Application Development and Integrations
The custom app you've outgrown.
The integrations that never quite worked.
Application modernization at eWay means two specific things: rebuilding custom applications you have outgrown when commercial software does not fit your operational model, and building the integrations between Cascade, Banner, Salesforce, identity providers, EMRs, and the other systems your institution already runs. We rebuild the first. We design and build the second. Then we operate both.
What is application modernization at eWay Corp?
Application modernization at eWay Corp covers two specific engagement types for public-sector institutions: rebuilding custom applications that have outgrown their original implementation or no longer fit the institution's operational model, and building integrations between systems (Cascade CMS, Banner, Salesforce, identity providers, EMRs, and other institutional systems) that were never designed to communicate. Engagements are scoped as defined-outcome projects with clear deliverables, then transition into ongoing application operations under a managed services contract.
The Two Problems
Application modernization at eWay is not generic.It is two specific buyer problems.
We do not pitch digital transformation. We rebuild custom applications and we build integrations. Pick the one that describes your situation.
Custom application rebuild
When commercial software does not fit your model, and the original developer has left.
Custom application rebuild
When commercial software does not fit your model, and the original developer has left.
Your institution runs a custom system that has been there for years. An EMR. A case management system. A member portal. A grant tracker. The original developer has moved on. Documentation is incomplete. Support is the team that uses it. Commercial alternatives exist, but they cost too much, replace too much, or do not fit how your institution actually works. The system needs to be rebuilt, on a stack the next person can maintain, by people who will still be there when it goes live.
System integration
When your CMS and Student Information System do not share data and every cycle creates manual work.
System integration
When your CMS and Student Information System do not share data and every cycle creates manual work.
Your CMS publishes content. Banner manages students. Salesforce manages prospects. Your identity provider sits between all of them. None of them share data automatically, and every enrollment cycle creates manual work because nobody built the bridge. Or: your CRM has donor records, your event platform has registrations, your CMS publishes the giving page, and reconciling them is a quarterly project. The need is the integration layer that connects systems already in place, with API contracts that survive future system swaps.
Two problems. The same team builds, integrates, and operates the result.
What we cover
Build, integrate, modernize, and operate. Across one engagement.
Four disciplines that map to the two problems above. Each card is a thing we do, not a thing we hand off to a different vendor.
Custom Application Development
We build new applications when commercial software does not fit, and we rebuild applications that have outgrown their original implementation. Cloud-native architectures designed for the operational model of public-sector institutions.
What we do
- API-first application architecture
- Full-stack development across back-end, front-end, and data layer
- Cloud-native services (managed compute, database, storage, identity)
- Custom portals, workflow tools, case management, EMR-style systems
You stop maintaining applications nobody knows how to maintain anymore, paying enterprise software fees for products that don't fit, and explaining to leadership why the EMR or case management system needs to be replaced again.
Integration Architecture
APIs, identity federation, data synchronization, and the connective tissue that makes Cascade, Banner, Salesforce, EMRs, and other institutional systems behave like one platform.
What we do
- API design, development, and management
- CMS-to-SIS integration (Cascade to Banner, Drupal to Banner, etc.)
- Identity federation (SAML, OIDC, Active Directory, Entra ID)
- CRM, ERP, EMR, and donor-system integration
- Event-driven and webhook architectures
You stop manually reconciling data between Cascade and Banner every enrollment cycle, hiring consultants to write one-off scripts, and explaining why systems that should talk to each other don't.
Stack Modernization & Cloud Enablement
Same-stack updates when you want to keep your stack. Stack migration when the foundation has aged out. Monolith decomposition when one commit risks the whole system. On-prem to cloud when the data center is going away.
What we do
- Same-stack modernization (ASP.NET WebForms to ASP.NET Core, etc.)
- Stack migration (PHP/Perl to Node.js, Python, React, Angular)
- Monolith decomposition into microservices
- On-prem to AWS or Azure replatforming
- Serverless and event-driven adoption where it earns its keep
You stop running production on frameworks that have not shipped a security update in three years, scrambling to find developers who still know your stack, and budgeting for the data-center decommissioning year after year.
Ongoing Application Operations
Applications and integrations are operated as production systems after we deliver them. Monitoring, patching, performance tuning, and integration health are part of the engagement, not a separate contract.
What we do
- Application monitoring and incident response
- Security patching and dependency updates
- Performance tuning under SLA
- Integration health monitoring with alerting
- Compatibility testing as upstream systems update
You stop hoping nothing breaks the day after we deliver, paying us to come back every time something does, and discovering an integration broke last Tuesday from a user who finally complained.
Sample modernization scenarios
The patterns we see and rebuild for, in plain language.
Most application modernization conversations land in one of these four shapes. Yours probably does too.
Same-stack modernization
You are locked into Microsoft and you want to stay there. We modernize within it: ASP.NET WebForms to ASP.NET Core, classic SQL Server to Azure SQL, Windows Authentication to Entra ID, on-prem to Azure App Service. The investment in licenses, training, and tooling stays. The application stops being a liability.
Stack migration
Your PHP 5 or Perl scripts have aged out. We migrate to a modern stack that fits the work: Node.js for I/O-heavy services, Python for data and ML pipelines, React or Angular for the UI, document stores or relational depending on the data shape. Stack chosen for the next 10 years, not the last 10.
Monolith to microservices
Your application is one tightly-coupled codebase where any change risks the whole system. We decompose it into independently-deployable services with clear boundaries. One commit no longer brings everything down. Deployment frequency goes up, blast radius goes down.
On-prem to cloud
Your data center is being decommissioned, security audits are flagging unsupported infrastructure, or your IT group can no longer carry the operational cost. We replatform applications onto AWS or Azure with a path that respects compliance posture, identity systems, and the ongoing operations model.
Who you actually work with
No rotating roles. The team that builds your application is the team that operates it.
Application modernization is a more technical engagement than a website rebuild. The team is bigger, the disciplines are deeper, and the same people stay with you year after year.
Engagement Manager
A named project manager who owns the relationship, the operating cadence, and the single accountable line back to your team. Not rotating, not a shared queue.
Cloud and Solution Architect
Designs the application architecture, the integration topology, and the cloud-native foundation. The person who decides what's monolithic, what's a service, and what's a managed platform component.
Application Engineers
Build the application. Back-end, front-end, data layer. Same engineers who design and build are the engineers who operate and patch it after launch, year over year.
DevOps Engineer
CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, deployment automation. Makes 'ship a fix today' possible without breaking the production environment that other systems depend on.
Database Specialist
Data modeling, migration, performance tuning, integrity. The person who makes sure your migration from SQL Server to Azure SQL (or from Oracle to Postgres) does not lose a row or a relationship.
QA and Integration Testing
Test coverage, integration validation, performance benchmarks. The person who finds the broken edge case before your users do, and validates every upstream-system update against your integrations.
Design, brand, content, and SEO are partner-agency work (yours, ours, or one we recommend).
Change management and end-user training are planned with your team. We coordinate.
Common Questions
What most organizations ask about Application Modernization
We have a custom application that no one on our team can maintain anymore. Can you take it over?
Yes. Most of our application engagements start with a system the original developer no longer supports. We assess the current state, document what exists, and either modernize what's there or rebuild it depending on what actually makes sense. We then operate the application after launch.
We need Cascade to talk to Banner (or Drupal to Salesforce, etc.). Can you build that integration?
Yes. CMS-to-SIS integrations are one of the two specific things this service is for. We design the API contract, build the integration layer, handle data synchronization and identity federation, and operate the integration on the same managed engagement model we apply to platforms.
How does this differ from your Cloud Operations service?
Cloud Operations is the AWS or Azure environment your applications run on: networking, IAM, scaling, monitoring, security baseline. Application Modernization is the application layer itself: the code, the data model, the integrations between systems. Many engagements use both services together.
Will you operate the application after you build it?
Yes. Application Modernization engagements transition into ongoing application operations under a managed services contract. The team that builds your application is the team that operates it. Same engineers, same architects, year over year.
We are stuck on an old stack. Do we have to rewrite everything?
Not necessarily. Sometimes the right answer is same-stack modernization (ASP.NET WebForms to ASP.NET Core, for example). Sometimes it is stack migration to something better suited to the work. We assess and recommend based on the application's actual constraints, not based on which stack we prefer.
What about third-party APIs and webhooks?
We design and operate API gateways, webhook receivers, and event-driven integrations. We treat them as production systems, not as one-off scripts. Versioning, monitoring, replay, retries, and idempotency are part of the design from the start.
Evaluating an application engagement?
Talk to the architect who would actually scope it.
30 minutes with the cloud or solution architect who would lead your engagement, not a sales rep. We will walk through your current application, the integrations involved, and what a modernization or rebuild would actually look like.