Migrate an entire application portfolio,
without an army of developers.

When you’re retiring a legacy platform, consolidating after an acquisition, or modernizing at scale, GW Apps gives your team the speed and control to migrate dozens of apps — in days, not months

Three situations where enterprises choose GW Apps

Platform Retirement

Your organization is sunsetting a legacy platform — Lotus Notes, FileMaker, a custom-built system, or another tool that’s become costly to maintain. You have dozens of apps that need a new home.

Acquisition & Consolidation

You’ve acquired a business unit running on a different platform. Rather than support two environments, you need to migrate their application portfolio to your existing standard — fast.

Platform Evaluation

The pressure to modernize is creating an opportunity to do things differently. Instead of rebuilding on the same model, you’re evaluating whether a no-code platform could handle your app portfolio at scale.

In all three cases, the challenge is the same: you have many applications to migrate or rebuild, limited developer bandwidth, and pressure to move quickly without sacrificing security or governance.

Built for volume. Governed from day one.

Most no-code platforms are built for individual teams building individual apps. GW Apps is different — it was designed from the ground up as an enterprise-grade platform, which means the things that matter most at scale are already built in.

One platform. Any business process.

GW Apps handles the full range of internal business applications — approvals, portals, case management, asset tracking, HR workflows, compliance forms, and more. Whatever your legacy platform was doing, GW Apps can replicate and improve it.

IT leads. Everyone can build.

Your IT team owns the platform — security policies, access controls, data governance, and architecture decisions. In many organizations, IT also leads the building itself. In others, IT sets the framework and business teams build within it. GW Apps supports both models. Either way, IT is in control of what gets built, how it's governed, and who can do what.

Works with Google Workspace and Microsoft 365.

GW Apps integrates with both Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 — so whether your organization uses Gmail or Outlook, Google Drive or SharePoint, your teams can work the way they already do. The underlying platform runs on Google Cloud, which means enterprise-grade infrastructure, security, and scalability regardless of your collaboration stack. For organizations fully standardized on Google Workspace, the integration runs even deeper — but Microsoft shops are equally well served.

Audit trails and enterprise security — standard.

Every action is logged. Role-based access control, record-level permissions, and full audit history are built into every app on the platform — not add-ons you configure per app.

Traditional Approach

With GW Apps

How a large-scale migration works with GW Apps

We’ve worked with organizations migrating 10, 30, even 50+ applications. The pattern that works:

Start with an app inventory. Categorize by complexity, business criticality, and user volume. GW Apps works best for structured workflow apps — approvals, requests, tracking, portals. We help you identify which apps are strong candidates and sequence the migration.

Counterintuitively, we recommend starting with a complex, high-value application — not a simple one. A complex pilot stress-tests the platform against your real requirements and gives you genuine confidence that GW Apps can handle your portfolio. A simple pilot only tells you it can handle simple things.

At this stage, if you’re considering having the GW Apps professional services team lead the migration rather than building in-house, we’ll ask for three sample applications to scope the work: one complex app, one medium-complexity app, and one simple app. This gives us what we need to produce a meaningful effort estimate across your full portfolio — so you can make an informed build-vs.-buy decision before committing.

Once the pattern is established, migration velocity increases significantly. Business teams can take ownership of their own apps with minimal IT involvement. Apps that took months to build on the old platform are rebuilt in days.

As apps go live on GW Apps, the old platform is progressively decommissioned. You end up with a single governed environment, consistent user experience, and a platform your team already knows how to use.

The GW Apps platform has been a very valuable tool to convert our paperless processes online. It has allowed us to migrate various Lotus Notes applications. The platform allows us to develop applications without the need for developers — it has added a lot of value to our IT business processes.

What organizations typically migrate to GW Apps

GW Apps is particularly well-suited as a destination platform for:

Acquired-company applications on platforms you are discontinuing
SharePoint workflow solutions that are over-engineered for the use case
Aging web apps built on outdated frameworks with no clear owner
Custom-built intranet apps that are expensive to maintain
Lotus Notes / IBM Domino applications (approvals, portals, case management, directory apps)
FileMaker databases used for internal operations or client-facing workflows
Microsoft Access databases that have grown beyond their original scope

GW Apps is not a general-purpose development platform. It is purpose-built for structured internal business applications — forms, workflows, approvals, portals, and reporting. If that describes your legacy app portfolio, it is almost certainly a strong fit.

Google Workspace or Microsoft 365,
GW Apps works with both.

GW Apps is built on Google Cloud infrastructure, but your users work in the tools they already use — whether that’s Google Workspace or Microsoft 365. You don’t need to change your collaboration stack to adopt GW Apps.

Works with Gmail, Outlook, Google Drive, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams for notifications and file handling
Single sign-on available through Google or your existing identity provider
Data is stored and processed on Google Cloud — enterprise-grade security and compliance regardless of your collaboration platform
Available on the Google Cloud Marketplace — simplifies procurement for Google shops; standard contract available for all others
For organizations fully standardized on Google Workspace, native integration runs even deeper — but Microsoft environments are fully supported

Let's talk about your application portfolio

If you’re facing a platform migration — whether planned or triggered by an acquisition — the most useful first step is a conversation with our solutions team. We’ll ask about your portfolio, your timeline, and your constraints, and give you an honest assessment of where GW Apps fits.