Anglian Home Improvements, a leading UK home improvement company with over 50 years of service, relied on deeply customized legacy applications for customer order management, BOM creation, and end-to-end delivery. These critical applications ran on unsupported systems and undocumented infrastructure, posing a security risk and a compliance barrier for Cyber Essentials certification—a requirement for government contracts.
Cyber Essentials meant we had to migrate off legacy servers and desktops to achieve the certification.
Their internal IT team faced:
Anglian selected appCURE Studio due to its ability to enable fast, low-risk application migration through runtime capture technology.
Key Features of appCURE Studio Applied:
Capture of running applications without source media or documentation
Conversion into Microsoft standard deployment formats (e.g., MSIX)
Seamless packaging and provisioning to modern platforms
Compatibility with cloud, virtual, and physical deployments
This enabled the Anglian IT team to:
Move applications to Windows 10 and Server 2019 within days
Deploy to the Citrix Cloud platform
Avoid time-intensive manual packaging and remediation steps
Preserve application functionality and user workflows
When we first saw appCURE, we thought it was so unbelievable it must be magic. But when we saw our application running on Windows 10, we knew it was real.
The engagement with appCURE enabled rapid modernization, improved compliance, and seamless continuity of business-critical applications. The table below highlights the primary technical and operational outcomes.
| Metric | Result |
|---|---|
| Certification Achieved | Fully compliant with Cyber Essentials |
| Application Uplift | Legacy apps now run securely on modern OS and infrastructure |
| User productivity sustained | No disruption to daily operations or customer service delivery |
| Migration Timeline | Application transformation executed in days rather than months |
| Strategic Enablement | appCURE integral to application lifecycle modernization |
Agility: appCURE Studio is central to Anglian’s app packaging and delivery strategy.
Future-readiness: Preparations are underway for Office 365 and cloud-based service integrations.
Partnership Assurance: Ongoing support and advisory services from appCURE’s experienced engineering team.
As a business, we need to streamline our application packaging process, and appCURE Studio will be the foundation of this process.
Anglian Home Improvements successfully modernized its business-critical applications by leveraging appCURE Studio’s runtime capture technology, eliminating the need for extensive redevelopment or deep legacy system knowledge. This approach enabled a seamless migration to Windows 10 and Server 2019, meeting stringent Cyber Essentials compliance requirements while safeguarding user productivity.
By decoupling application migration from traditional packaging constraints, appCURE provided a fast, low-risk transition path aligned with Anglian’s operational and security objectives. This project’s success not only resolved immediate infrastructure challenges but also laid the foundation for a sustainable application lifecycle strategy.
As appCURE Studio becomes a core component in Anglian’s modernization efforts, the organization is now better positioned to scale, adapt, and manage its IT environment in line with evolving business needs and future technology shifts.
