WHY COMPANIES CALL US

Nobody replaces a working system because they want to.

Something forces the question.

A retirement. A failed audit. A machine that can no longer be replaced. Eight situations account for nearly every call Salem takes.

Salem Automation works on both sides of the line — the platform being left behind and the one being moved to. Working both sides is what makes it possible to keep production running while the modernization decision gets made properly.

Platform risk

The system itself has become the risk

Situation 01

Hardware end of life

VAX, Alpha, and other legacy systems with no spares left and no vendor to call.

Situation 02

Disaster recovery and continuity

A single production machine with no test environment and no tested restore.

Situation 03

Aging automation and control systems

Control and information layers that have outlived their support, their integrator, or their ability to share data.

External pressure

Someone outside operations set the deadline

Situation 04

Retiring expertise

One person understands the system. No documentation, no successor, a date on the calendar.

Situation 05

Audit and compliance findings

Unsupported operating systems flagged by a regulator, an insurer, or a new parent company.

Situation 06

Operating system and custom application support

Operating systems and in-house applications that no vendor will support and no one on staff can maintain.

Forward path

The system works, but the business needs more from it

Situation 07

Legacy data access

Decades of operational history the rest of the business cannot reach or analyze.

Situation 08

Stalled modernization projects

A replacement that overran, or a migration nobody is willing to sign off on.

Still operating · already modernizing

Every path here starts with keeping production running.

If more than one situation applies, that is normal. Describe the environment and Salem will tell you which one to solve first.

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