Every small business has one. A crumbling VB6 or FoxPro app that’s been “temporarily” running the company since the Clinton administration. The guy who built it retired in 2011. Nobody has the password. It only runs on one computer in the back office that everyone’s afraid to restart, because if it doesn’t come back up, so help us, so does the business.
This isn’t nostalgia. This is a horror movie with a P&L statement.
Every Halloween, we like to remind business owners: the scariest thing in your office isn’t a costume. It’s that beige box in the corner that’s one hard drive failure away from taking your order processing, your inventory, and your customer records down with it. No support. No documentation. No exorcist on retainer.
The good news — we don’t do séances, but we do rescues. Keene Systems has spent nearly four decades modernizing exactly this kind of walking-dead software into secure, modern web applications your whole team can actually use, from anywhere, without summoning the one person who “just knows how it works.”
If your legacy system is giving you nightmares, let’s talk before it flatlines for good.
Book a 20-minute call with our CEO, Lance Keene: https://keenesystems.com/booklance
