ByteInsight: Gaining Modernization Clarity from Complex Codebases

In today’s enterprise environments, legacy applications are often core to daily operations. These systems, developed over decades, contain deep institutional knowledge and business logic. But as technologies evolve and modernization efforts become increasingly urgent, one challenge remains consistent: limited visibility into the structure, complexity, and risk of the existing codebase.

The latest release of ByteInsight is designed to address this challenge directly. ByteInsight enables IT leaders and engineering teams to understand what is in their legacy systems and how those systems align with modernization goals. It provides a structured and secure way to analyze code at scale, prioritize investments, and plan modernization efforts with precision. 

And the best part is that ByteInsight is completely FREE to use!

Why Application Visibility Matters More Than Ever

Many modernization initiatives stall before they begin because organizations do not have a clear inventory of what needs to be modernized. Legacy applications often span thousands of files, written in multiple languages, spread across disconnected repositories. Understanding the architecture, volume, and potential risks of these applications can take months using manual methods.

ByteInsight simplifies this process. It performs rapid, automated codebase analysis and delivers structured reporting that aligns technical insight with business needs. This visibility enables:

• More accurate modernization planning
• Better risk management
• Stronger alignment between engineering priorities and business outcomes

What’s New in ByteInsight

This release delivers clearer insights to a broader range of stakeholders. New features improve both usability and decision-making power.

Executive and Technical Reporting Modes

ByteInsight now includes two report views, designed for different audiences:

• Technical View: Offers detailed code inventories, categorized by language, architecture layer, and structure. This view supports developers and architects as they plan and scope modernization projects.
  
  
• Executive View: Designed for CIOs, CTOs, and program leaders, this view summarizes key information needed for strategic decision-making. It includes:
  • Executive Summary: A concise overview of the codebase’s size, structure, and modernization readiness.
  • Code Volume Breakdown: High-level segmentation by user interface, business logic, data access, and configuration.
  • AI Migrator Coverage Map (if applicable): Shows the percentage of code that is eligible for automated migration using GAPVelocity AI tooling.
  • Application Risk Assessment: Identifies potential blockers, outdated dependencies, and patterns that could impact modernization timelines.
  • Migration Pricing Estimator (for VB6 only): Provides an estimated effort and cost based on effective lines of code.

Improved Usability and Accuracy

ByteInsight also includes enhancements to make reports more actionable:

• Redesigned Report Layout: Cleaner design aligned to GAPVelocity’s user experience standards.
  
  
• Search and Pagination: Easier navigation for reports containing large datasets.
  
  
• Tooltips and Contextual Help: Added for easier interpretation of technical metrics.
  
  
• Accurate Support Hour Estimation: Support hours now calculated using an improved model tied to estimated lines of code.
  
  
• Folder Exclusion Logic: Improved handling for excluding C# folders from analysis when needed.

Blazor and Azure Alignment for .NET Modernization

ByteInsight continues to support modernization pathways toward the Microsoft stack, including .NET 10, Azure, and Blazor. This is particularly useful for organizations migrating from PowerBuilder or older .NET platforms.

• Component Alignment: ByteInsight recognizes event-driven UI architectures in legacy applications, which align well with Blazor’s component-based model
  
  
• Developer Skills Transfer: Many legacy developers already know SQL and C#, enabling a smoother transition to .NET-based platforms and Blazor
  
  
• Beyond UI Modernization: ByteInsight supports full modernization, including cloud readiness, data access transformation, and architecture decoupling
  
  
• Cloud Readiness Support: Gain visibility into how your legacy applications align with modern cloud stacks like Azure, enabling faster, lower-risk migration to scalable, secure cloud infrastructure.

Security and Control by Design

One of ByteInsight’s core strengths is its focus on secure and transparent analysis. No source code is uploaded or stored externally. All scans occur in your environment, and only metadata is used to generate reports. This makes the tool ideal for use in regulated industries or organizations with strict data control policies.

Who Should Use ByteInsight

ByteInsight is designed for organizations seeking a structured path to modernization. Typical users include:

• CIOs and CTOs needing high-level insight into legacy systems for budgeting, prioritization, and risk assessment
• Enterprise Architects mapping modernization paths to cloud or service-based architectures
  
• Engineering Managers planning migration timelines and resource allocation
  
• Modernization Teams needing automated insights before initiating rewrite or re-platforming efforts

Whether you’re dealing with PowerBuilder, VB6, ASP.NET Web Forms, or legacy JavaScript applications, ByteInsight helps turn code complexity into a manageable, actionable modernization roadmap.

Getting Started

You can start using ByteInsight in minutes. After scanning your environment, it provides structured output in formats compatible with Excel, Power BI, and Tableau. Teams can review the data independently or work with GAPVelocity AI's engineers to interpret findings and prioritize next steps.

To see the platform in action or request a scan of your applications: