The European Commission’s DG MARE leveraged generative AI to accelerate the migration of its IT applications to the cloud, improving productivity and enabling integrated data analytics for sustainable fisheries management.
- Refactored 2,000+ business rules in minutes vs. estimated 12,000 person-days
- 90% accuracy in AI-generated cloud-ready code
- Unified data platform integrating fishing vessel locations and catch declarations from 27 EU member states plus third countries
DG MARE’s legacy IT applications and data were siloed and required extensive manual rewriting to migrate to cloud infrastructure, delaying modernization and limiting cross-data analytics capabilities.
Developed a generative AI tool using large language models to automatically refactor legacy business rules into cloud-ready code, accelerating migration to AWS cloud and enabling the creation of a unified data platform called Ocean Store.
- Reduced code refactoring time from 12,000 person-days to minutes
- Increased developer productivity significantly
- Created a unified data platform integrating diverse fisheries data
- Enabled advanced analytics to detect illegal fishing and support policy enforcement
