# SaaS Migration in Maidstone > SaaS Migration for businesses in Maidstone. Cube Systems covers Maidstone and Canterbury, Royal Tunbridge Wells and Folkestone, with on-site implementation and support from our Olney office. **URL:** https://cubesystems.co.uk/product/saas-migration/kent/maidstone Maidstone is comfortably within a morning’s drive of our Olney office, which means implementation here is done in person rather than over a screen share. That matters more than it sounds: most of what a system needs to know is learned by standing in the building. ## Details - **Service:** SaaS Migration - **Type:** Product development - https://cubesystems.co.uk/product - **Engineering by:** Crushed Ice (https://crushedice.uk) - **Location:** Maidstone, Kent - **Distance from our Olney office:** 80 miles - comfortably within a morning’s drive of our Olney office - **Postcode districts:** ME14, ME15, ME16, ME17, ME18 - **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 Maidstone and the surrounding area, including Town Centre, Bearsted, Loose, Barming and Larkfield, across the ME14, ME15, ME16 and ME17 postcode districts. We also work with businesses in Canterbury, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Folkestone and Gravesend and elsewhere in Kent. ## 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/kent/maidstone - **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/kent/maidstone - **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/kent/maidstone - **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/kent/maidstone ## Elsewhere in Kent See https://cubesystems.co.uk/product/saas-migration/kent for saas migration across Kent. ## 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)