What Does Your Legacy System Really Cost?
Calculate the annual cost of operations, maintenance, risks and productivity losses.
Many legacy systems appear stable at first glance. However, the real costs arise from slow changes, manual workarounds, missing documentation, outage risks and increasing maintenance effort.
This calculator makes hidden costs visible – as an initial guide for system takeover, stabilization or modernization.
Legacy Rarely Costs Only IT Budget.
Visible costs are usually maintenance, operations and licenses. The truly critical costs often arise in business departments, manual processes, slow changes and a lack of transparency.
Direct Costs
Maintenance, support, operations, infrastructure and licenses.
Hidden Costs
Downtime, rework, workarounds, sources of error and technical debt.
Opportunity Costs
Slow changes, blocked innovation and lost productivity.
Calculate Your Legacy Costs.
Adjust the parameters to your situation. The results update automatically.
Basic Configuration
Core parameters of your legacy situation.
Personnel Costs of Legacy Operations
Direct costs for operations, maintenance, quality assurance and validation.
Infrastructure & Licensing Costs
Servers, hosting, third-party licenses and support contracts.
Hidden Risk & Opportunity Costs
Cost drivers that are often not clearly visible in traditional IT budgets.
Modernization Investment Comparison
Estimate of a one-time investment for reengineering, modernization or controlled replacement.
Cost Breakdown
Does This Sound Like Your System Landscape?
VIALUTIONS supports the takeover, analysis, stabilization and modernization of production legacy systems.
Book a No-Obligation ConsultationWhat the Calculation Reveals
The calculator is not an exact financial assessment, but an indicative model. It helps make typical legacy-system cost drivers visible in a structured way.
The analysis becomes particularly relevant when systems are business-critical but poorly documented, difficult to maintain or usable only through workarounds.
Typical Next Steps
Let’s Talk About Your Legacy Systems.
Whether takeover, stabilization or modernization: we review your situation systematically and provide an honest assessment.
Next Step
Briefly tell us which systems are affected. We will assess what a sensible starting point could look like.
Contact UsNote: All calculations are estimates and serve as an initial guide. A reliable assessment requires a specific analysis of your system landscape, processes, risks and operating data.