# SaaS Rebuild in Watford > Need saas rebuild in Watford? Cube Systems implements and supports saas rebuild across Watford, St Albans, Stevenage and Hemel Hempstead and the wider Hertfordshire area. **URL:** https://cubesystems.co.uk/product/saas-rebuild/hertfordshire/watford Being well within our regular travel radius from Olney, Watford is somewhere we get to regularly. Discovery, training and go-live are all better done in the room, and at 37 miles that is entirely practical. ## Details - **Service:** SaaS Rebuild - **Type:** Product development - https://cubesystems.co.uk/product - **Engineering by:** Crushed Ice (https://crushedice.uk) - **Location:** Watford, Hertfordshire - **Distance from our Olney office:** 37 miles - well within our regular travel radius from Olney - **Postcode districts:** WD17, WD18, WD19, WD24, WD25 - **Also known as:** SaaS replatform, Software rewrite, Legacy SaaS modernisation, Technical debt remediation, Platform re-architecture, Application re-engineering ## Coverage We cover Watford and the surrounding area, including Town Centre, Cassiobury, West Watford, North Watford and Nascot Wood, across the WD17, WD18, WD19 and WD24 postcode districts. We also work with businesses in St Albans, Stevenage and Hemel Hempstead and elsewhere in Hertfordshire. ## What is included - **A technical assessment first:** Before anything is rebuilt, a written view of what is actually wrong, what it is costing you, and which parts are worth keeping. Sometimes the answer is that a rebuild is not warranted. - **Strangler-fig, not big bang:** The new platform takes over one capability at a time behind a stable interface, so the product keeps shipping and the project can be stopped at any point without waste. - **The data model, revisited:** A schema that reflects how the business works now rather than how it worked in the first year, with a migration that preserves every customer’s history. - **Tests you can actually rely on:** A test suite that gives a truthful answer, so a release stops being an event. Confidence in deployment is usually the single biggest change people notice. - **Performance and cost under control:** Query paths, caching, background work and infrastructure sizing revisited together, which often takes the hosting bill down as well as the page load times. - **A codebase you can hire for:** Mainstream, current, documented technology - so the next developer you hire can be productive in a fortnight rather than a quarter. ## Real-world use cases ### A platform where releases had become frightening **Scenario:** An established SaaS business shipped once a quarter, at night, with the whole team on standby. The test suite had been red for so long that it was ignored, and two features had been abandoned mid-build because nobody could predict the side effects. **Outcome:** Capabilities were migrated one at a time onto a new platform with a reliable test suite and automated deployment. Releases now happen weekly during working hours, and the abandoned features shipped. ### A product priced out by its own hosting bill **Scenario:** A data-heavy SaaS product was spending a large fraction of its revenue on infrastructure because of query patterns laid down in the first year and never revisited. **Outcome:** The data model and query paths were rebuilt around how customers actually use the product, with appropriate caching and background processing. Infrastructure cost fell substantially and the platform got faster at the same time. ### A codebase nobody left could explain **Scenario:** A profitable platform had lost its original developers. The remaining team could keep it running but would not touch the billing or permissions code, so the roadmap had stalled for over a year. **Outcome:** The riskiest areas were rebuilt first, documented and covered by tests. The in-house team took ownership of the new code as it landed, and the roadmap restarted. ## Figures - **Staged** One capability at a time, never a big bang - **Assessment** A written verdict before anything is rebuilt - **Weekly** Releases during working hours, not at midnight ## Frequently asked questions **Will our customers notice?** Only in the sense that things get better. A rebuild done behind a stable interface is invisible to users; what they see is that features start arriving again and that the product stops being slow. **Is a rebuild always the right answer?** No, and we will say so. Plenty of systems described as unmaintainable are actually fine once the deployment pipeline and the test suite are fixed. The assessment comes first, and it is worth having even if we do nothing else. **Can we keep shipping features during the rebuild?** Yes - that is the main argument for a staged approach. A two-year rewrite during which the product stands still is how competitors catch up. Each stage should leave you better off even if the next one never happens. **What if we only want part of it done?** That is a perfectly good outcome. Some customers take the assessment, fix the deployment pipeline and the worst two modules, and stop there because the cost of change has come down enough. ## Related services - **SaaS Migration** - Turn an existing on-premise, desktop or single-client system into a multi-tenant product that anybody can subscribe to. https://cubesystems.co.uk/product/saas-migration/hertfordshire/watford - **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/watford - **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/watford - **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/watford ## Elsewhere in Hertfordshire See https://cubesystems.co.uk/product/saas-rebuild/hertfordshire for saas rebuild 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)