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For over 30 years, The Farber Consulting Group Inc. has helped manufacturers, distributors, and service companies modernize the business applications and databases quietly running their operations - including MS Access, Visual FoxPro, aging SQL Server databases, and COBOL mainframe applications. Founded in 1992 by Doron Farber, the firm specializes in business application modernization, custom business application development, and legacy application modernization. The goal is not simply to replace an old system, but to understand how it works, preserve the business rules and processes that matter, and move the application to a modern web or cloud platform. A key part of that process is AI-assisted reverse engineering. When original developers have retired, left the company, or documentation is incomplete, The Farber Consulting Group Inc. uses AI together with hands-on source-code and database analysis to discover business rules, calculations, workflows, algorithms, database relationships, and application logic before modernization begins. What we do: Business application modernization – Modernizing business-critical applications while preserving their data, workflows, and business logic. AI-assisted reverse engineering – Analyzing existing source code, databases, queries, forms, reports, and stored procedures to discover undocumented business rules and application logic. MS Access conversion – Moving legacy Access applications to modern web-based and cloud applications. Visual FoxPro modernization – Modernizing FoxPro applications while preserving the business processes built into them. COBOL and mainframe migration – Moving COBOL applications from mainframes to modern web and cloud platforms while maintaining critical business logic. Custom business application development – Building software around the way a business actually operates. AI integration and natural-language reporting – Adding AI capabilities that allow users to ask questions about business data in plain English without SQL or an IT ticket. ERP and CRM modernization – ERP and CRM are examples of the business applications the firm has developed, integrated, and modernized. Database modernization and remote DBA services – SQL Server and MySQL performance tuning, monitoring, optimization, and support. Web scraping and data automation – Automating data collection and reporting to reduce manual work. Proven at scale: Johnson & Johnson – Custom accounting and financial systems Dassault – Custom software for global aerospace and defense operations Avis Car Rental – Contract management platform live across 30 locations since 2014 iA American Warranty Group – More than 800 stored procedures optimized, with query performance improved by up to 45% One manufacturing client described the results of our AI reporting work this way: “Searches that used to take multiple hours of physically sorting through paper batch records now come back instantly… The AI module handles the nuanced, multi-criteria searches that used to mean hours of cross-referencing.” The client also began exploring AI for root-cause analysis and predictive purchasing using historical production, raw-material, supplier, and order data. If your business depends on a legacy application that nobody wants to touch, incomplete documentation, or a system whose original developers are no longer available, The Farber Consulting Group Inc. can help discover how the application works and develop a practical path to modernization. Call 732-536-4765 or book a free consultation.
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