Application modernization services

Reimagine application migration and modernization with AI

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Modernize application estates to scale AI

Organizations are investing in modernizing their application portfolios. This means optimizing business operating models with a hybrid cloud and AI to drive cost efficiency, improve customer experience, function increase productivity and create opportunities for innovation.

Our application modernization services, powered by IBM Consulting® Advantage for Cloud Transformation, offer skills, methods and tools that help determine the right strategy. They're based on your portfolio to help modernize and containerize legacy applications and accelerate the time-to-value of hybrid cloud environments.

Applying generative AI with code generation power can also enable hybrid cloud developers of all experience levels to migrate and modernize legacy application codes. This method brings containerization and microservices at scale to the new target platforms with code consistency, less errors and speed accelerating modernization journey. Develop a modernization strategy that helps you build new features and upgrade to modernized applications on any cloud-based service provider platform.

Capabilities
Build an application modernization roadmap

Co-create with our IBM Garage methodology to develop an application modernization solutions roadmap supported by modernization patterns such as rehosting, refactoring, replatforming, rearchitecting or replacing applications.

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Speed modernization with IBM Consulting Advantage for Cloud Transformation

The platform uses generative AI capabilities to accelerate a hybrid cloud strategy, modernize, migrate and build applications, and our generative AI essentials toolkit enables prompt re-engineering across multiple models.

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Cloud migration services

Boost the speed, performance, scalability and cybersecurity of your cloud adoption. Our experts will help you design the best migration strategy and roadmap for a secure, repeatable and scalable path to the cloud. 

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Mainframe application modernization services

IBM can modernize your existing mainframe apps and data and extend them to the cloud, develop new cloud-native apps on the mainframe and integrate them with existing data and apps already on the mainframe.

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Achieve smarter, faster and more resilient application modernization at scale

IBM’s agentic AI-powered services are redefining application migration and modernization—accelerating transformation timelines, enhancing code quality and reducing risk through intelligent automation.

Use cases

Application modernization that drives business outcomes

IBM Garage® Methodology creates the optimal application modernization roadmap and streamlines execution to minimize business disruption and quickly capture business value.

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Modernize faster and become more cost effective

Improve application modernization speed leveraging modernization patterns, AI code generators, advanced analytical tools and new delivery models saving time and money.

 

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    Create a future-ready culture

    Achieve modernization at scale by embracing an agile culture and new ways of working with AI accelerators and automation.

     

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      Unify hybrid operations and AI readiness

      Infrastructure automation solutions for multicloud provisioning, securing, connecting and running modern applications. Products include Terraform®, Vault® and Consul®—for management of hybrid and multicloud environments.

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      Accelerate your journey to cloud with the IBM Delivery Curator

      A cloud migration and modernization companion that helps in planning, designing and executing a successful journey to cloud. Incorporates the IBM Cloud Migration experience, industry best practices and intelligent automation across the cloud migration and modernization lifecycle.

      Strategic partnerships

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      AWS

      Using agile methodologies and extensive reusable blueprints, we can help speed your design, migration and operation on AWS Cloud regardless of your industry segment.

      Case studies

      Read our ebook of success stories showing how IBM and AWS helped 5 large organizations optimize operations and scale AI-driven innovation by using services, platforms and proven transformation approaches.

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      Saudi Telecom Company 

      Accelerating digital transformation with a hybrid cloud foundation, automated operations and cloud-based apps. 

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      DHCS

      IBM helped the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) modernize legacy systems and accelerate their hybrid cloud journey with AWS Cloud and Red Hat® OpenShift® on AWS (ROSA).

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      Lufthansa

      Lufthansa Group merges and enhances multiple ground operations applications into a single web-based platform with IBM Consulting.

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      Gruppo BCC ICCREA

      Leveraged application migration and modernization services to design a hybrid cloud solution that connected their mainframe core banking systems with modern third-party services.

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