Case studies

Modernization, proven on real enterprise systems.

Recent projects delivered by our team, many through Vivify Japan. Clients are anonymized by sector, which is standard practice in the Japanese enterprise market. The systems and results are real.

Manufacturing Code Analyzer + Code Transformer

Modernizing a 20-year-old PowerBuilder system

The system had been in production for over 20 years. Documentation was incomplete, and the engineers who knew it best were retiring. Maintaining it on PowerBuilder was getting riskier every year.

Transformation: PowerBuilder → HTML5 web app
shorter migration period: 50%
ongoing maintenance cost: −40%

Automated analysis recovered accurate documentation from the source code, and the application was transformed into a standard HTML5 web application. The migration took half the usual time, and maintenance costs dropped 40%.

Financial services Code Analyzer

Mapping millions of lines of VB6 before migration

The codebase had grown to millions of lines, and no one could tell how far the impact of a change would reach. Updates and new features had stalled as a result.

Transformation: VB6 → complete dependency model
visibility into change impact: Full
to a complete migration plan: 2 mo

Code Analyzer mapped every dependency in the codebase, so the team could finally see the full impact of any change. With that visibility, they completed a concrete migration plan in two months.

Public sector Code Transformer

Converting Oracle PL/SQL to PostgreSQL for a cloud migration

A cloud migration required converting a large volume of Oracle PL/SQL stored procedures. Rewriting them by hand would not have fit the project timeline.

Transformation: Oracle PL/SQL → PostgreSQL
of the conversion automated: 95%
cloud migration kept on schedule: On time

Code Transformer converted the stored procedures to PostgreSQL-compatible code with 95% automation. Manual work was cut dramatically, and the cloud migration stayed on schedule.

Manufacturing Code Analyzer + Code Transformer

Moving a Biz/Browser application to HTML5

Vendor support for Biz/Browser was winding down, and the application needed to run in modern browsers before support ended.

Transformation: Biz/Browser → HTML5 web app
of the conversion automated: 90%+
modern-browser support: Full

More than 90% of the conversion was automated. The result is a standard HTML5 application that runs in every modern browser, with no dependency on the old platform.

Financial services Code Analyzer + Code Transformer

Converting hundreds of Nexaweb screens to HTML5

Nexaweb platform support was ending. The system, a large business application with hundreds of screens, had a fixed deadline to move to HTML5.

Transformation: Nexaweb → modern HTML5 architecture
of screens auto-converted: 100s
shorter migration period: 40%

The screens were converted automatically to a modern HTML5 architecture, and the migration period came in 40% shorter than planned. Nexaweb is also the platform we know best: Vivify was founded by the team behind it.

A track record across major enterprises

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