive platform can accelerate your application modernization strategy without sacrificing business logic.Contact our teamto see how it works.
Step 6: Archive, Retire, and Govern What Remains with Rivit Dcom
Not every application identified in the inventory needs to be rebuilt or migrated. A complete application modernization strategy also accounts for applications that should be archived or retired, and for the ongoing governance needed to keep the modernized portfolio from accumulating new technical debt.
Archiving applies to applications that hold historical or regulatory value but no longer need to run as active systems. Rather than keeping an entire Domino server running to preserve access to a handful of rarely used databases, organizations can archive that data into a secure, searchable format and retire the underlying infrastructure.
This reduces licensing and infrastructure costs significantly while maintaining compliance with retention requirements. Dcom, Rivit’sapplication archivingproduct, is built specifically for this purpose, giving organizations a way to decommission legacy servers without losing historical records.
Archiving is also the most commonly underused part of an application modernization strategy. Organizations arrive assuming the portfolio splits into systems worth rebuilding and systems worth deleting, then discover that a third of it belongs in neither group. Moving those applications into Dcom shrinks the migration scope and the budget attached to it, often materially.
Retirement applies to applications that no longer serve a business purpose at all. These are often duplicate systems, abandoned pilot projects, or applications tied to processes the organization no longer follows. Removing them from the active portfolio reduces both cost and security exposure, and it simplifies the remaining modernization work by shrinking the total scope. Rivit’sapplication decommissioning guidancewalks through how to retire a system cleanly.
Governance is the final piece. Once modernization work is complete, organizations need a process for evaluating new applications before they are built, so the portfolio does not quietly accumulate the same kind of unmanaged sprawl that made the original modernization project necessary. A strong application modernization strategy includes this forward-looking governance model, not just a one-time cleanup effort.
Do you have applications still running that no one actively uses, with no plan to retire them? Rivit can archive and decommission legacy systems safely.Contact our teamto discuss your options.
Common Pitfalls in Application Modernization Strategy and How Rivit Helps You Avoid Them
Even well-intentioned modernization programs run into predictable problems. Recognizing these pitfalls early helps organizations avoid costly delays and budget overruns.
One common mistake is starting migration work before completing a proper inventory and assessment. Organizations that skip straight to rebuilding applications often discover midway through the project that they missed dependencies, misjudged complexity, or targeted the wrong applications first. This almost always costs more time than the assessment phase would have taken. Rivit’s sequence exists to prevent this, which is why AppAnalyzer runs first and costs nothing.
Another pitfall is treating every application the same way, applying a single modernization approach across the entire portfolio regardless of each application’s actual condition. This leads to over-investing in low-value applications and under-investing in the systems that matter most. Because Rivit’s toolset covers migration, archiving, and custom development, the recommendation for each application in an application modernization strategy can differ without changing vendors.
Underestimating the amount of undocumented business logic embedded in legacy applications is another frequent problem, particularly with Lotus Notes systems built over many years by developers who are no longer with the organization. Migration projects that do not account for this hidden complexity tend to run over budget and over schedule, or worse, launch a replacement application that is missing workflows the business still relies on.
Rivit’s Domino specialists know where that logic tends to hide, and AppAnalyzer surfaces the complexity before it becomes a change order. Rivit has documented theroadblocks that derail Notes application migrationsin more detail.
Finally, many organizations underestimate the internal resource commitment required to support a modernization program alongside daily operations. Without additional capacity, either from new hires or an experienced partner, in-house teams end up stretched too thin to execute the roadmap on schedule.
Has a previous modernization attempt stalled partway through? Rivit can review what happened and rebuild your application modernization strategy on firmer ground.Contact our teamfor a second look.
Industries Rivit Serves with Application Modernization Strategy Work
Legacy Notes and Domino applications tend to concentrate in industries that adopted the platform early and then built decades of process around it. Rivit’s work is shaped by those sectors, and the shape of an application modernization strategy changes depending on which one an organization operates in.
Infinance and banking,the constraints are regulatory reporting, audit trails, and data retention. Applications cannot simply be switched off, and the migration has to preserve an evidentiary record. Rivit’s workmodernizing a major bank’s branch operations platformis an example of what that involves.
Ingovernment and civil agencies,procurement cycles and public accountability shape the timeline. Agencies need defensible cost estimates before funding is approved, which is where a no-cost AppAnalyzer assessment carries particular weight.
Inlife sciences and healthcareandpharma,validated systems and long retention periods dominate. An application modernization strategy in these sectors leans more heavily on archiving than in most others.
Inmanufacturing,utilities,andtransportation and logistics,continuity is the constraint. Plant, grid, and dispatch applications run on schedules that leave narrow cutover windows, so phased rollout and rollback planning matter more than raw migration speed.
Intechnology,the applications are often commercial products built on Domino and sold to customers, which adds a distribution and support dimension that internal IT migrations do not have. Rivit’s migration work forVertex, a tax solutions provider,covered exactly that situation.
Does your industry carry compliance or continuity constraints that generic modernization advice ignores? Rivit can build an application modernization strategy around your sector’s actual requirements.Contact our teamto talk specifics.
Where Rivit Delivers Application Modernization Strategy Support
Rivit is headquartered in Vaughan, Ontario, in the Greater Toronto Area, and works with enterprise organizations across Canada and the United States. The company maintains one of the largest teams of Notes and Domino specialists in North America, which matters for a practical reason: a modernization program that depends on two or three available Domino developers is fragile, and organizations running large portfolios need a partner with depth behind the first engagement.
Delivery is not limited by geography. Modernization work of this kind is done through secure remote access to the customer’s environment, coordinated with internal IT teams, which allows Rivit to support organizations across North American time zones without the cost and delay of on-site staffing. Canadian organizations often appreciate a domestic partner for data residency and procurement reasons, while US enterprises get a team in an adjacent time zone rather than an offshore one.
For any application modernization strategy that spans multiple business units or regions, this matters during execution rather than planning. Coordinating a phased rollout across several sites requires a partner who can hold consistent standards across all of them, and Rivit staffs its projects so that the same team that ran the analysis carries through to the migration.
Are you looking for a North American modernization partner with genuine Domino depth? Rivit can support your application modernization strategy across Canada and the United States.Contact our teamto start the conversation.
Other Rivit Solutions That Support Your Application Modernization Strategy
Most organizations arrive at Rivit through one specific need, usually a Domino environment that has become difficult to support. The work rarely stays that narrow, so it helps to know what else is available before the roadmap is set.
AppAnalyzer Migration Analysisis the discovery layer. It scans the Notes and Domino environment and returns inventory, usage statistics, complexity scoring, dependency mapping, migration readiness, retirement candidates, and cost estimates. Rivit provides it at no cost, and it is the natural first step in any application modernization strategy.
Revive Application Migrationhandles the rebuild. AI-assisted code generation converts legacy Notes applications into React front ends with Java or Node.js back ends on PostgreSQL or MongoDB, with workflow and business logic preserved and cloud-ready deployment on the other side.
Dcom Application Archivingcovers everything that should be preserved rather than rebuilt. Historical application data moves into a secure, searchable archive, the source systems are decommissioned, and retention obligations stay intact while the server licensing bill drops.
Enterprise Application Developmentcovers what comes after, and sometimes instead of, a migration. Custom enterprise software, workflow automation, system integration, API development, database modernization, and cloud-native applications all sit here. When a legacy application supports a process that has outgrown its original design, rebuilding it as it was would be the wrong answer, and this is the service that handles that case.
Infrastructure servicessupport the environments these applications run on, both during a migration and afterward. Modernized applications need somewhere stable to live, and legacy servers need to be maintained safely until the day they are retired.
Together these five solutions cover the full arc of an application modernization strategy, from the first scan of an unmapped Domino environment to the decommissioning of the last server. Rivit also publishessuccess storiesfrom completed engagements for organizations that want to see how the pieces fit together in practice.
Not sure which Rivit solution your portfolio needs first? Rivit can map your application modernization strategy to the right combination of analysis, migration, archiving, and development.Contact our teamto find out.
How Rivit Supports Every Stage of Your Application Modernization Strategy
Rivit was built around the specific challenge of modernizing Lotus Notes and HCL Domino applications, which gives the company a level of platform depth that general software development firms do not have. That expertise, combined with proprietary AI-powered tools, allows Rivit to support an application modernization strategy from the first inventory scan through final decommissioning.
The process typically begins with AppAnalyzer Migration Analysis, which gives organizations a complete, data-driven picture of their application portfolio at no cost. From there, Rivit’s consultants work alongside internal IT teams to rationalize the portfolio, matching each application to the modernization approach that fits its business value and technical condition.
For applications that need to move off Lotus Notes and Domino entirely, Revive Application Migration accelerates the rebuild using AI-assisted code generation, delivering modern applications built on React, Java, Node.js, and PostgreSQL or MongoDB, without losing the business logic that took years to develop. For applications that need to be preserved rather than rebuilt, Dcom provides a secure, compliant way to retire infrastructure while retaining access to historical data.
Beyond migration and archiving, Rivit’s enterprise application development services support organizations that need custom-built solutions, ongoing integration work, or new applications designed to replace outdated business processes entirely. That range is what allows Rivit to stay engaged as a long-term modernization partner after the first project closes, rather than handing over a delivery and moving on.
Organizations across technology, financial services, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and other sectors rely on this combination of legacy platform expertise and modern development capability to reduce the risk, cost, and disruption typically associated with enterprise modernization. Rivit has been doing this work since 2011, and the team’s Notes and Domino experience reaches back well before that.
Ready to move forward with an application modernization strategy built around your specific portfolio? Rivit can guide you through every stage, from discovery to execution.Contact our teamto schedule a conversation.
Conclusion
Building an application modernization strategy is an ongoing process of understanding your application portfolio, prioritizing what matters most, and executing modernization work in a way that protects business continuity.
Organizations that approach modernization with a clear, data-driven plan reduce risk, control costs, and position themselves for long-term growth. Rivit brings more than a decade of dedicated Lotus Notes and HCL Domino modernization work together with AI-powered tools like Revive, AppAnalyzer, and Dcom to help enterprises move through every stage with confidence.
Is your organization ready to replace guesswork with a funded, sequenced application modernization strategy? Rivit can start with a no-cost analysis of your Domino environment.Contact our teamto begin.
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Application Modernization Strategy: FAQs
What is the first step in a Rivit application modernization strategy engagement?
The first step is AppAnalyzer Migration Analysis. Rivit scans your Notes and Domino environment and returns a complete inventory covering usage, technical complexity, dependencies, retirement candidates, and cost estimates. Rivit provides this analysis at no cost, so organizations get a defensible scope before any budget is committed. Every recommendation Rivit makes afterward is based on what that scan found.
How long does Rivit take to develop an application modernization strategy?
The timeline depends on portfolio size, but most organizations complete the AppAnalyzer inventory and rationalization phase with Rivit within a few weeks rather than months, because the discovery is automated rather than manual. Execution of the roadmap typically spans months to years depending on how many applications need to be modernized and how much capacity the organization can commit.
Does Rivit recommend rebuilding every legacy application?
No. Rivit’s toolset covers migration, archiving, and custom development, so there is no commercial reason to push every application toward a rebuild. A Rivit application modernization strategy matches each application to the approach that fits its actual business value and technical condition, which may mean rehosting, replatforming, rearchitecting, rebuilding with Revive, archiving in Dcom, or retiring it entirely.
How does Rivit use AI in a Lotus Notes application modernization strategy?
Rivit’s Revive platform uses AI-assisted code generation to analyze existing Notes application code and automatically produce a significant portion of the modernized application, preserving business logic while reducing manual translation effort. Rivit’s developers then review, refine, and test the output. The automation handles volume; experienced Domino specialists own the result.
What does Rivit do with Lotus Notes applications that are rarely used but hold historical data?
Those applications go into Dcom, Rivit’s application archiving product. Historical data moves into a secure, searchable archive, the underlying Domino servers are decommissioned, and retention and compliance obligations remain satisfied. This is often the cheapest part of an application modernization strategy and one of the largest sources of infrastructure savings.
How much does a Rivit application modernization strategy assessment cost?
Rivit offers AppAnalyzer Migration Analysis at no cost. Organizations can understand the scope, complexity, and likely cost of a modernization project before committing budget or signing an engagement. This is deliberate. Rivit would rather a client make a funding decision on real portfolio data than on an estimate.
Which industries does Rivit support with application modernization strategy projects?
Rivit works with financial services and banking, government and civil agencies, life sciences and healthcare, pharma, manufacturing, utilities, transportation and logistics, and technology companies. These sectors tend to carry heavy compliance requirements and low tolerance for downtime, which is where a structured application modernization strategy and Domino platform depth matter most.
Why choose Rivit over a general software development firm?
General development firms can build modern applications but rarely understand what a legacy Domino application is actually doing, which is where migrations lose business rules. Rivit built and maintained Notes and Domino applications before offering migration services and now runs one of the largest teams of Notes and Domino specialists in North America, supported by proprietary tools in Revive, AppAnalyzer, and Dcom.