Transforming legacy Visual Basic systems for the public sector
Empower your modernisation with AI – swift and secure transformation of your legacy applications
The UK public sector spends £2.3 billion annually maintaining outdated IT systems. The State of Government Digital Review, Jan 2025 calls out “Failure to adopt new technology costs the taxpayer £45 billion a year.” The review reflects on public sector struggles to modernise legacy systems due to misaligned funding, outdated systems, reallocated budgets, and technical debt.
More specifically, legacy Visual Basic applications in public sector, pose efficiency, security, and compliance challenges, that leads to high maintenance costs and risk. We mitigate these issues with AI-powered solutions to modernise legacy applications, ensuring seamless transition with minimal disruption.
Our security-cleared, award-winning migration experts with deep modernisation and public sector experience can deploy into secure environments, across multiple clouds and on-premises.
Using automated code conversion and intelligent analysis, we streamline and future-proof your critical systems.
Results can be achieved in just 5 days, minimising cost and disruption whilst maximising value, operational efficiency and the ability to innovate.
Ebook – Modernising VB legacy applications with AI
Our eBook outlines a rapid, low-cost, low-risk legacy application migration methodology using our Visual Basic AI modernisation framework, showcasing benefits, customer success stories, and a pilot program delivering modernisation results within five days.
Benefits of AI powered modernisation for public sector
Regardless of the modernisation strategy you choose, Generative AI is a key enabler in accelerating and derisking your project, providing many benefits to public sector establishments;
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Cost reduction
Generative AI can significantly reduce the cost of modernising legacy systems through increased levels of automation throughout the process, which once modernised, can significantly reduce ongoing support costs for public sector organisations
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Time to results
Our results have shown an average of 20% additional productivity gains when using Generative AI, meaning we can accelerate your timelines significantly
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Continuous evolution
Agentic AI capabilities are driving unparalleled efficiencies in software development; this is a rapidly evolving field
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Clear documentation
A lack of documentation is a major barrier to modernisation. Our AI based Decipher auto documentation solution demonstrates the real benefits of how AI can support your modernisation goals
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Remove barriers to modernisation
Using automation to modernise reduces the financial and technical barriers to entry
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Empowering Citizen Services
Improve citizen services by automating workflows, predicting needs, and enabling faster, smarter and more personalised systems
The National Highways solution “ … transformed NH’s operations, with incident reporting now 150% faster and incident closure efficiency increased by 82%. Thanks to the new, user-friendly interface, incident creation is also 50% faster.”
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Unlock the power of future-ready technologies with Decipher
Break free from ageing legacy applications
Decipher is a powerful AI tool that harnesses Large Language Models (LLMs) on both Azure and AWS to automate your entire application analysis and documentation process. Decode complex, under-documented legacy systems with ease and reduce risk while accelerating modernisation.
Accelerating National Highways’ incident response with Azure cloud
National Highways engaged with Version 1 to modernise their outdated Visual Basic 6 client app with a modern, cloud-based Azure solution.
The modernisation project resulted in 150% faster incident reporting, more efficient incident closing, and a 50% increase in report creation speed, improving journey times, navigation, and safety on England’s major highways.