Application Modernization Insights

  In the rapidly evolving technology landscape, staying ahead requires not just incremental improvements but transformative leaps. As organizations strive to modernize legacy systems and migrate to more efficient and scalable architectures, the advent of Generative AI (GenAI) is poised to redefine the process. Over the past several weeks, our discussions have centered on how

Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) was a powerful tool in its time, but the technological landscape has evolved significantly. Modernizing EGL applications is crucial for businesses to remain competitive and agile. Here are the primary reasons to modernize: 1. Improve User Experience: Outdated interfaces: EGL applications often have dated user interfaces that are not intuitive or

Six Smalltalk applications with over two million lines of code were migrated, modernized, transformed, and made production-ready in parallel, expediting the project by seven years. The decision to move to Java Eighteen years ago, this company decided to have one programming language for their software applications: Java. All new product development would be based on

Modernization promises the benefits of a modern, cloud-based tech stack, including remaining competitive, innovating quickly, supporting mobile, and reducing security risks. Yet app modernization initiatives are fraught with complexity. Sadly, over 75% of modernization projects fail, according to multiple studies conducted on mainframe and application modernizations. Executives, architects, and technical teams must be aware of the

Brownfield refers to physical land requiring clean-up, upgrades, or development before leveraging the property for new purposes. Brownfield software development describes maintaining, upgrading, migrating, interacting with, or leveraging data from legacy applications. Most of the world’s developers work on and within brownfield applications and environments. While greenfield software development gets the industry buzz, it’s the

A few of our team members attended the Beyond the Beltway 2022 – Virtual Event hosted by the Center for Digital Government. It was an incredible opportunity to hear directly from state and local government CIOs and CSOs. They discussed the initiatives they are working on, the tech trends important to their region, and the

DevOps has revolutionized software engineering methodology by unifying development and operations to accelerate software delivery. The older-style waterfall approaches to greenfield application development are being put aside as DevOps principles of agility, iteration, continuous delivery, and automation take center stage. Modernization must deal with the challenge of transforming millions of lines of existing legacy code,

Last year Facebook announced TransCoder, a tool that converts code from one programming language to another. Like many companies, Facebook also has legacy code that runs critical features and functionality of their platform. They also have billions of active users. It’s no wonder they chose the automation approach for migrating their legacy code to more