For years, we’ve been working side by side with Databricks, delivering end-to-end SAS-to-Databricks migrations for enterprises that need more than a technical lift-and-shift. Because of the gap we repeatedly saw organizations struggling with, in 2022 we created Alchemist, a comprehensive migration accelerator that combines deep legacy expertise with modern AI capabilities.
Acting as both an Analyzer and a Transpiler, it combines detailed SAS code analysis with deterministic conversion to PySpark, complemented by agentic automation for testing and validation to achieve an automatic end-to-end migration.
The goal has always been simple but hard to achieve: make large-scale legacy modernization faster, safer and realistic for real enterprise environments without losing the business logic built up over years.
The full article by Dmitriy Alkhimov is well worth the read if you’re thinking about large-scale legacy modernization: https://www.databricks.com/blog/alchemist-brickbuilder-databricks-marketplace-app
