Identify Maintenance Needs & an Application Modernization Strategy

Don’t let your system knowledge walk out of the door. Use AI and automation to document your applications to develop a current understanding of them. Analyze that information to maintain your systems or develop an app modernization strategy.

Applications evolve with changes in legislative and business policies. These updates rarely get documented except in the memory of support personnel. Hence, when these employees leave or retire, the “brain drain” is significant and becomes irreplaceable when substitute personnel have little to no knowledge of the technologies in which these applications have been developed. This increases the cost and risk of keeping software updated, managing technical debt, and moving forward with rationalization and modernization initiatives when needed.

With Intellisys You Can

Generate

current application documentation using 100% automation

Train

incoming support personnel

Identify

areas of optimization to manage technical debt and vulnerabilities

Break up

app modernization budgets by starting with an application assessment

Analyze

the documentation to simplify maintenance  and make informed decisions on an app modernization strategy

Protecting your organization from system knowledge loss

As the “baby boomer” generation approaches retirement age, CIOs and IT decision-makers are beginning to see the knowledge gaps that their departures create.

Documentation Artifacts That You Can Generate and Update for Training & Analysis

Reports related to logistics, inventory, complexity, dead and redundant code.
Drill-down diagrams.
Database model, database activity and entity relationship details.
Logic representation in multiple formats including in a neutral language that any programmer can understand.
Ability to plan out rationalization and modernization initiatives using assessment features and outputs.

Analysis Features That Will Enhance Your Technical Team's Knowledge and Productivity

Ability to identify code that will be affected in response to legislative and business policy changes.
Ability to generate reports that detail the use of variables along with the values they are assigned during execution.
Ability to trace data structures.
Access to a multitude of search options for focused analysis.
Ability to plan out rationalization and modernization initiatives using assessment features and outputs.

Detailed application analysis: the key driver for modernizing systems

Understanding and analyzing your legacy applications is crucial for any organization’s digital success and long-term sustainability. See how detailed application analysis helps drive efficient and sustainable application transformation.

Case Studies for Application Assessment

Deloitte Consulting LLP

Delivers application assessments for multiple clients enabling them to quickly and accurately decide on a cloud strategy.

Generated assessment reports from 500K-1M lines of code per month to date.

BMI

Obtained a comprehensive understanding of applications written in COBOL and C# in preparation for modernization.

Generated documentation artifacts for 2.8MM lines of code across 3 different programming languages.

State Department of Transportation

Created enterprise-level repository for applications written in multiple programming languages.

Generated documentation for 1.65MM lines of code in 5 months.

Dive deeper into Intellisys' capabilities that support Application Assessment

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FAQ

What can be done for undocumented systems when the original developers are gone?

When undocumented systems face a “brain drain” due to the departure or retirement of original developers and support personnel, organizations can leverage AI and automation to safeguard critical system knowledge through fully automated and comprehensive documentation and knowledge artifacts and traceability and impact analysis features.

By deploying automated assessment tools, organizations secure themselves against permanent institutional knowledge loss while reducing the risks and costs inherent in legacy maintenance. For more details see Documentation & Analysis.

How can AI help understand or explain older systems?

AI and automation help organizations understand and explain older systems by converting undocumented code into structured, readable information and moving quickly while mitigating manual risks. AI-augmented tools like EvolveWare’s Intellisys platform facilitate this through:

100% automated documentation and visualization
Translation of logic written in legacy languages to a neutral language understandable by modern developers
Deep structural and impact analysis including the ability to highlight sections of code likely to contain business rules, the ability to trace data structures and variable flow, and more

What are all the components needed to have a comprehensive understanding of a system?

Understanding a legacy system—especially where original knowledge is lost—requires a variety of information and the ability to analyze that information. This includes:

Technical Documentation: Visual diagrams (data flows, entity relationships), code inventory/complexity reports (including dead code), and logic represented in plain language, flowcharts, and decision tables.
Functional Analysis: Data/variable tracing across execution, plus focused search tools for targeted code investigation.
Business Context: Mapping code sections to ones that contain legislative/policy requirements. General understanding of the policies that are being implemented by the system in question.
Strategic Planning: Tools/features that allow you to use the above information to guide modernization decisions.

Together, these inputs and analysis tools help organizations recover system knowledge and build a single source of truth across applications. The Intellisys Platform provides you with tools to do exactly this.

Once documentation has been created, what are example ways in which the information can be used?

Once documentation has been created through an automated assessment, the resulting information can be used in several strategic and operational ways to maintain and evolve legacy systems:

Knowledge Preservation: Serves as a permanent record that prevents “brain drain” when key employees leave.
Onboarding and Training: Acts as a critical resource to train incoming support personnel
Operational Maintenance: Simplifies ongoing maintenance by allowing teams to analyze documentation and make informed decisions regarding system updates.
System Optimization: Helps identify areas of optimization to manage technical debt, address vulnerabilities, reduce overall complexity and manage the application portfolio.
Strategic Modernization Planning: Assists in deciding which transformation path to pursue and how to break up modernization budgets and plans into manageable phases.

Identify Maintenance Needs & an Application Modernization Strategy

With Intellisys You Can

Generate

Train

Identify

Break up

Analyze

Protecting your organization from system knowledge loss

Documentation Artifacts That You Can Generate and Update for Training & Analysis

Analysis Features That Will Enhance Your Technical Team's Knowledge and Productivity

Detailed application analysis: the key driver for modernizing systems

Case Studies for Application Assessment

Deloitte Consulting LLP

Delivers application assessments for multiple clients enabling them to quickly and accurately decide on a cloud strategy.

Generated assessment reports from 500K-1M lines of code per month to date.

BMI

Obtained a comprehensive understanding of applications written in COBOL and C# in preparation for modernization.

Generated documentation artifacts for 2.8MM lines of code across 3 different programming languages.

State Department of Transportation

Created enterprise-level repository for applications written in multiple programming languages.

Generated documentation for 1.65MM lines of code in 5 months.

Dive deeper into Intellisys' capabilities that support Application Assessment

Overview of the Intellisys Platform

Documentation & Analysis

Ready to take the next step? See how Intellisys also facilitates:

Application Rationalization

Application Modernization

FAQ

We’d love to learn more about your business and how we can help you.

Identify Maintenance Needs & an Application Modernization Strategy

With Intellisys You Can

Generate

Train

Identify

Break up

Analyze

Protecting your organization from system knowledge loss

Documentation Artifacts That You Can Generate and Update for Training & Analysis

Analysis Features That Will Enhance Your Technical Team's Knowledge and Productivity

Detailed application analysis: the key driver for modernizing systems

Case Studies for Application Assessment

Deloitte Consulting LLP

Delivers application assessments for multiple clients enabling them to quickly and accurately decide on a cloud strategy.Generated assessment reports from 500K-1M lines of code per month to date.

BMI

Obtained a comprehensive understanding of applications written in COBOL and C# in preparation for modernization.Generated documentation artifacts for 2.8MM lines of code across 3 different programming languages.

State Department of Transportation

Created enterprise-level repository for applications written in multiple programming languages.Generated documentation for 1.65MM lines of code in 5 months.

Dive deeper into Intellisys' capabilities that support Application Assessment

Overview of the Intellisys Platform

Documentation & Analysis

Ready to take the next step? See how Intellisys also facilitates:

Application Rationalization

Application Modernization

FAQ

We’d love to learn more about your business and how we can help you.

Intellisys: Supported Technologies

Delivers application assessments for multiple clients enabling them to quickly and accurately decide on a cloud strategy.

Generated assessment reports from 500K-1M lines of code per month to date.

Obtained a comprehensive understanding of applications written in COBOL and C# in preparation for modernization.

Generated documentation artifacts for 2.8MM lines of code across 3 different programming languages.

Created enterprise-level repository for applications written in multiple programming languages.

Generated documentation for 1.65MM lines of code in 5 months.

Overview of the Intellisys Platform