# Freeing Legacy ERP Data Without a Risky Rip-and-Replace

How Elevance designed secure integration patterns to make legacy ERP data usable in cloud workflows and analytics, without a disruptive rip-and-replace.

**Sector:** UK trading business  |  **Scale:** Core ERP platform

**The challenge**

An established ERP platform remained central to operations but pre-dated modern APIs. Its data was difficult to use safely in cloud workflows and new digital services.

**The Elevance approach**

Elevance designed secure integration patterns that allowed approved data to be accessed without destabilising the core platform.

**What we delivered**

- Created secure database connectivity from Azure
- Separated read-only reporting and integration access
- Designed service and API patterns around legacy data
- Introduced logging, controlled credentials and error handling
- Protected core business logic while enabling new services

**Business outcomes**

- Extended the useful life of a critical ERP platform
- Enabled modern integrations without a disruptive replacement
- Improved access to operational data
- Reduced spreadsheet and file-based workarounds
- A bridge to future ERP modernisation

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Elevance is the business transformation division of Stiperstone Group, based in Telford, Shropshire. We modernise legacy IT estates into secure, cloud-first foundations for UK mid-market and enterprise organisations, measured against business outcomes rather than hours. Elevance is a consultancy that delivers transformation programmes and senior expertise; it is not an outsourced help desk and does not resell software licences.

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