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Digital Infrastructure Modernization Agency

Legacy systems, siloed databases and manual business processes not only carry costly technical debt, but also impede organizations in their ability to scale and accurately report on enterprise data. 9thCO specializes in modernizing legacy digital systems and removing barriers to growth.

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The Cost of Technical Debt & Monolithic Systems

Legacy software and monolithic applications deter operational efficiency and compound technical debt:

  • Tightly Coupled Architecture: When your user interface, business logic and database run on a single (a.k.a. monolithic) stack, a minor update can trigger cascading failures across the entire system.

  • Severe Latency: Legacy database backends (e.g. on-prem AS/400) choke on dynamic requests. Nested/recursive queries cause application crashes.

  • Data Disconnection: Subsidiaries, acquisitions, and departments frequently run on disparate databases. Without a unified orchestration layer, executives rely on retroactive spreadsheets instead of real-time operational visibility.

  • Brittle Data Syncs: Poorly-architected connectors introduce data corruption between systems. Staff spend hours manually reconciling records.

  • Paper-based Processes: Highly specialized workflows are trapped in paper logs, manual data entry and individual producer knowledge.

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Why Leading Enterprises Partner with 9thCO

  1. 1

    Platform-Agnostic Composable Engineering

    We do not push one-size-fits-all proprietary platforms. We evaluate, select, and integrate best-of-breed components (CRM, CMS, E-commerce, etc) via clean, well-documented and secure APIs.

  2. 2

    100% Client Ownership of IP

    Your software, integrations and workflows belong entirely to you. We build directly within your cloud instance (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or serverless) using modern open standards. You are never locked into proprietary agency frameworks.

  3. 3

    Deep Legacy Backend & Database Fluency

    Our developers routinely tackle complex backend migrations; whether interfacing with 30-year-old mainframes, building custom database seeding tools or deploying real-time webhook reconciliation engines.

  4. 4

    Operational Change Management

    We conduct physical, on-site discovery across plants, warehouses, and offices to map existing workflows, shadow managers and operational staff. We then re-engineer legacy processes into intuitive digital experiences that frontline teams actually adopt.

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Case Studies

Here are a few samples of our team's Digital Infrastructure Modernization capabilities.

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