Today, many organizations rely on "black boxes": important (and critical) Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6) applications that run critical business logic but are "too critical to fail and too mysterious to fix". As original developers have abandoned these systems and documentation was lost, these systems are viewed as a huge "technical debt" which impedes cloud migration and contemporary security.

Our latest whitepaper addresses GenAI's ability to break the status quo and take an unknown codebase and make it into a new architecture that is modern and scalable.

Why Your Legacy Systems Are Holding You Back

It's not just about staying on legacy platforms; it's a risk to the business:

• Security & Compliance Gaps: Older systems may not have the ability to support modern TLS protocols or 64-bit architectures, making them susceptible to exploit.
• The Talent Scarcity: VB6 and ActiveX skills are becoming rare and hard to find, as developers become scarce in maintaining safe systems.
• Scalability Bottlenecks: Single-threaded execution models just don't scale to elastic cloud scaling or to the power of modern multi-core processors.
• Migration Risk: Without documented dependencies, moving to the cloud becomes an "edge-of-the-seat" experience for IT departments.

The GenAI Breakthrough: A New Path to Modernization

Manual audits are very costly and susceptible to mistakes. This whitepaper presents a three-step approach with Large Language Models to speed your path to the cloud:

• Automated Discovery: Discover the hidden dependency graph and DLL function calls for your system using GenAI and visualize the system architecture.
• Logical Extraction: Discover techniques to "decouple" core business rules from outdated UI frameworks, preparing your logic for stateless microservices.
• Blended Migration: Experience how a "Strangler Fig" approach to redeploy independent portions of the system as modern APIs can lower the risk of the operational impact of a "Big Bang" release.

What’s Inside the Blueprint?

Download the full whitepaper to learn more about:

• The Prompt Engineering Edge: How "Chain-of-Thought" prompting extracts implicit business logic that simple code conversion tools miss.
• A Component-Based Migration Table: Migration details by component for utility modules, complex business logic and legacy UI.
• Ensuring 100% Accuracy: Methodology to validate summaries generated by AI against actual runtime behavior called “Human-in-the-Loop”.
• Cost-Benefit Analysis: Why AI migration is likely to avoid the 200-300% cost overruns that are commonplace with IT modernization efforts.

" The operation expense of an LLM to document 1 million lines of code is just a small part of the cost of a manual 2 year audit.”

Don't let your intellectual property stay trapped in a black box. Transform your legacy debt into a modern asset today.

Download the Full Whitepaper.