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 knowledge away and forces a new team to rediscover it in production. 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 200+ enterprise modernizations.

Vivify was founded in 2014 as a spinoff from Nexaweb Technologies, whose team completed over 200 enterprise modernization projects before Nexaweb was acquired by Tobesoft. We carry that lineage forward independently: the same model-driven discipline, sharpened by more than a decade of transformations across the US and Japan.

200+
Modernization projects
15+
Years modernizing enterprise systems
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 documents or tribal knowledge.

Automation with rigor

90%+ of the transformation is automated, which compresses timelines without compromising fidelity. Business logic is preserved by construction, not re-typed by hand. AI speeds up the engineering around the transformation: the remaining custom work, the tests, and the checks that old and new behave the same.

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

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 is a demanding standard to meet, and we hold every project to it, not only the work we do in Japan.

We are now extending the same partner model to system integrators and consultancies in the Gulf, Southeast Asia, and the UK. See Partner With Us.

Leadership

Experienced hands on your system.

Rob Gagne

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.

About Vivify Technologies

Common questions.

What does Vivify Technologies do?

Vivify Technologies is a legacy-modernization specialist. We convert business-critical legacy applications, including PowerBuilder, VB6, COBOL, Nexaweb, and older web systems, into clean, standard TypeScript and React that your team owns, with more than 90% of the conversion automated.

Is Vivify Technologies the same company as Vivify Japan?

No, they are two separate companies that work closely together. Vivify Japan (vivifyjapan.com) is based in Japan and runs its own sales there. Vivify Technologies is the engineering and delivery team behind the modernization work, using the same model-driven transformation approach.

What legacy systems does Vivify Technologies modernize?

PowerBuilder, VB6, COBOL, and Nexaweb are where we have the deepest public track record. The approach is model-driven and source-language flexible, so it also applies to other legacy languages and frameworks. If your system is not on the list, ask us about it.

How is a Vivify modernization different from a hand rewrite?

A hand rewrite re-derives your business rules from documentation and memory, which is slow and where undocumented behavior gets lost. We parse the actual source into a model and carry the business logic across automatically, then our people handle the architecture, the parts with no modern equivalent, and the testing that confirms old and new behave the same.

Where is Vivify Technologies based?

Our architects and project leads work from the United States and Japan, with engineering across Japan, the US, and Vietnam. Our deepest roots are in the Japanese market, and we are extending the same partner model to system integrators in the Gulf, Southeast Asia, and the UK.

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.

Request a POC → See how it works