Enterprise IT landscapes are often burdened by aging systems that consume up to 80% of IT budgets, leaving little room for innovation. Legacy applications, built on outdated architectures, slow down digital transformation, increase operational risks, and create bottlenecks in customer experience. In today’s Agentic AI-driven world, modernizing these systems is no longer optional—it’s a strategic necessity.
Ascendion’s Legacy Modernization Services, powered by AI, (Legacy ModernizationAI) go beyond simple upgrades—they redefine how businesses operate by modernizing applications, infrastructure, and data ecosystems. Our approach focuses on reducing total cost of ownership (TCO), accelerating innovation, and ensuring seamless customer experiences.
Our legacy modernization strategy isn’t just about upgrading technology—it’s about transforming the foundation, applications, and experiences that drive your business. Our Legacy modernization services work across three layers, unifying Data Modernization, Platform Modernization, and UI and UX (Experience) Modernization together into a seamless strategy.
Our Platform Modernization strategy focuses on restructuring and revitalizing your core business applications. Through this process, traditional monolithic applications are transformed into modular, service-oriented architectures where business functions are developed as independent services.
By exposing these services through well-designed application programming interfaces (APIs), you create a flexible ecosystem that enables:
This platform modernization approach significantly improves maintainability and allows for rapid adaptation to changing business needs.
Data Modernization represents the foundational transformation of your organization’s data infrastructure. By modernizing your data platform, you gain enhanced scalability to handle growing data volumes while ensuring data quality and integrity remain paramount.
An effective data modernization strategy should transform data landscape for AI-readiness and real-time decision making.
Our Data Modernization services enable:
A modernized data platform also facilitates better data governance and compliance with current regulatory requirements.
UI UX Modernization (Experience Modernization) enhances the digital experience by separating the UI layer from core business logic. This strategic decoupling enables:
Ascendion follows a four-phased approach, powered by Agentic AI workflows, to legacy system modernization:
Reverse Engineer
Forward Engineer
Test & Validate
Deploy & Evolve
The journey begins with understanding what you have and creating a clear path forward. Our Agentic AI workflows excel at analyzing legacy systems, mapping dependencies, and conducting risk assessments to produce a comprehensive modernization blueprint.
For a financial client, this process uncovered $12 million in hidden technical debt within just four weeks, enabling them to prioritize high-impact changes and allocate resources effectively.
Once the blueprint is in place, it’s time to rebuild for the future. Our AI agents generate modern, efficient code and deploy scalable microservices that align with today’s cloud-native standards. This phase ensures your systems are not only functional, but also primed for growth and adaptability.
A leading media firm partnered with us to launch a cutting-edge streaming platform. By leveraging our forward engineering capabilities, they went live six months ahead of schedule, gaining a significant competitive edge in a fast-moving market.
We drive acceleration and minimize risk through our Agentic AI-driven Quality Engineering framework. AI agents monitor, learn, and adapt scenarios, identifying critical paths, predicting failures, and adjusting coverage—all with traceability to business objectives. Continuous validation loops optimize test scenarios in real-time by analyzing test results, user feedback, and system telemetry.
We drive acceleration and minimize risk through our Agentic AI-driven Quality Engineering framework. AI agents monitor, learn, and adapt scenarios, identifying critical paths, predicting failures, and adjusting coverage—all with traceability to business objectives. Continuous validation loops optimize test scenarios in real-time by analyzing test results, user feedback, and system telemetry.
Modernization doesn’t end with deployment—it’s an ongoing process of optimization and evolution. Our self-healing systems and real-time monitoring tools ensure your applications remain resilient, secure, and performant as demands change.
This proactive approach minimizes downtime, enhances UX, and keeps your systems running smoothly in dynamic environments.
Our ASCENDION AVA+ platform harnesses the power of Agentic AI to revolutionize legacy system modernization. Through a sophisticated network of specialized AI agents, we automate complex transformation processes—from legacy COBOL analysis to cloud-native application development. This intelligent automation framework has demonstrated the capability to accelerate legacy modernization initiatives by up to ten times compared to traditional approaches.
ASCENDION AVA+ seamlessly integrates with your existing enterprise architecture and development workflows, delivering immediate value while ensuring long-term sustainability.
In real-time, our AI agents continuously:
This creates a self-improving ecosystem that maintains rigorous governance standards while driving innovation.
The platform’s intelligent capabilities transform your legacy modernization journey through:
Legacy systems create significant barriers in scalability, integration, and operational efficiency, leading to hidden costs in people, process, and technology debt.
While AI drives modernization at an unprecedented pace, human expertise remains essential for supervision, ethical governance, and strategic execution.
Enterprise and Solution Architects play a critical role in validating AI-driven recommendations, ensuring they align with business objectives and compliance requirements. Cloud and Platform Engineers deploy microservices, event-driven systems, and container orchestration strategies that uphold strict performance and security standards. Meanwhile, Technical Leaders spearhead DevSecOps transformations, enabling continuous delivery, operational resilience, and regulatory compliance. Together, these experts bridge the gap between AI-driven efficiency and sustainable, enterprise-grade modernization.
Enterprise and Solution Architects
Cloud and Platform Engineers
Technical Leaders
While AI drives modernization at an unprecedented pace, human expertise remains essential for supervision, ethical governance, and strategic execution.
Enterprise and Solution Architects play a critical role in validating AI-driven recommendations, ensuring they align with business objectives and compliance requirements. Cloud and Platform Engineers deploy microservices, event-driven systems, and container orchestration strategies that uphold strict performance and security standards. Meanwhile, Technical Leaders spearhead DevSecOps transformations, enabling continuous delivery, operational resilience, and regulatory compliance. Together, these experts bridge the gap between AI-driven efficiency and sustainable, enterprise-grade modernization.
Ascendion’s legacy system modernization services ensure your systems stay ahead of evolving technology. We accelerate decision-making with predictive analytics, identify cyber threats faster through AI-driven security, and enable efficient scaling of workloads with hybrid cloud strategies that optimize both performance and cost. We continuously invest in cutting-edge AI advancements, preparing your systems for future challenges such as quantum computing and edge AI.
