Code Analysis & Modernization

    Know exactly what your code is doing, then modernize it for APIs, cloud, and AI

    Legacy code is often what slows down rapid adoption of new technology. Brandywine Consulting Partners analyzes your codebases, databases, and integration estate with static analysis, dependency and vulnerability scanning, architecture recovery, and AI-assisted code comprehension. We quantify technical debt and security exposure, map coupling and data flows, and produce a prioritized modernization roadmap. We then carry out the plan in stages. We use strangler-fig migration, API-first refactoring, database modernization, cloud re-platforming, and automated test coverage, keeping the business running throughout. The outcome is a codebase your team understands, that passes security review, and that can take on FHIR APIs, event streaming, and AI agents without a rewrite.

    What We Do

    Service overview and the core capabilities BCP brings to every code analysis & modernization engagement.

    Static analysis, code-quality metrics, and complexity hot-spot mapping
    Dependency, licence, and vulnerability (SCA / SAST) scanning with remediation plans
    Architecture recovery: module boundaries, coupling, data flows, and integration maps
    Technical-debt quantification and prioritized modernization roadmaps
    AI-assisted code comprehension, documentation generation, and test generation
    Strangler-fig and API-first refactoring of monoliths and legacy services
    Database modernization: schema refactoring, stored-procedure extraction, and cloud migration
    CI/CD, automated testing, and quality gates to keep the codebase healthy

    Key Benefits

    Evidence, Not Opinions

    Measured debt, risk, and coupling scores turn modernization from a debate into a funded, sequenced plan.

    Integration-Ready Systems

    Clean service boundaries and APIs let you add FHIR, event streams, and AI agents without reworking the core.

    Lower Risk Change

    Incremental migration with test coverage and quality gates replaces risky big-bang rewrites.

    A legacy monolith breaking apart into a lattice of connected modular services
    Modernize without the big bang

    Measured debt, clean seams, and incremental migration.

    Why BCP for Code Analysis & Modernization

    Measured assessments: debt, complexity, coupling, and vulnerability scores rather than opinions
    Healthcare-specific: PHI handling, EDI, HL7, and FHIR-readiness reviewed at the code level
    Incremental strangler-fig migration that keeps the business running
    AI-assisted comprehension and test generation, verified by senior engineers
    Quality gates and CI/CD left behind so the codebase stays healthy
    Proven modernization of reporting tiers, interface engines, and full data center exits

    Who We Serve

    The audiences this service is built for, with the specifics that matter to each.

    Health Systems

    Legacy clinical and reporting systems that block integration and cloud moves.

    • Reporting-tier modernization
    • Interface re-platforming
    • Data center exits

    Payers

    Claims, eligibility, and member systems built on aging code and stored procedures.

    • Stored-procedure extraction
    • API-first refactoring
    • CMS-0057-F API readiness

    Health Tech Vendors

    Codebases that must pass enterprise security review and scale.

    • Technical due diligence
    • SAST / SCA remediation
    • Multi-tenant refactoring

    Investors & Acquirers

    Independent assessment of software assets before a deal.

    • Debt and risk scoring
    • Architecture recovery
    • Remediation cost estimates

    Typical Triggers

    If any of these sound familiar, you're in the window where this service delivers the most value.

    Every change is slow

    Simple features take months because no one fully understands the code.

    Security findings

    Pen tests, SOC 2, or HITRUST surfaced vulnerabilities in old dependencies and code.

    Integration mandate

    FHIR APIs, event streams, or AI agents must connect to systems that were never designed for it.

    Key-person risk

    The engineers who wrote the system have left.

    Cloud move

    A data center exit or cloud program needs a per-application modernization decision.

    M&A or investment

    You need an independent read on the quality and risk of a codebase.

    Service Deliverables

    Three engagement models, same engineering rigor — choose the operating boundary that fits your team.

    BCP Hosted

    Fully managed by BCP

    • Code health dashboard: debt, complexity, vulnerabilities, and trend over time
    • Ongoing dependency and vulnerability monitoring with remediation tickets
    • Quarterly architecture and code-quality reviews

    Client Hosted

    Delivered into client tenant

    • Assessment report: architecture maps, debt quantification, security findings, roadmap
    • Modernized services, APIs, and databases deployed to your cloud
    • CI/CD pipelines with automated tests and quality gates

    BCP-Managed, Client Hosted

    BCP operates inside your tenant

    • BCP engineering pod delivering the modernization roadmap in your repos
    • Pairing and knowledge transfer with your engineers
    • Release and rollback management during migration

    Service Timeline

    BCP's framework-driven methodology: Discover → Design → Build → Validate → Launch → Operate. Durations are typical and right-sized to scope.

    012–3 weeks

    Analyze

    • Static analysis, SCA, and SAST scans
    • Architecture recovery and data-flow mapping
    • Stakeholder and runtime telemetry review
    021–2 weeks

    Score

    • Debt, risk, and coupling quantification
    • Business-criticality overlay
    • Modernization option analysis (retain, refactor, re-platform, replace)
    031–2 weeks

    Plan

    • Sequenced roadmap with cost and risk
    • Target architecture and API contracts
    • Test-coverage baseline
    048–24 weeks

    Modernize

    • Strangler-fig extraction of services
    • Database and stored-procedure refactoring
    • Cloud re-platforming
    05Per release

    Validate

    • Automated regression and contract tests
    • Performance and security verification
    • Parallel run where required
    06Ongoing

    Sustain

    • Quality gates in CI/CD
    • Dependency hygiene
    • Architecture fitness checks

    Service Stack

    The BCP-preferred technology stack for this service, plus the common client stacks we support and operate.

    BCP Technology Stack

    Analysis

    SonarQubeCodeQLSemgrepNDependStructure101

    Supply chain

    SnykGitHub Advanced SecurityDependabotSBOM (CycloneDX)

    AI-assisted engineering

    GitHub CopilotLLM code comprehensionGenerated test suites

    Target platforms

    Azure App ServiceAKSAzure FunctionsAzure SQLTerraform

    Common Client Stacks We Support

    .NET estates

    WebForms / WCFSQL Server stored proceduresSSIS

    Java estates

    Spring / J2EEOracleBatch jobs

    Integration estates

    Interface enginesEDI translatorsFile drops

    Modern targets

    ContainersEvent streamingFHIR APIs

    Representative Use Cases

    • Pre-acquisition or pre-investment technical due diligence on healthcare software
    • Modernizing legacy .NET / Java claims and eligibility systems to cloud services
    • Extracting business logic from stored procedures into testable services
    • Making legacy EHR-adjacent apps FHIR- and API-ready for CMS-0057-F
    • Security remediation ahead of SOC 2 or HITRUST audits
    • Preparing codebases and data for AI agents and retrieval

    Compliance

    The standards we engineer to — and how BCP ensures the controls are real, evidenced, and audit-ready.

    HIPAA Security Rule

    Code-level review of PHI handling, access control, logging, and encryption.

    SOC 2 / HITRUST

    Secure SDLC, change management, and vulnerability evidence produced by the pipeline.

    OWASP ASVS / Top 10

    SAST and manual review mapped to OWASP controls.

    CMS-0057-F / ONC

    Refactoring to expose standards-based FHIR APIs from legacy systems.

    Service Proof Points

    Representative engagements with the technical challenge, BCP solution, measured outcomes, and the trust assets we deliver alongside the work. Client identifiers anonymized; details available under NDA.

    Health system, 6 hospitals + 200 clinics

    Epic Clarity reporting tier modernization

    Challenge

    Clarity ETL runs blowing past windows; analyst reports running 8–12 hours.

    BCP Solution

    • Re-architected indexing and partitioning strategy
    • Migrated Caboodle to Azure SQL MI with read scale-out
    • Implemented Purview lineage and column-level masking

    Measured Outcomes

    11 hrs → 3 hrs
    ETL window
    −72%
    Avg report runtime
    100% audit coverage
    PHI access events traced

    Stack

    Azure SQL MIADFPurviewPower BI

    Trust Assets

    • Performance benchmark report
    • HIPAA audit-log review
    Health system post-merger, 4 hospitals

    EHR consolidation interface re-platform

    Challenge

    Two interface engines, 600+ interfaces, EHR consolidation to a single Epic instance.

    BCP Solution

    • Migrated all interfaces to a single Rhapsody platform under BCP managed services
    • Canonical model reduced point-to-point duplication
    • Automated regression test pack for every channel

    Measured Outcomes

    612 → 387
    Interfaces consolidated
    Hours → < 5 min
    Mean time to detect issue
    −40% net cost
    Interface team headcount

    Stack

    RhapsodyAzure DevOpsAzure Monitor

    Trust Assets

    • Interface conformance reports
    • HIPAA BAA
    • BCP 24/7 interface NOC
    Community hospital network, 4 hospitals

    Health system data center exit

    Challenge

    Aging data center contract ending; on-prem Epic Caboodle + 30 ancillary apps to relocate.

    BCP Solution

    • Wave-based migration with ExpressRoute and Azure Migrate
    • Refactor of 12 apps to App Service / AKS
    • BCP-managed operations under Azure Lighthouse

    Measured Outcomes

    11 months, on plan
    Migration timeline
    −34%
    Run-rate savings
    −68% YoY
    Unplanned outages

    Stack

    Azure MigrateExpressRouteAKSAzure SQLDefender for Cloud

    Trust Assets

    • HIPAA BAA
    • DR runbook & tested failover
    • 24/7 BCP NOC

    Frequently Asked Questions

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    How does modernization prepare us for AI and integrations?

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