SQUADRA invests R$ 20 million in the Genius AI platform to accelerate digital transformation projects.

THE SQUADRA (This is incomplete. "Squadra" in Portuguese can refer to a number of things. Please provide the context.)A technology consulting firm specializing in supporting companies on their digital transformation journeys announces the launch of Genius, a multi-purpose platform powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Developed to optimize workflows and accelerate the development cycle of digital platforms and solutions the company creates for its clients. With a R$10 million investment, supported by BNDES, Genius offers a structured, integrated, secure approach focused on generating value for the core business of clients across various sectors, including finance, telecommunications, utilities, logistics, and others. Combining advanced technology and human expertise, Genius provides a collaborative and intelligent environment that helps SQUADRA specialists transform complexity into simplicity in the projects undertaken for businesses.

Collaboratively and self-guided, the platform manages multiple simultaneous projects, such as creating modern solutions, modularizing systems with evolutionary architecture, reducing application complexity, and more. It integrates diverse user profiles, including designers, developers, architects, and managers, and creates a conversational digital environment that organizes and accelerates the improvement of the business's digital ecosystem.

The solution will be used across multiple fronts and is already driving legacy system modernization projects conducted by SQUADRA through Legacy Modernization by Genius. This approach uses intelligent tools to extract value from organizations' legacy applications, document the implicit knowledge embedded within those systems, and reintegrate it in a useful, accessible, and modern way into new applications.

"Many companies today were born in the digital world, but most still live under the pressure of legacy systems and avoid touching them 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 apply Genius to legacy modernization is based on the high degree of criticality and complexity of these systems. "We are offering a safe and efficient way to modernize technology, supporting corporate growth by updating technologies, reorganizing application structures, and maintaining business rules while achieving up to 40% in productivity gains compared to traditional modernization methods," he says.

Through a structured semantic analysis process, Legacy Modernization by Genius maps the entire legacy ecosystem of businesses, identifying areas for improvement and delivering solutions tailored to the client's core business, boosting process precision and decision-making, reducing errors, and enhancing the quality of the developing initiative's results. Each project generates a set of updated digital information that serves as the foundation for future evolutions, allowing systemic knowledge to become reusable assets for reorganizing complex architectures and simplifying them. All of this while maintaining intact business logic and ensuring internal data is 100% secure, up-to-date, governed, and protected.

Legacy Modernization by Genius leverages its network of specialized intelligent tools, working together, to precisely accelerate migration to more modern environments and applications. Features include automated code analysis, identifying obsolete sections and areas for improvement; business rule extraction, recovering the implicit knowledge supporting critical processes; automated test and simulation generation, ensuring changes do not compromise operations; and code refactoring, reorganizing and simplifying complex sections without altering their original function.

Furthermore, the solution also includes dependency analysis, encompassing modules, functions, services, and data requiring integration during execution, as well as generating technical documentation. Highly customizable for each client, these tools are configured and created specifically according to each organization's technology. With this solution, SQUADRA promotes hyperproductivity through the automation of repetitive tasks, process optimization, and intelligent resource utilization, providing greater operational efficiency, lower costs, faster delivery speeds, and increased reliability.

Genius's Legacy Modernization is already being used in various projects. For example, in the logistics sector, SQUADRA used the solution to conduct a thorough analysis of the legacy system responsible for managing a client's train circulation. The solution was crucial for exploring the existing code with advanced features such as semantic analysis. This allowed for the agile identification of key concepts, operational flows, and rules, fully preparing the team to safely and accurately migrate to a more modern environment. This approach accelerated understanding of the legacy system, optimizing analysis time and enabling greater clarity in migration planning, allowing code generation that would have taken six months to be completed in 30 nights.

"We believe artificial intelligence only makes sense when applied with purpose, driven by a real business problem, not by technological trends. That's why we follow the principle of 'Value First, powered by AI,' guiding our decisions with a focus on impact and tangible value," says Alcebíades Araújo, AI Specialist at SQUADRA.