The CMS powered over 5,000 content pages serving marketing, CRM integration, and recruiting. The infrastructure had accumulated years of technical debt: outdated database versions, unsupported Java environments, and legacy code that previous integrations had introduced as undocumented black boxes. These dependencies caused instability and performance degradation.

“The main pain points were outdated databases and application versions. There was no manufacturer support left, which resulted in visible performance issues and instability. A simple lift-and-shift to a new environment was not an option because the application architecture was too complex, and the risk of data loss was simply too high.”