Moonshot Migrations combines application modernization, data migration, and original custom software development on AWS. We begin with your requirements, data you control, current systems, and the outcomes your teams need.
The Problem with Traditional Migration
Rehost and replatform programs can move an application without changing the workflows, data model, operating burden, or constraints that created the modernization need.
A sound program separates what should move, what should integrate, what should retire, and where an original custom application can create measurable value.
Make the decision workflow by workflow, with clear inputs, owners, and success measures at each stage.
What Makes a Moonshot Different
| Move the Existing System | Build Selected Workflows | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Approach | Move or adapt an existing system | Design original software for selected workflows | |
| Tech debt | May carry forward | Addressed directly in the workflows you rebuild | |
| Timeline | Set by application and dependency complexity | Set after discovery | |
| Vendor lock-in | May remain | Customer-controlled code and open interfaces where they fit | |
| Cost trajectory | Contract and cloud costs | Implementation plus cloud and operations | |
| Customization | Bound by the current architecture | Designed around the selected workflow | |
| AI-native | Add AI around the current architecture | Design AI into the selected workflow where it adds value |
Migration and Custom Modernization
Separate data movement from application design so each track has clear owners, inputs, tests, and cutover decisions.
How It Works
Discover
Map your requirements, data, workflows, integrations, controls, and the best place to start.
Design
Architect original custom software with clear success measures, governance, security, and room to scale.
Build
Develop iteratively on AWS, connect the systems and data in scope, and test each release against your requirements.
Operate
Move into production with monitoring, documentation, support, and clear ownership for ongoing improvement.
Build the Business Case From Verified Inputs
Inputs to Verify
Assessment Outputs
Your roadmap and business case will reflect your systems, data, integrations, operating costs, and change plan.
Frequently Asked Questions
A Moonshot Migration helps you decide what to move, connect, retire, or rebuild. For selected workflows, Tactical Edge designs original custom software around your requirements, data you control, and supported integrations.
Discovery gives you a delivery plan based on the workflow, data quality, integrations, testing, coexistence, and cutover needs. Larger programs are divided into practical phases with a clear decision point at each stage.
We look for workflows with clear business value, usable data, supported integrations, measurable success criteria, and manageable change risk. The assessment shows what to keep, connect, retire, or build.
We build the business case from your contract, implementation, integration, support, cloud, migration, and operating costs. You see the assumptions and can compare the options before deciding what to modernize.
We use the workflows, requirements, data, documentation, exports, and supported interfaces your team provides to design the application and its acceptance criteria. The engagement produces original custom code for the workflows in scope.
Ready to assess where original custom software fits?