Think of application modernization as a critical upgrade for your organization’s future. As technology advances, competition intensifies, and customer expectations evolve, legacy systems don’t just age, they become liabilities. Organizations that treat IT as a static cost rather than a strategic driver will fall behind, sacrificing innovation, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.
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The Real Obstacles to Modernizing Legacy Systems
1. Where the Money Goes: Big companies, especially those running early-2000s systems, spend up to 75% of their IT budget just keeping legacy apps alive. That’s money that could have gone toward innovation.
2. The Vanishing Playbook: Critical business logic is buried in old code, and the original developers aren’t around to explain it. Modernization becomes a guessing game.
3. Decoding the Past: Before building something new, you must figure out what the old system does. With little to no documentation, teams are forced to dig through tangled code to piece together the business’s logic. It’s slow, painstaking work.
4. Outdated Skill Set: Many legacy apps were built with tools and languages that aren’t widely taught anymore. Finding someone who knows how to fix or update them is like searching for a needle in a haystack.
A Smarter Way Forward with LIFTR.ai
In the digital economy, standing still is falling behind. Most organizations get stuck in the analysis phase for longer than expected, where adaptability without speed becomes wasted effort.
For a clear path to modernization, we launched LIFTR.ai, a platform built to help organizations transform aging software into secure, cloud-ready applications 10x faster than traditional methods, with up to 60% reduction in cost. Developed by the experts at Indium’s GenAI Lab, LIFTR.ai tackles the toughest modernization challenges head-on, especially for large enterprises wrestling with undocumented, mission-critical systems.
What Makes LIFTR.ai Different?
Most legacy modernization applications fail because they rely on slow, manual processes and incomplete system knowledge. Engineers waste months, sometimes years, deciphering outdated code, guessing at business logic, and wrestling with undocumented systems. LIFTR.ai changes that.
At its core, LIFTR.ai is an Agentic AI-powered modernization platform built to analyze, understand, and transform legacy systems faster and more accurately than human teams. It doesn’t just assist with modernization; it drives it.
How does it work?
Instead of throwing armies of engineers at the problem, LIFTR.ai deploys specialized AI agents that work as an expert modernization team. Each agent focuses on a different task, such as code analysis, architecture redesign, or cloud migration, and collaborates with the others to deliver a complete transformation.
Think of it as a senior software engineer with encyclopedic knowledge of legacy systems, reverse-engineering skills, and the ability to work at machine speed. It doesn’t just scan code; it understands the framework, dependencies, hidden business logic, etc.
Why It’s Better Than the Old Approach?
1. Deep System Intelligence:
Manual assessments by human experts are slow and prone to gaps. LIFTR.ai automates the discovery process, generating complete documentation and actionable insights without guesswork or blind spots.
2. Reverse Engineering, Simplified:
Most legacy systems have little documentation, and the original developers are long gone. LIFTR.ai deciphers even the most obscure codebases, extracting business logic and rebuilding missing documentation from scratch.
3. Redefining Speed & Precision:
We trained specialized GenAI agents that can accomplish what traditionally took human architects 12 weeks to complete Portfolio Assessment & Rationalization in just 12 hours. Combining deep architectural expertise with cutting-edge AI delivers unprecedented efficiency without sacrificing quality.
4. Human-in-the-Loop:
Modernization isn’t just about tech; it’s about business alignment. LIFTR.ai engages stakeholders in real time, ensuring technical decisions match actual business needs.
5. Full-System Insights in One Place:
Beyond just code, LIFTR.ai evaluates security risks, technical debt, dependencies, and architecture flaws. It doesn’t just tell you what’s in the system but what needs fixing.
6. Multi-Dimensional System Analysis:
Using specialized agentic AI, LIFTR.ai provides comprehensive insights, including feature analysis, security vulnerability assessment, technical debt evaluation, and software composition analysis, delivering both engineering and architectural perspectives in a single platform.
Modernizing Applications at Warp Speed
We know now that it’s expensive to keep aging applications alive. Between the Server setups and the constant upkeep, it’s like throwing cash into a black hole. There is also high dependency on a shrinking talent pool and exposure to serious cybersecurity vulnerabilities that invite costly breaches.
That’s precisely why we built LIFTR.ai. There are no band-aids, no half-measures, just a real solution for legacy tech transformation.
Example:
The application modernization strategy of a financial firm was to transform a 20-year-old system with over 2 million lines of PHP code using LIFTR.ai to complete analysis in just 8 hours (versus weeks). The result? 60% cost and time savings in the analysis phase alone. This isn’t an incremental improvement. It’s 1,000x faster and wiser. And just the beginning of their application modernization strategy.
