About us

The specialists in legacy modernization.

For more than fifteen years, Vivify Technologies has helped enterprises transform business-critical systems built on PowerBuilder, VB6, COBOL, Nexaweb and legacy web stacks into clean, standard applications their teams own outright.

Who we are

The knowledge in your legacy system is an asset, not a liability.

A working legacy application encodes decades of business rules, edge cases, and hard-won operational knowledge. Rewriting it by hand throws that asset away and asks a new team to rediscover it, one production incident at a time. We built Vivify around a different idea: carry the knowledge across, automatically, and modernize the technology underneath it.

That conviction shaped our model-driven transformation technology, and it is why enterprises and system integrators have trusted us with core systems in manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, hospitality, financial services, and the public sector.

Our heritage

Born from the team behind 400+ enterprise modernizations.

Vivify originated as a spinoff from Nexaweb Technologies, whose team completed over 400 modernization projects for more than 200 Fortune 2000 companies before Nexaweb was acquired by Tobesoft. We carry that lineage forward independently: the same model-driven discipline, sharpened by 15+ years of transformations across the US and Japan.

400+
Modernization projects in our lineage
200+
Fortune 2000 companies served
15+
Years of modernization heritage
How we work

One repeatable practice, three principles.

Model-driven transformation

We parse your application into a structured model of its screens, data, and business logic before any of the new system is generated. The model is the source of truth. Not a wiki page, not tribal knowledge, not a Slack thread.

Automation with rigor

Roughly 90%+ of the transformation is automated, which compresses timelines without compromising fidelity. Business logic is preserved by construction, not re-typed by hand.

Standard output, no lock-in

The result is clean, conventional TypeScript / React, or Vue and similar frameworks where your standards call for it. No proprietary runtime, no black box. Your team can maintain it, extend it, and take it anywhere.

Enterprise systems we have modernized

  • Kobelco
  • JIP
  • NSD
  • Hyatt
  • Alliance Data
  • Vivify Japan
Where we work

Roots in Japan, reach across the US and beyond.

Our architects and project leads work from the US and Japan. Our deepest roots are in the Japanese market, where quality standards are exacting and where Vivify Japan has grown through relationship-led partnerships with leading system integrators. That bar shapes everything we ship, wherever our clients are.

Leadership

Experienced hands on your system.

Rob Gagne

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Rob brings over 20 years of technology leadership to Vivify. Formerly Chief Technology Officer at Nexaweb Technologies and Atabok, he holds a BA in finance from UMass Amherst and an MS in computer science from Northeastern University.

Start with a proof of concept on your own codebase.

Send us a representative slice of your legacy application. We will modernize it and show you the clean, standard code you would own — before you commit to the full modernization.