Transform your legacy applications with AI-enabled modernisation

Transform your legacy applications with AI-enabled modernisation

Your sustainable path to driving growth and innovation

 

Applications (Apps) are the beating heart of many organisations. The best are slick interfaces that expedite transactions; the not-so-good can be slow and frustrating and threaten revenue and add business risk. With Artificial intelligence (AI) as a powerful enabler, updating these legacy apps is no longer just about cost savings – it’s a pathway to greater adaptability, strengthened security, and improved customer satisfaction.

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Modernising legacy apps: An AI-powered approach


Legacy systems pose challenges like high maintenance costs and security risks, but AI can support modernisation efforts by improving code, enhancing security, and streamlining processes. This guide explores AI-driven modernisation strategies with real-world examples. We explore the need for strong AI governance, including ethical guidelines and robust infrastructure, to unlock innovation, scalability, and resilience.

What's in it for you?

  • Understand the risks and pains of legacy tech
  • Identify the opportunities and gains of AI-enabled application modernisation
  • Explore the key considerations for lasting success
  • Discover key modernisation strategies
  • The path to digital maturity

 

 

Application Modernisation

  • What is application modernisation?
  • Why modernise?
  • Strategies to modernise
What is application modernisation?

Organisations usually retain legacy apps because they fulfil at least one key function - but you wouldn’t want employees driving cars that keep breaking down or allow your premises to fall into disrepair. So why let an outdated app threaten your business?

Application modernisation refers to overhauling old tech, often piece by piece. That creates a cutting-edge solution for current needs, and safeguards innovation by allowing for fast, safe and frequent updates further down the track.

Why modernise?

The times are ever-changing – why not your organisation? Ploughing on with legacy apps raises big risks: apps superseded by advances in technology can restrict innovation, frustrate customers and threaten revenue.

Modernising legacy apps will generate long-term - potentially indefinite - benefits, not to mention quick wins. That’s particularly so if you opt for a cloud-native solution (modern apps are designed for the cloud, legacy apps are tricky to move and can be expensive to run once there).

In the application modernisation guide above, we explore several key reasons businesses should modernise, alongside the key opportunities this provides. 

Strategies to modernise

Various cloud-focused app modernisation solutions each have different purposes, risks and costs. These strategies include rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, rearchitecting, rebuilding, and replacing – but before you can decide which is right for you, you need to know everything about your existing system.

That’s not just how it works for customers, but how it works for you. How was it created? What tech is used to maintain it? How does it integrate with other platforms? Who are your customers and why do they use it? What works well? What needs ditching or fixing?

Read more in our application modernisation guide above. 

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