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Is your system ready for AI-assisted modernisation?

Cassandra Wallace
27/4/2025

Modernising legacy systems isn’t just a technical challenge, it’s a strategic decision that impacts your entire organisation. And with AI now transforming how modernisation happens, the question isn’t if you should modernise, but how to do it faster, safer, and more intelligently.

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Modernising legacy systems: a smarter, safer path to reinvention

Cassandra Wallace
16/4/2025

This guide explains how Kiandra uses modern techniques including low-code platforms, GenAI-assisted discovery, and custom-code redevelopment, to help organisations safely reimagine, rebuild and replatform these legacy systems. It’s designed for CIOs, CTOs and enterprise IT leaders ready to act but unsure where to start.

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Selection Criteria for a Quality Software Company

Cassandra Wallace
9/12/2024

With so many options, how can you ensure you're making an informed decision and truly comparing apples to apples? Our selection criteria checklist is here to guide you. By asking the right questions and focusing on what truly matters, you can streamline the process and set your project up for success from the start.

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Preparing for your software project

Meghan Lodwick
27/2/2023

Preparation can be a major game-changer for a successful software development project. The process of identifying organisation needs, ROI and planning ahead will help you determine the value of your project and how you can contribute to its success.

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Designing for accessibility series

Meghan Lodwick
24/1/2023

Accessibility is an important part of web design and software development. We have created a series of resources to help make your digital elements more accessible to all.

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Designng for users who are blind, have low vision or are colour blind - a Kiandra series on accessible design in software development

Designing for blind, low vision or colour blind

Cassie Wallace
20/11/2022

With 4.5% of the global population experiencing colour blindness, 4% experiencing low vision, and another 0.6% being blind – visual difficulties with using the web are quite prevalent.

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Designing for people who are mobility-imparied - a Kiandra series of accessibility guidelines for sofrware development

Designing-for-mobility-impairments

Cassie Wallace
12/11/2022

When people are mobility-impaired, meaning their gross motor skills are limited, their ability to navigate the technological world is impacted.

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Designing for users with dyslexia - a Kiandra series on how develop software with accessible design

Designing for users with dyslexia

Cassie Wallace
2/11/2022

Dyslexia is estimated to affect some 10% of the Australian population. Although this may be a conservative estimate as many people are left undiagnosed.

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Designing for users who are deaf or hard of hearing - a Kiandra series on accessible design

Designing for users that are deaf and hard-of-hearing

Cassie Wallace
27/10/2022

In Australia, 1 in 6 people currently experience hearing loss—the Australian government expects the number of people with a hearing impairment to double to an estimated 7.8 million people in 2060

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