Understand
Modernization Workbench
Recover the business model encoded in applications, validate it and carry it into delivery.
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Solutions
One grounded fact base. Several paths forward.
The altitude80 Workbench is the shared knowledge environment. Discovery 1.0 is its licensable, read-only first module. It creates the evidence-backed business model used for business understanding, data impact and governed AI context.
Understand
Understand impact
Data Impact Analyzer
Trace variable behavior, test meaningful conditions and verify outcomes across programs.
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Activate knowledge
AI Agent Library
Give agents governed, contextual business knowledge instead of raw code.
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How the products fit
Discovery creates the fact base. The Workbench keeps it useful.
Discovery 1.0 recovers what exists without changing the source. The Knowledge Repository keeps the evidence and business meaning connected. Data Impact Analyzer and the AI Agent Library extend how that knowledge is examined and used.
Modernization Workbench
Recover the business model encoded in the application.
Discovery 1.0 goes beyond an architecture inventory or logic dump. It separates business meaning from technical execution without changing the source, returning four assets to the business: the processes the organization actually performs, the rules encoded in its software, the terminology behind cryptic field names, and the data those rules act on. The broader Workbench keeps that knowledge in a shared repository where people can validate the business model and, in later modules, manage additions, modifications, retirements and deletions.
Business Processes
Business Rules
Business Terminology
Business Data
Technical execution and business meaning together
People can review the meaning beside the source that supports it.
Data Impact Analyzer
See what changes before you make the change.
Data Impact Analyzer is an optional Workbench extension for examining variable behavior, testing meaningful conditions and verifying outcomes across programs.
The Workbench establishes the business meaning. DIA extends that grounded model into variable behavior and change impact.
Trace the field
See where a value is set, modified and passed through the application.
Verify the outcome
Supply a meaningful condition and compare expected behavior with the calculated result.
Explain what happened
Investigate unexpected values with the calculation path and source context attached.
Built for shared decisions
One artifact. Shared across the table.
CEO and Board
Opaque systems become an understood, measurable business asset.
CFO
Auditable visibility into how revenue, cost and risk decisions are made.
CIO
Transparency into how the application portfolio supports the business, expressed in business terms.
COO
A clear view of how operations actually run, and where they are constrained.
Risk and Compliance
Rules and decisions traceable from source to outcome.
Business and Product
See what your software does for the business, without a translator.
Proven across the environments the business depends on: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, IMS and CICS, with tailored support for Assembler, PL/I, Java, C++ and modern stacks. The platform is incidental. The business it represents is what we recover.
Client proof · Insurance
A data question that had resisted months of work became a traceable analysis.
The client needed to follow critical variables across a large application estate, understand the calculations that changed them and expose anomalies before making a change.
“I've been working on solving this issue for more than three months, and I haven't been able to make progress. I'm very impressed with what's been delivered.”Lead Architect/Developer and Executive Sponsor, Insurance
Documented engagement scope
48M
lines of code
4,300programs
450Kdata elements
60 hours → 10 minutes
The figures demonstrate delivery at scale. The business value was making a previously stalled analysis usable and repeatable.
estimated manual analysis per variable compared with the delivered workflow
AI Agent Library
Agents need business context, not a code dump.
The Knowledge Repository gives agents governed business context: explicit rules, vocabulary, processes and relationships with traceable provenance, rather than raw code or a technical map alone.
Governed
Connected
Traceable
Queryable
Start with understanding.
Choose the capability that matches the decision in front of you.