AI Modernization Services:
Turn Legacy Systems into AI-Ready Platforms

Modernize core systems end-to-end by replacing outdated architectures with scalable, cloud-ready solutions. Reducing costs, speeding up delivery cycles, and creating a strong foundation for AI at scale.

A Barrier to Innovation

Legacy systems are no longer just expensive to run.They are becoming harder to operate, slower to change, and increasingly risky to rely on. Rising costs, end-of-life technologies like COBOL, VB6, or legacy Java, and fragmented data landscapes are holding back innovation, delaying regulatory response, and preventing AI adoption. GFT Technologies modernizes your core systems end-to-end, reducing operational cost, accelerating time-to-market, and turning legacy into a foundation for resilience and AI-ready architectures.

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Why the Time to Act is Now

Most organizations don’t choose to modernize. They are forced into it.

  • Core technologies like COBOL, VB6, and legacy Java are reaching end-of-life, and critical knowledge is disappearing with shrinking talent pools  

  • Regulatory frameworks such as demand real-time resilience and traceability

  • Legacy platforms limit innovation and cannot support modern digital business models, real-time analytics, open architectures, and AI-driven personalization.

The pressure isn't coming from one direction. It's coming from all sides at once. Cost. Regulation. Talent. Technology end-of-life. And AI adoption that's impossible to unlock on a legacy foundation. 

Legacy modernization goes beyond a technical challenge. It is now a business constraint limiting growth, compliance, and competitiveness.

What has changed is how modernization can be delivered. By embedding Generative AI across the entire modernization process, GFT has transformed what once considered a multi-decades effort into a structured, governed program that can be executed with control and predictability.
 

Our AI Modernization Services

AI Modernization Services are built on a strong and proven methodology refined over years. We combine a structured top-down strategy with bottom-up code execution, ensuring alignment between business goals and technical precision throughout the program. This approach is further enhanced by specialized expertise, industry knowledge, governance frameworks, and effective change management, creating a comprehensive modernization engine.

Advisory & Portfolio Assessment

Know What to Modernize – and How 

We give you a clear, fact-based view of your landscape and define the right modernization path. 

  • Dependency and risk mapping 

  • 8R strategy (rehost, refactor, rewrite, etc.) 

  • Target architecture definition 

  • Business case and phased roadmap 

Mainframe Modernization

Reduce Cost. Remove Risk. Future-Proof Your Core. 

We modernize mission-critical environments with the right approach: 

  • Rehost → fastest cost reduction  

  • Refactor → improved maintainability  

  • AI-powered rewrite → future-ready architecture  

Delivered with controlled risk and no disruption to running operations. 

Application Modernization

From Legacy Applications to Scalable, AI-Ready Systems 

We transform outdated applications into modern platforms built for innovation: 

  • Angular / React frontends 

  • Spring Boot / .NET backends 

  • API-first, modular architectures 

  • AI-ready documentation 

Integration & Middleware Modernization

From Fragile Batch Processing to Real-Time, Event-Driven Systems 

We replace fragile legacy integrations with scalable, event-driven architectures: 

  • Kafka and event streaming 

  • Microservices and APIs 

  • Standardized integration patterns 

Data, Analytics & AI Enablement

Make AI Adoption Possible – and Practical. 

We modernize your data foundation so AI initiatives can deliver value: 

  • Migration from legacy data platforms  

  • Real-time data pipelines  

  • AI-ready data models and governance  

  • LLMOps and advanced analytics enablement 

Performance Optimization & Cost Take-Out

Cut Cost Without Standing Still. 

We identify and implement high-impact improvements while your future architecture takes shape. 

  • Mainframe consumption reduction 

  • Batch and workload optimization 

  • Licensing cost reduction 

  • Prioritized savings backlog 

What You Get

<60%
Reduction in Operating Costs
<30%
Faster Time-to-Market
100%
Functional Equivalence Where Required

Why GFT

We modernize the systems others avoid: mission-critical platforms where failure is not an option and transformation must happen without disruption. For nearly 40 years, GFT has delivered complex transformations in the most demanding environments – at scale, with control, and without compromise. 
 

  • AI-Accelerated Delivery: Wynxx Transformer Edition automates reverse engineering, code conversion, test generation, and documentation – cutting effort and time at every stage of the modernization journey.
  • AWS. Azure. Google Cloud: We deliver on the platforms enterprises run on. GFT's partnerships with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud mean your modernized systems are built, validated, and optimized on the infrastructure that powers your future. 
  • Deep Regulated-Sector Expertise: We modernize banking-grade, mission-critical systems, not generic enterprise apps. 
  • Industrialized Delivery: Reusable accelerators, CI/CD templates, security baselines, and transformation scripts reduce risk and uncertainty in every engagement. 
  • No Vendor Lock-In: Open conversion standards and architecture governance aligned to your target stack. So you stay in control. 
  • Global Scale: Cross-border delivery teams with deep legacy expertise and modern platform capabilities. 

Cloud-Native. AI-Ready. No Compromises.

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We Modernize Complex Legacy Environments End-to-End.

Powered by Wynxx Transformer Edition

Our AI Modernization approach combines deep engineering expertise with industrialized AI delivery, powered by Wynxx Transformer Edition, our proprietary multi-agent AI platform for legacy system understanding, business logic extraction, and governed code transformation. 

Wynxx goes beyond code conversion. It understands legacy systems at scale, extracts business logic automatically, and enables governed transformation with built-in testing and documentation. 

The Wynxx Transformer Edition is built on our long-term partnerships with major hyperscalers. It incorporates and optimizes their key solutions and products into a comprehensive technology stack. This stack addresses nearly all infrastructure and product needs that customers have during their modernization journey. 

This allows us to deliver modernization with speed, control, and predictable outcomes. 

Ready to Move Beyond Legacy?

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Carlos Kazuo Missao
Global Head of Innovation Solutions
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