# SaaS Migration in Stevenage > SaaS migration for Stevenage businesses, from Cube Systems. UK-built, UK-supported, and configured around your process. Serving St Albans, Watford and Hemel Hempstead too. **URL:** https://cubesystems.co.uk/product/saas-migration/hertfordshire/stevenage We support businesses in Stevenage the way we would want to be supported ourselves: someone who knows the account, on the end of a phone, and on site when being on site is what the job needs. Stevenage is well within our regular travel radius from Olney. ## Details - **Service:** SaaS Migration - **Type:** Product development - https://cubesystems.co.uk/product - **Engineering by:** Crushed Ice (https://crushedice.uk) - **Location:** Stevenage, Hertfordshire - **Distance from our Olney office:** 27 miles - well within our regular travel radius from Olney - **Postcode districts:** SG1, SG2 - **Also known as:** On-premise to SaaS migration, Cloud migration for software products, SaaS transformation, Software modernisation, Legacy application migration, Desktop to web migration ## Coverage We cover Stevenage and the surrounding area, including Town Centre, Old Town, Pin Green, Broadwater and Shephall, across the SG1 and SG2 postcode districts. We also work with businesses in St Albans, Watford and Hemel Hempstead and elsewhere in Hertfordshire. ## What is included - **Separate the product from the configuration:** Years of customer-specific tweaks get untangled into a core product plus configuration, so one codebase can serve everybody without a branch per client. - **Tenancy and identity introduced safely:** Accounts, organisations, roles and isolation added to a system that never had them, with a migration path that does not require every customer to move on the same weekend. - **Data moved without drama:** Repeatable migration scripts, dry runs against real data, reconciliation reports and a cutover plan with a rollback - not a big-bang evening and a lot of hope. - **Licences become subscriptions:** Perpetual licences and annual maintenance turned into recurring plans, with a commercial transition your existing customers will actually accept. - **Central deployment at last:** One version, updated centrally, with no site visits and no customer stuck three releases behind because their upgrade window never came. - **Visibility you never had:** For the first time you can see who uses what, which features justify their maintenance cost, and which customers are quietly disengaging. ## Real-world use cases ### A vendor with forty on-premise installations **Scenario:** A niche software vendor supported forty customer-hosted installations, each a slightly different version. Every bug fix had to be applied and tested forty times, and two customers were on releases so old they could not be upgraded in one step. **Outcome:** The product now runs as a single hosted platform with per-tenant configuration. Customers were migrated in cohorts over two quarters, support load fell sharply, and a fix now ships to everyone at once. ### A desktop application losing to browser-based rivals **Scenario:** A mature Windows desktop product was still better than its competitors at the actual job, but was losing deals on the demo because prospects wanted something that worked on a laptop, a tablet and from home. **Outcome:** The domain logic was preserved and re-exposed behind a web application and an API. The desktop client remained available during the transition, and new customers now only ever see the browser version. ### An internal system with an external market **Scenario:** An operator wanted to sell the system that ran their business, but it assumed one company, one set of reference data and one set of rules throughout, and their own data was interleaved with the application. **Outcome:** Tenancy, configurable reference data and rule sets were introduced, and the operator became simply the first tenant on their own platform. New customers can now be provisioned without touching the code. ## Figures - **One version** Instead of one per customer installation - **Cohorts** Customers migrated in stages, not overnight - **Reversible** Every cutover has a tested rollback ## Frequently asked questions **Do we have to rewrite everything?** Usually not. The valuable part of a mature system is the domain logic, and that is normally worth preserving. What changes is what surrounds it - tenancy, identity, the interface, deployment and billing. If a rewrite is the cheaper answer, we will say so. **What happens to our existing customers?** They move in cohorts, not all at once, and generally onto a platform that does more than the one they left. The migration plan is part of the project rather than an afterthought, because a technically perfect migration that upsets your customer base has failed. **Can both versions run side by side?** Yes, and for most migrations that is the sensible approach. The old installations keep working while the hosted platform proves itself, and customers move when they are ready rather than when the project plan says so. **How do we handle the change from licence to subscription?** Carefully, and usually with a transitional plan that credits existing maintenance. The commercial shape matters as much as the technical one, and we will work through both with you rather than only the second. ## Related services - **SaaS Development** - Take a software product from idea to a live, multi-tenant, subscription platform - designed, built and run by one team. https://cubesystems.co.uk/product/saas-development/hertfordshire/stevenage - **SaaS Rebuild** - Replatform an ageing SaaS product that has become expensive to change, slow to run or impossible to hire for. https://cubesystems.co.uk/product/saas-rebuild/hertfordshire/stevenage - **White Label SaaS** - A resellable subscription platform built under your brand, ready to sell to your own customers as your own product. https://cubesystems.co.uk/product/white-label-saas/hertfordshire/stevenage - **MVP Development** - Turn an idea into a working, sellable first version - small enough to launch, real enough to charge for. https://cubesystems.co.uk/product/mvp-development/hertfordshire/stevenage ## Elsewhere in Hertfordshire See https://cubesystems.co.uk/product/saas-migration/hertfordshire for saas migration across Hertfordshire. ## Contact - **Company:** Cube Systems Limited (company number 17220899, ICO registration number ZC216972) - **Email:** hello@cubesystems.co.uk - **Sales:** sales@cubesystems.co.uk - **Support:** support@cubesystems.co.uk - **Telephone:** 01234 672 617 (+441234672617) - **Address:** Unit 11, Olney Business Park, Osier Way, Olney, Buckinghamshire, MK46 5FP - **Opening hours:** Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 17:30 - **Part of:** Crushed Ice Group (https://crushedicegroup.co.uk)