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From strategy and architecture to implementation

Services

From strategy and architecture to implementation

Services

We are your partner for the holistic optimization of your legacy platform.

Plan

A future-proof mainframe platform strategy

Together, we develop a tailored modernization strategy that reflects your specific needs.

Plan: developing a tailored modernization strategy

As-is analysis

Our as-is analysis lays the foundation: we take a holistic view of your organizational structure, technologies and processes, keep costs in focus and identify optimization potential. We pay particular attention to knowledge management to preserve critical expertise for the long term.

Target vision

Your target vision is built for the future: we increase your agility, promote platform independence and make your systems cloud-ready. At the same time, sustainable staff development strengthens your capabilities over the long term and secures the transformation.

Communication and stakeholder management

Clear communication with management is key to success: we present analyses, recommendations and interim results in a way that is tailored to each audience, creating a solid basis for well-founded decisions.

Implementation planning

Together, we define and prioritize measures and validate solutions through proofs of concept. Robust business cases provide a clear basis for decision-making, and active change management ensures success.

Design

Modular,
platform-independent &
cloud-ready

We design flexible IT architectures that deliver short-term cost savings and long-term platform independence.

Design: designing flexible IT architectures

Modularization

To make your modernization a success, we develop a structured implementation plan focused on decoupling and future readiness. Existing systems are broken down into application domains and technically decoupled, and legacy components are selectively encapsulated. This allows us to identify stateless services and lay the foundation for a flexible, scalable target architecture.

Platform independence

Open standards, open source and modern data management lay the foundation for independence and the efficient use of your information – including the optional use of Java on the mainframe and interfaces to custom software – to establish a sustainable IT landscape.

Hybrid cloud architecture

We gradually replace proprietary technologies with portable standard solutions such as containers and microservices, and develop cloud-native solutions based on OpenShift and Kubernetes. Modern CI/CD pipelines increase efficiency, while remaining mainframe components can be seamlessly integrated into cloud environments.

Build

Application development – tailored and targeted

We support you in application development and in delivering your implementation projects – scalable through the use of AI.

Build: delivering implementation projects

Source code analysis and requirements specification

Our source code analysis creates transparency about systems that have grown over time and the business logic they contain. We analyze relationships and dependencies and extract the embedded business functionality in an understandable form. The result is a reliable requirements specification for a safe and efficient modernization.

Coding

Using modern re-engineering, we transform your legacy systems into a future-ready IT landscape. Legacy code is evolved, optimized and modernized. For secure deployment, we establish stable and reproducible delivery processes.

Testing

By designing test cases and executing and documenting tests, we ensure that functionality is error-free and meets all requirements.

Change management & project management

With targeted change management, we guide your organization through a successful modernization project in a structured way. We ensure clear communication and involve all relevant stakeholders. At the same time, we manage the project efficiently and ensure sustainable implementation.

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With LegacAI, our own GenAI tool, we increase quality and reduce the time required for legacy transformations

  • Shifting a significant share of business analysis effort to our AI tool
  • Interactive research into implemented functionality
  • Automated generation of documentation
  • Derivation of system-wide semantics from legacy code
  • Knowledge extraction and documentation: business documentation, requirements and data flow diagrams that make implicit legacy knowledge usable again
  • Industrialized code transformation: our hybrid architecture turns approved requirements into modern, clean code, e.g. in Java.
  • Quality assurance: test case generation to verify the functional correctness of the transformed artifacts.
More about LegacAI
Prof. Dr. Philipp Brune and Dennis Seifert, founders of SQ Solutions

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