Reimagine application migration and brownfield modernization with AI
Modernize brownfield application estates to scale AI
Organizations are investing in modernizing their application portfolios. This means optimizing business operating models with a hybrid cloud, AI, and brownfield (existing) application development and modernization to drive cost efficiency, improve customer experience, 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 based on your application portfolio. This enables organizations to migrate, modernize, and incrementally enhance brownfield applications, helping modernize and containerize legacy systems while accelerating time-to-value across hybrid cloud environments.
Applying generative AI with code generation capabilities enables hybrid cloud developers of all experience levels to migrate, refactor, and extend brownfield and legacy applications. This approach brings containerization and microservices at scale to new target platforms with greater code consistency, fewer errors, and faster delivery—accelerating the overall modernization journey. It also supports continuous development of new features and upgrades to modernized applications across any cloud service provider platform.
Co-create with our IBM Garage methodology to develop an application migration and brownfield modernization roadmap, supported by modernization patterns such as rehosting, refactoring, replatforming, rearchitecting, replacing or incrementally enhancing existing applications.
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.
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.
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.
IBM’s agentic AI-powered services are redefining application migration and modernization—accelerating transformation timelines, enhancing code quality and reducing risk through intelligent automation.
Our expertise
BoxBoat provides customized strategies for Kubernetes and enterprise container platform adoption, application containerization, DevSecOps, training and enablement.
Nordcloud focuses on delivering long-term value with services covering the entire cloud journey—from initial assessment and strategy development, to execution and ongoing managed services.
Neudesic provides a comprehensive suite of application migration and modernization capabilities including the Neudesic Cloud Factory, a repeatable and automated framework designed for the Microsoft Azure platform.
Txture is a central software platform that automatically assesses application portfolios, recommends optimal 6R migration strategies, automates the planning and tracking of large-scale cloud transformations.
Use cases
- Modernization roadmap
- Faster modernization
- Future-ready culture
- HashiCorp solutions
- IBM Consulting Delivery Curator
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.
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.
Create a future-ready culture
Achieve modernization at scale by embracing an agile culture and new ways of working with AI accelerators and automation.
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.
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
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.
Accelerating digital transformation with a hybrid cloud foundation, automated operations and cloud-based apps.
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).
Lufthansa Group merges and enhances multiple ground operations applications into a single web-based platform with IBM Consulting.
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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