UniqueSoft: Next-Generation Legacy Modernization

“Doing more with less” and “adapt or die” are twin mantras that every CIO grapples with, and this is no different in telecom. As key business concerns have shifted away from physical plants and networks to Software as a Service (SaaS) innovation and Big Data, CIOs have to adapt to rapidly changing business conditions with increasingly less resources. Under pressure to solve IT and business problems alike, companies rely on software, old and new, to be agile. For many leaders, especially those inheriting legacy systems, this is a challenge. Legacy systems prove to be inflexible and cumbersome for today’s business expectations and needs. In the race to maximize value and business performance, firms struggle to modernize business-critical software assets to new platforms. With both business and customer stakes high, many efforts to modernize IT applications or technology environments put a CIO at significant risk of not just failing at the project, but also failing in their role. A new way of automating modernization projects will change this.

The team at UniqueSoft has developed a legacy modernization platform called D*Code that automates 90 percent of modernization tasks. Automation in legacy modernization is nothing new, but most second generation modernization tools only achieve automation levels of less than 30 percent, leaving CIOs to rely on error-prone, risk-increasing manual methods for 70 percent of their tasks. With the 90 percent automation afforded by third generation D*Code tool, CIOs are not only able to modernize quickly but to modernize accurately with a thousand-fold reduction in code defects compared to manual methods.

How can 90 percent automation be achieved with such accuracy? After several clients asked them for modernization assistance, UniqueSoft started exploring ways to help their customers solve expensive modernization problems. In their research, UniqueSoft discovered new applications for artificial intelligence (AI) and found that automation with AI extends well to rules-based engines. AI has a particular capability to identify the architecture and features of legacy applications. UniqueSoft then applied a Six Sigma development process to embed continuous quality improvement, and D*Code was born.