Modernize your systems

You want to leverage your unique legacy systems.

We first help you see your systems reliably.

Then we help you change your systems confidently.

See our approach in a large case study

Our approach is best seen in practice. Lifeware is a pioneer in software development and they leverage their technical excellence as a business competitive advantage. Today, they employ our approach and open source technology to build thousands of contextual tools that accelerate understanding and change in their 35M+ LOC system.

Read about the case study

Watch Tudor Girba talk about how Lifeware steers their large system

opportunity

Leverage the dormant value of your legacy systems

In a world where everyone moves slow, moving your systems faster than your competition helps you exploit the speed as a business competitive advantage. Your systems are already valuable encoding years or decades of business knowledge in executable code. Inside them there lies larger potential that you can exploit by investing in your ability to understand and change.

challenge

Do your migrations finish late... do they ever finish?

If your migrations seem to never finish, you are not alone. A recent study shows that only 26% of migrations finish successfully. It's a systemic problem. And systemic problems require systematic solutions. The root cause is the very approach to understanding those systems: developers spend the largest chunk of the development budget trying to manually read through code. But since systems are too large to be read comprehensively, most information is inferred, leading to belief-based rather than fact-based decisions.

solution

Answer system questions fast

Start with a system question.

Answer it by building contextual tools fast, often in minutes.

Tools help you understand how things fit together in a system model.

As the model expands, you get to ask more questions.

Repeat until confident to make decisions.

result

Strategic adaptability

Decisions accelerate. You no longer wait on slow, uncertain investigations.

Costs drop. Risk shrinks. You act on facts, not assumptions.

Adaptability soars. Systems evolve at the speed of your business.

See clearly before you change

A manually drawn picture about an existing system does not depict the system. It depicts the author's beliefs about the system and should not be the basis for any decision. Instead, make it the job of the system to draw itself. This applies to any aspect in a system, including architecture, data pipeline, or domain workflows.

Manually drawn systems-to-database diagram

From manually drawn beliefs

Generated systems-to-database visualization

To system-generated facts

A typical modernization journey

1

Identify the business quantifiable system problem

3 x 1h (free)

We work with business and engineering to identify the system problem.

We then link it to a business quantifiable problem to ensure sustained investment.

2

Assess the path to change

4-8 weeks

We explain your system accurately in record time and equip you to decide the best way forward.

You get a engineering tools dedicated to your system that give you accurate views to help you decide the course of action.

Optionally: We train hands-on one change agent.

3

Steer the actual migration

8+ weeks

We work with you to transform the system.

We either transform it in parallel to your development, or we guide you to change it piecemeal.

You do not slow down development even in the short term.

What people say about us

We wanted to move a component that is considered off limits… We gave it to them … How did you guys do it in such a short amount of time? … We believe in your methodology.

Chris Thorgrimsson

Senior Technical Director, LamResearch.com

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As Saloodo was transforming our MVP to a market ready product, feenk helped us with software assessments that shed accurate insight into the system that helped steer its development into the right direction towards building a robust, extendable and scaleable platform that could adapt to business requirements much faster.

Elaine Tan

CTO, saloodo.com

While thinking of a common code base for our software products we were going in circles not knowing where to start. The feenk team supported us not only with analysis tools but more importantly by coaching our teams how and where to start the restructuring and how this could become a feasible project to tackle. First steps have been taken to do analysis-based refactorings while still delivering features in parallel. We still have a long way to go but the initial hurdles are overcome!

Jan Biermann

Head R&D, dbaudio.com

Do we use AI?

Yes, but what sets us apart is that we solve hard problems.

Do we work in your industry?
What about your specific technology?

We probably do. If not, we'll adapt quickly.

We worked with various domains including insurance, transportation, hospitality, semiconductors, data privacy, retail, automotive, and acoustics. And we worked with systems written in a variety of languages and technologies like Java/SpringBoot, C#, JS/Angular/React, Python, PHP, Smalltalk, C++, Qt, Delphi, COBOL, SQL, PEGA and even proprietary languages.

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