Gellify successfully kicks off major digital project with CAST Imaging

GELLIFY, a global player in fostering innovation and digital transformation, has declared the successful completion of the initial phase of a significant project. The venture leverages the capabilities of CAST Imaging in designing middleware for a predominant insurance banking institution. This middleware will optimise data on an AS/400 system served by a legacy application. The initiative unlocks new potentials for swift responsivity, which is crucial in staying ahead in competitive contexts.

The project has harnessed CAST Imaging's software intelligence technology to scrutinise a massive volume of legacy code. This code, extending back decades and layered over the years, has remained totally void of documentation. A team of COBOL experts from the GELLIFY ecosystem was brought on board with the objective of dissecting this code, extracting useful data, and facilitating its reuse.

Fabio Bucci, CTO at GELLIFY, highlighted the significant time-saving benefits achieved through reverse engineering with CAST Imaging. Even for experienced COBOL analysts like themselves, the process streamlined data capture. Additionally, it empowered less experienced individuals by simplifying the code analysis process, demonstrating its accessibility and efficiency for users across expertise levels.

Bucci said, Reverse engineering of the code performed with CAST Imaging has brought considerable time savings, even for those like us who have extensive experience in COBOL code analysis. 

CAST's software intelligence solution has brought about an appreciable reduction in the time consumed in comprehending architectures and interactions. It caters to the availability of procedural descriptions in an intelligible language augmented by in-built AI. Furthermore, the solution provides graphical interpretations through CAST Imaging. After completion, the middleware software is expected to become a crucial resource for a startup designated to apply the same solution in liberating legacy data from other insurance banks, thereby rendering it reusable.

The methodology employed in this project, involving legacy code acquisition through reverse engineering, holds high potential for replication in future applications. It leverages the built-in expertise to unlock otherwise inaccessible data of inestimable value by enabling smoother access.

GELLIFY's successful completion of the initial phase of this significant project showcases the transformative power of leveraging advanced technology in legacy system optimisation. By harnessing CAST Imaging's software intelligence technology, GELLIFY has unlocked valuable data from decades-old legacy code, paving the way for enhanced responsiveness and competitiveness in the insurance banking sector. This project demonstrates the effectiveness of reverse engineering methodologies and sets a precedent for future applications in liberating and repurposing legacy data for innovation and digital transformation across industries.