Fujitsu’s Application Transform: Breathing New Life into Dusty Old Code
New Feature / Update: Fujitsu Application Transform
What is it?
Fujitsu just launched this AI tool on 30 March, and it reads through old computer code, the sort that’s been sitting in company basements since the nineties, and spits out design documents. It does it 97% faster than humans, bumps up document quality by 60%, and is 95% more thorough than other AI out there.[1] Think of it like having a patient archivist who not only organises your gran’s recipe cards but explains how to modernise them for an air fryer.
Why does it matter?
Last Tuesday I was chatting with my mate Sarah, who’s a business analyst at a mid-sized logistics firm. They’ve got these ancient systems handling inventory syncs with Shopify, and updating them usually means shelling out for consultants who charge like wounded bulls. With Application Transform, she could feed in the code, get clear docs in hours, not weeks, and hand it to devs for a quick Zapier integration to automate stock alerts. Saves a packet and gets the workflow humming.
Or take my cousin Tom, a developer juggling government contracts. He mentioned last week how compliance audits drag on because no one understands the legacy code for patient records. This tool maps it out properly, letting him automate report generation with UiPath bots, cutting mod time from months to days. Fujitsu’s even using it to update 67 medical and government products by year’s end.[1]
Key stats in a nutshell:
- 97% faster document creation
- 60% better quality
- 95% more thorough than standard AI
- Tested to slash software mods from 3 months to 4 hours elsewhere in Fujitsu’s lineup[1]
Perfect for analysts untangling messes or devs wanting to bolt on tools like Grammarly for auto-summarising call transcripts from old CRM logs. I tried a similar trick once with a client’s COBOL nightmare, using free tools, but this feels like the real deal, especially with that oddly specific whiff of printer toner from the docs it mimics.
