The Genius platform is multipurpose and brings together a network of intelligent tools for developing digital solutions, such as modernizing legacy systems.
THE SQUAD, a technology consultancy specializing in supporting companies in their digital transformation journeys, announces the launch of Genius, a multipurpose platform powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and designed to optimize workflow and accelerate the development cycle of digital platforms and solutions the company creates for its clients. With an investment of R$1.4 billion, supported by BNDES (Brazilian Development Bank), Genius brings a structured, integrated, and secure approach focused on generating value for the core business of clients in various sectors, such as finance, telecommunications, utilities, logistics, and others. Combining advanced technology and human expertise, Genius offers a collaborative and intelligent environment that helps SQUADRA's experts transform complexity into simplicity in the projects they develop for companies.
In a collaborative and self-guided manner, the platform manages multiple projects simultaneously, such as the creation of modern solutions, the modularization of systems with evolutionary architecture, the reduction of application complexity, among others, integrating different user profiles, such as designers, developers, architects, and managers, and creating a conversational digital environment that organizes and accelerates the improvement of the business' digital ecosystem.
The solution will be used on different fronts 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 organizations' legacy applications, document the implicit knowledge of these 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 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 begin applying Genius to modernize legacy systems is based on the high degree of criticality and complexity of these systems. "We are offering a safe and efficient way to modernize technology that supports corporate growth by updating technologies, reorganizing application structures, and maintaining business rules, with a productivity gain of up to 40% compared to traditional modernization methods," he says.
Through a structured semantic analysis process, Legacy Modernization by Genius maps a company's entire legacy ecosystem, identifying potential improvements, and delivers solutions aligned with the client's core business, boosting process and decision-making accuracy, reducing errors, and improving the quality of the initiative's results. Each project generates a set of updated digital information that serves as a foundation for future developments, transforming systemic knowledge into reusable assets for reorganizing complex architectures and simplifying them. All this while maintaining business logic intact and internal data updated, governed, and secure.
Legacy Modernization by Genius uses its network of specialized intelligent tools, working together, to accurately accelerate migration to more modern environments and applications. Features include automated code analysis, which identifies obsolete sections and areas for improvement; business rule extraction, which recovers the implicit knowledge that underpins critical processes; automated test and simulation generation, ensuring that changes don't compromise operations; and code refactoring, which reorganizes and simplifies complex sections without altering their original function.
The solution also analyzes dependencies, including modules, functions, services, and data that need to be integrated during execution, in addition to generating technical documentation. With a high degree of customization per client, these tools are configured and created specifically for each organization's technology. With the solution, SQUADRA promotes hyperproductivity through the automation of repetitive tasks, process optimization, and intelligent use of resources, resulting in greater operational efficiency, lower costs, faster delivery, and greater reliability.
Legacy Modernization by Genius is already being used in several projects. In the logistics segment, for example, SQUADRA used the solution to perform an in-depth analysis of a client's legacy system responsible for managing train circulation. The solution was essential for exploring the existing code with advanced features such as semantic analysis. This enabled the team to quickly identify key concepts, flows, and operational rules, leaving the team fully prepared to safely and accurately migrate to a more modern environment. This approach accelerated the 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 that Artificial Intelligence only makes sense when applied purposefully, driven 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.
For more information about Genius, visit: https://www.geniusai.com.br/pt-br
About SQUADRA
THE SQUAD SQUADRA is one of the largest technology consultancies, delivering high-impact digital solutions from Brazil to the world, creating modern, scalable, and intelligent digital platforms that help companies and organizations reach their full potential. Its end-to-end digital journey combines discovery, design, artificial intelligence, and technical expertise in development, operations, and data to drive real business change. SQUADRA believes that generating real value begins with effectively capturing the business problem. Therefore, it values the power of co-creation with clients and uses its artificial intelligence-driven platform—Genius—as an accelerator of the development cycle. In 2019, it created SQUADRA VENTURE BUILDER, its investment arm with business units specializing in strategic areas. Currently, with eight business units—Arkhi, DigitalBot, Geosite Tecnologia, Gobuyer, GoToData, SqWork, Wblio, and Wings4Business—this ecosystem expands SQUADRA's expertise and enhances the delivery of value and innovation to its clients. For more information, visit: www.squadra.com.br
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