Software Modernization

Know what you depend on, where it came from, and whether it is safe to ship. Artifact Cache gives every build one governed source for external dependencies, so an upgrade or a removal lands consistently across teams. Artifact Governance records where each dependency entered the build, turning a risky package into a traceable, actionable fact. Repository Managers integrate as the system of record, so dependency policy is enforced at the point of consumption — not discovered in an audit.

When you can't size what a change will touch, the safe-looking move is no change at all — so necessary upgrades, deprecations, and consolidations stall, the toolchain ossifies, and the debt comes due later as a forced, urgent migration. Act blind instead, and the escalations arrive from teams nobody knew were affected. Your real toolchain is already recorded: Build Scan captures every build as a wide event — build-tool and runtime versions, CI systems, frameworks, dependencies — across CI and developer machines, not just the slice CI sees. Develocity Analytics queries that record to size who and what a change touches — the developers, projects, and pipelines on the version you're moving — and cross-tabulates to surface the compound cases: the teams on an old dependency that also run an incompatible runtime. You scope the change from its measured blast radius before you commit — and act instead of stall.

You can't credibly say how far along your modernization is. Progress is self-reported in spreadsheets stale on arrival, or counted in repositories — which ignores how active or important each one is: you report 90% of repositories migrated while 80% of build volume still runs on the old runtime, because the high-volume repositories migrate last. Yet the real state is already recorded: Build Scan captures every build as a wide event — build-tool and runtime versions, CI systems, frameworks, dependencies — across CI and developer machines, not just the slice CI sees. Develocity Analytics reads that record into an activity-weighted burn-down — percent complete, the rate it's closing, net of regression — and cross-tabulates the dimensions, so partial progress counts too: the projects not yet on the new framework version but already on the required target JDK. You see how close the remainder is — on what usage shows, not a status update.