A question companies ask

The question: We depend on a closed legacy system that is expensive to change and barely connects to anything. How do we get out?

How to get out of a legacy vendor system

Rebuild what you use, on a platform you own. Substrait's team rebuilds the functions your people rely on, on Substrait, so you own the data and the software, and every later change and integration is fast.

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The cost of staying

The licence is the smaller cost of a closed vendor system. With AI, a change to software is now fast to make. A closed system holds back every improvement your own people could make, because only the vendor can change it, on the vendor’s timeline and price. Every integration with your other systems waits in the same queue.

What Substrait does

Substrait’s team rebuilds the system you want out of, on Substrait. You own the data and the software. Your people can build alongside the team, and keep improving the system after go-live.

The legacy systemRebuilt on Substrait
Your dataIn the vendor’s system and formatYours, in a system you own
A change requestA quote, then a waitYour people, or Substrait’s team, with no vendor queue
Your other systemsLittle or no connectionConnected, with access the data owner approves
Who can improve itOnly the vendorYour own people, on Substrait

Two checks before work starts

  1. Substrait rebuilds what you use. The team maps the functions your people rely on, and promises those.
  2. The vendor holds nothing besides code. If the vendor holds content rights, a supplier network or a regulatory approval, the team tells you before work starts.

How it starts

  1. Tell Substrait which system it is, and what it runs in your business.
  2. Substrait’s team maps the functions your people use, and how the system connects to the rest.
  3. You get a plan: what is rebuilt, in what order, and the estimate.
  4. The team builds it on Substrait, with your people alongside where they want to be.

Questions and answers

Do you rebuild everything the old vendor ships?

No. Substrait's team rebuilds the functions your people use, mapped with them, not every feature the vendor ships.

Is there anything a rebuild cannot replace?

Yes. Some vendors hold more than software, such as content rights, a supplier network or a regulatory approval. A rebuild does not replace those, and Substrait's team checks for them before work starts.

Who changes the system after go-live?

Your own people can, on Substrait, with the same security check and data grants as any other tool. Substrait's team can also make changes for you.

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Start with a result, not a rollout.

Book a demo and bring one real use case. We will show you how a tool your people build goes live on Substrait, with its data approved and its security check passed.