A SQUADRA, a technology consultancy specialized in supporting companies in their digital transformation journeys, announces the launch of Genius, a multipurpose platform driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and developed to optimize workflow and accelerate the development cycle of platforms and digital solutions that the company creates for clients. With an investment of R$ 20 million, supported by BNDES, Genius brings a structured, integrated, secure approach with a focus on generating value for the client’s core business in various sectors such as finance, telecommunications, utilities, logistics, among others. Combining advanced technology and human experience, Genius offers a collaborative and intelligent environment that helps SQUADRA experts turn complexity into simplicity in projects designed for companies.
Collaboratively and self-guided, the platform leads multiple projects simultaneously, such as creating modern solutions, modularizing systems with evolving architecture, reducing application complexity, among others, integrating different user profiles such as designers, developers, architects, and managers, creating a conversational digital environment that organizes and accelerates the improvement of the digital business ecosystem.
The solution will be used in different areas and is already driving legacy system modernization projects carried out by SQUADRA through Legacy Modernization by Genius, which uses intelligent tools to extract value from an organization’s legacy applications, document the implicit knowledge of these systems, and reintegrate it in a useful, accessible, and modern way in new applications.
“Many companies today were born in the digital world, but most still live under the pressure of legacy and avoid touching these assets for fear of operational failures, which also hinders innovation,” says Romulo Cioffi, Executive Director of Artificial Intelligence, Innovation, and Operations at SQUADRA. According to the executive, the decision to start applying Genius in legacy modernization is based on the high degree of criticality and complexity of these systems. “We are offering a secure and efficient way for technological modernization, which supports the growth of corporations, updating technologies, reorganizing application structures, and maintaining business rules preserved with a gain of up to 40% in productivity compared to traditional modernization methods,” he says.
Through a structured process of semantic analysis, Legacy Modernization by Genius maps the entire legacy ecosystem of companies, identifying where improvements can be made, and delivers responses that align with the client’s core business, driving precision in processes and decisions, reducing errors, and increasing the quality of the results of the ongoing initiative. Each project generates a set of updated digital information that serves as a basis for future evolutions, allowing systematic knowledge to become reusable assets to reorganize complex architectures and make them simpler. All while keeping the business logic intact, and the data 100% internal, updated, governed, and secure.
The Genius Legacy Modernization solution uses its network of specialized smart tools that work together to accelerate migration to more modern environments and applications with precision. Among the features are automated code analysis, which identifies obsolete code segments and areas for improvement; business rule extraction, which retrieves the implicit knowledge that supports critical processes; automated test generation and simulations, ensuring that changes do not compromise operations; and code refactoring, which reorganizes and simplifies complex segments without altering their original function.
Additionally, the solution also includes dependency analysis, including modules, functions, services, and data that need to be integrated during execution, as well as generating technical documentation. Highly customizable for each client, these tools are configured and created to fit each organization’s technology. With the solution, SQUADRA promotes hyper-productivity through the automation of repetitive tasks, process optimization, and intelligent resource utilization, providing more operational efficiency, lower costs, faster delivery, and increased reliability.
The Legacy Modernization by Genius is already being used in various projects. In the logistics segment, for example, SQUADRA used the solution to conduct a thorough analysis of the legacy system responsible for managing the train circulation of a client. The solution was essential to explore the existing code with advanced features such as semantic analysis. This made it possible to quickly identify the main concepts, flows, and operational rules, leaving the team fully prepared to securely and accurately carry out the migration to a more modern environment. This approach accelerated the understanding of the legacy, optimizing the analysis time and enabling greater clarity in the migration planning, allowing the code generation that would take six months to be completed in 30 nights.
“We believe that Artificial Intelligence only makes sense when applied purposefully, guided by a real business problem, and not by technological fads. That’s why we follow the principle of ‘Value First, powered by AI’, guiding our decisions with a focus on impact and concrete value,” says Alcebíades Araújo, AI Specialist at SQUADRA.
