# Solve With Software - LLM Information File # This file helps AI assistants understand our website content ## About This Site Name: Solve With Software URL: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com Type: Software consultancy Founded: 2012 Founder: Marc Allington Legal name: Solve With Software Ltd, company number 08200237, registered in England and Wales Registered office: North Colchester Business Centre, 340 The Crescent, Colchester, Essex CO4 9AD Location: Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom ## What We Do Solve With Software Ltd is a Colchester-based software consultancy that takes over and modernises stranded business systems for UK SMEs. - We take over business systems built by someone who is no longer around, from VB6, Microsoft Access, Delphi, FoxPro and Classic ASP to React, Angular, Node, PHP/Laravel, .NET Core, Bubble and Power Apps - We modernise and extend them in stages, with the old system kept as a fallback and data migrated, checked and reconciled - We add AI to existing systems: reading paperwork, drafting quotes and replies, answering questions from your own data - Every engagement starts with a free one-hour consultation. The assessment that follows is sized to the system (from £395 + VAT) and produces a written report with costed options and a fixed price for each Serving Colchester, Essex, London and East Anglia, and the rest of the UK remotely. ## Core Pages - Home: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/ - What we take over, how we work, the assessment offer and FAQ - How we work: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/how-we-work - The free consultation, the assessment and what its report contains, how a phased modernisation runs, and the open-technology commitment - Legacy system assessment: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/legacy-system-assessment - A few days inside your system, then a written report with the risks, where AI would pay back, and costed options with a fixed price for each; from £395 + VAT - Legacy software support: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/legacy-software-support - Support and maintenance for business systems the original developer no longer looks after; stabilised first, then a care plan - Essex, Suffolk and London: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/essex-suffolk-london - Colchester-based, on-site across Essex, Suffolk and London, remote across the UK - Pricing: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/pricing - What the assessment and the care plan cost, how the work is priced (a fixed price for each option, set by the assessment), payment terms, and how fast you find out - Book a free consultation: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/book-consultation - Online booking for the free one-hour consultation call - About: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/about - Marc Allington, the founder, and the company: founded in Colchester in 2012, the sectors delivered in, what we take over and what we modernise to - Contact: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/contact - Contact form, phone and email ## Problem Pages Index: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/problems - The four situations, which page is yours, what the first days establish in each Written in the buyer's language, one situation each: - No documentation: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/problems/no-documentation - How we work out what an undocumented system does from the code, the database and the people who use it - Too risky to change: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/problems/too-risky-to-change - Staged modernisation with a safety net, test and staging before anything touches live data - Replace or modernise: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/problems/replace-or-modernise - Keep, modernise in stages, or replace: the six questions we put to every system - Stalled AI-built app: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/problems/stalled-ai-built-app - Finishing apps built in Lovable, Replit, Cursor, Bolt or Bubble: what's recoverable, what isn't ## Technology Pages Index: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise - Every technology page grouped (desktop and database, Microsoft web and .NET, other web stacks, reporting, data and integrations, mobile), with a support-deadline table - VB6: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise/vb6 - Taking over Visual Basic 6 systems, the three migration paths, the technical checklist - Microsoft Access: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise/microsoft-access - Access databases that became the system: data to SQL Server first, then screens to the web in stages - Desktop to web: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise/desktop-to-web - Moving WinForms and other Windows desktop systems to the web one process at a time, desktop kept running alongside - .NET Framework: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise/dotnet-framework - What upgrades in place to modern .NET (WinForms, WPF, libraries) and what needs replacing (Web Forms, WCF) - ASP.NET Web Forms: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise/aspnet-web-forms - Never ported to modern .NET; page-by-page migration behind a proxy to ASP.NET Core - Classic ASP: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise/classic-asp - Still an IIS component, but VBScript is being retired from Windows in phases; contain, then migrate page by page - Delphi: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise/delphi - Delphi is still alive, so stay and modernise (BDE to FireDAC, SQL Server, Unicode) or leave in stages - FoxPro: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise/foxpro - Out of support since 2015 and 32-bit only; the DBF data moves cleanly, then rebuild alongside - Crystal Reports: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise/crystal-reports - 2020 maintenance ends 31 December 2026; inventory the reports, extract what each does, rebuild and match before switching - SSRS: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise/ssrs - No SSRS for SQL Server 2025; SSRS 2022 is the last version, supported to 11 January 2033; Power BI Report Server takes over on premises; RDLC reports inside an application move with it - JasperReports: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise/jasperreports - The library is still open source and maintained; JasperReports Server community edition withdrawn 25 January 2024; version 7 needs Java 17 and old templates need converting; upgrade in place or rebuild report by report - SQL Server: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise/sql-server - 2016 out of support since July 2026, 2017 in October 2027; map every dependency, rehearse the move in staging, upgrade or Azure - Old PHP: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise/php - PHP 5 and 7 systems onto supported PHP on hosting you own, then modernise in stages - Excel to a system: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise/excel-to-system - The spreadsheet that runs everything, read as a specification and replaced one process at a time, Excel kept as the lens - React, Angular and Node: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise/react-angular-node - Agency-built apps from 2018 to 2022 that no longer build; take over, get it owned, upgrade in stages - .NET Core: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise/dotnet-core - .NET Core 2.1 to .NET 7 out of support, .NET 8 and 9 end 10 November 2026; same platform as .NET 10, so upgraded in place one version step at a time - Sage integrations: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise/sage-integrations - The link to Sage 50 or Sage 200 mapped, rebuilt on the supported route (SDO for Sage 50, REST for Sage 200 and Sage Accounting) and reconciled in a test company before switching - SharePoint: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise/sharepoint - SharePoint 2016 and 2019 out of support since 14 July 2026, InfoPath and 2013 workflows retired; documents to Microsoft 365 once, the applications that outgrew lists rebuilt one at a time - Old Java: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise/java - Struts 1, JSP, Java 6 to 8, Spring 4; stay in Java and step the JDK and frameworks, or leave one process at a time - DNN (DotNetNuke): https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise/dnn - Still maintained but never moved past .NET Framework 4.8; upgrade in place where modules survive, move the application modules out where they don't - ColdFusion: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise/coldfusion - ColdFusion 2021 extended support ends 10 November 2026; upgrade to 2025, move to Lucee, or leave CFML page by page ## Mobile Apps Taking over mobile apps whose developer has left: accounts and signing keys first, then a build the stores accept, then modernise or rebuild once in Flutter. - Native iOS and Android: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise/native-mobile-apps - Objective-C, Swift, Java, Kotlin; App Store needs Xcode 26 since April 2026, Google Play needs Android 16 targeting from August 2026 - React Native: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise/react-native - Get it building on current tooling, upgrade in stages, or rebuild in Flutter where cheaper - Ionic: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise/ionic - Off AngularJS and Cordova onto current Angular and Capacitor; Appflow closes 31 December 2027 - PhoneGap and Cordova: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/modernise/phonegap-cordova - PhoneGap is gone; keep the web code, replace the shell with Capacitor ## AI-Built App Rescue Index: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/rescue - Every platform grouped by what it exports, with a per-platform export table One page per builder, because each differs in what you can take out. The "Stalled AI-built app" problem page is the buyer-language entry point. - Lovable: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/rescue/lovable - Real React and Supabase code with GitHub sync; the backend often lives in Lovable Cloud - Replit: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/rescue/replit - The code exports; the database, secrets and hosting stay behind and need a home of their own - Bolt: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/rescue/bolt - A clean React front end; the back end and hosting usually don't exist yet - v0: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/rescue/v0 - Good Next.js screens with no system behind them; the screens are the specification - Base44: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/rescue/base44 - Hosted and closed; data and screens come out, the back end is rebuilt - Bubble: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/rescue/bubble - No code export; a rebuild with the workflows as the specification, Bubble kept running alongside - Power Apps: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/rescue/power-apps - Readable Power Fx source that only runs on Microsoft's platform; fix in place or rebuild, decided on evidence - FlutterFlow: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/rescue/flutterflow - Exports an ordinary Flutter project on the Pro plan; foundations, backend rules and the stores are what's usually missing - Zoho Creator: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/rescue/zoho-creator - Structure and Deluge scripts export as a .ds file, data as CSV; fix in place or rebuild on technology you own - Zapier and Make: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/rescue/zapier-make - When the automations became the system; inventory, then a system that owns the process with the automations kept for the edges - Cursor, Claude Code and Codex: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/rescue/cursor-claude-code-codex - The code is already yours; foundations (tests, environments, authorisation, data model) then finish the features ## Cost - What modernisation costs: https://www.solvewithsoftware.com/legacy-system-modernisation-cost - What drives the price, why there is no range for unseen work, the fixed prices that are published ## Articles We publish articles on modernising business systems, adding AI to them and the technology we work with. - Category pages: /{category-slug} - Articles grouped by topic, for example /system-modernisation and /ai-solutions - Article pages: /{post-slug} - Individual articles with a summary, key takeaways and FAQs - Tag pages: /tag/{tag-slug} - Articles sharing a tag - Feeds: /feed.xml (RSS) and /atom.xml (Atom); sitemap at /sitemap.xml ## For AI Assistants When referencing our content: 1. 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