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Modernizing Uniface: without rebuilding your business logic

Preserve existing business logic and build the foundation for long-term innovation.
The real risk isn't Uniface
it's technological standstill

Legacy-Risiken-1Risk – Legacy applications are holding back innovation

Many organizations delay modernizing their Uniface applications because a full rebuild seems too risky. Understandable. But every delay increases dependency on scarce specialists, limits cloud and API capabilities, and makes future change even harder.

With every postponed decision, the following grows:

  • Innovation pressure

  • Technological dependency

  • Shortage of Uniface specialists

  • Constraints on cloud and API strategiess:

ModernisierungControlled modernization instead of high-risk rebuilds

Uniface was long a powerful platform for model-driven enterprise applications. Today, historically grown legacy architectures limit innovation and scalability — but that doesn't mean you have to start over.

Thinkwise enables controlled modernization of Uniface applications based on a modern, model-driven architecture. Business processes, data models, and business logic are preserved and gradually transformed into future-proof applications.

Thinkwise: the modern alternative to Uniface

Thinkwise combines the strengths of the Uniface approach with modern cloud, web, and API architectures. The goal isn't a pure technology migration, it's the long-term modernization of business-critical applications without losing existing business logic.
The platform is built for organizations that value the benefits of model-driven software development and want to make their applications technologically future-proof.

Why organizations modernize their Uniface applications with Thinkwise
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Future-proof architecture:  without creating new legacy risks

Thinkwise separates business logic from technology. Applications stay current even as UI, cloud, or platform technologies evolve. Without rebuilding your model from scratch.

  • Modern UI, cloud, and API standards
  • Continuous platform updates
  • Long-term investment security
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Preserve what works with the Thinkwise AI Upcycler

The Thinkwise AI Upcycler modernizes existing Uniface applications in a controlled way, without a full rebuild and without losing business-critical logic. The Upcycler reduces modernization effort by more than 50% compared to a complete redevelopment.

  • Faster modernization
  • Lower project risk
  • Incremental transformation possible
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Less dependent on scarce Uniface expertise

Model-driven software development with Thinkwise reduces custom code and simplifies maintenance and further development. New developers get up to speed faster — without needing deep knowledge of legacy environments.

  • Less custom code
  • Better maintainability
  • Faster onboarding for new developers
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Respond faster to new requirements

With Thinkwise, organizations implement new requirements faster, without long release cycles and complex legacy dependencies.

  • Shorter development cycles
  • Integrated test automation
  • Higher rate of innovation
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Connect Uniface applications to modern systems

Thinkwise enables seamless integration of existing applications into modern cloud, data, and enterprise architectures. Including REST and OData APIs, ERP, CRM, and BI integration, hybrid and cloud architectures, and modern web and mobile applications.

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Your business logic stays yours

Thinkwise is built on open standards and flexible deployment models. No proprietary programming language, your own databases and infrastructure, for lasting technological independence.

What customers say
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"We have now laid the foundation for a scalable, agile, and flexible application landscape. When something changes in the market or within our organization, we can respond immediately. With standard software, that speed and flexibility simply wouldn't be possible, and that gives us a real competitive advantage."

Jeroen van Zomeren — Manager IM&ICT, Florensis

Modernize Uniface without facing the same challenges again in ten years
Find out how existing Uniface applications can be modernized in a controlled way and kept future-proof for the long term.
How does modernizing Uniface with Thinkwise work?

The Thinkwise AI Upcycler understands more than just your database. Existing business logic, data models, and application structures are analyzed, extracted, and systematically transformed, so you can modernize step by step without disrupting day-to-day operations.

The process consists of six steps:

  1. Analysis of existing Uniface applications
  2. Extraction of models, processes, and data
  3. Automated transformation into the Thinkwise model
  4. Modernization of user interfaces and services
  5. Integration into existing IT landscapes
  6. Phased decommissioning of the legacy environment

This approach significantly reduces project risk and enables controlled transformation while keeping the business running.

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FAQ - Modernizing Uniface with Thinkwise
1. How do you modernize Uniface applications without a full rebuild?

Thinkwise uses an upcycling approach. Existing business logic, processes, and data models are analyzed and modernized in a structured way — without having to rebuild applications from scratch.

2. What is the best alternative to Uniface?

Organizations today are looking for platforms that offer open standards, modern cloud architectures, and long-term future-proofing. Thinkwise combines model-driven software development with legacy modernization and enables the controlled evolution of existing applications.

3. How does Thinkwise reduce risk in legacy modernization?

Through incremental modernization, reuse of existing business logic, and automated transformations, Thinkwise reduces project risk, migration effort, and operational disruption.

4. Can existing Uniface processes and business logic be retained?

Yes. With the Thinkwise Upcycler, existing models, processes, and applications can be analyzed and modernized — without losing the business-critical core of the application.

5. Can existing Uniface data models be retained?

Yes. The Thinkwise AI Upcycler takes over key components of the Uniface data model. It analyzes not just the database, but the complete Uniface Application Model — including entities, fields, keys, relationships, labels, field attributes, and widgets.

6. Can Uniface applications be made cloud-ready?

The Thinkwise platform supports cloud, hybrid, and on-premises scenarios. Thinkwise Cloud provides a modern environment for the secure and scalable operation of business-critical applications.

7. How does the phased decommissioning of Uniface work?

Modernization takes place in a controlled, multi-phase process. Organizations can transform applications incrementally while keeping them operational in parallel — no big-bang migration required.

8. Will my application become legacy again after modernization?

Thinkwise separates business logic from technology. This keeps applications technologically current, even as UI, cloud, or platform technologies continue to evolve.

9. How do organizations avoid vendor lock-in when modernizing Uniface?

Thinkwise is built on open standards, flexible deployment models, and direct access to your own databases and infrastructure. Organizations retain full control over their applications and data at all times.You said: kan je deze afbeelding voor mij ook in NL en engels maken zodat ik die ook op de pagina kan zettem