Stuttgart, 19 May 2026 – As enterprises accelerate investment in artificial intelligence, legacy IT systems have emerged as a critical barrier to scaling innovation. Decades-old technologies are slowing transformation, increasing operational risk, and limiting the full impact of AI initiatives.
AI alone cannot solve this challenge. To help organisations bridge the gap between AI ambition and operational reality, GFT has launched its AI Modernisation offering – a comprehensive, AI-powered approach designed to transform complex legacy environments into scalable, AI-ready platforms.
Across industries, organisations are facing increasing pressure from multiple directions: end-of-life technologies such as COBOL, VB6, and legacy Java, shrinking talent pools, rising operational costs, and growing regulatory requirements. At the same time, fragmented data architectures are preventing AI and advanced analytics initiatives from delivering meaningful business value.
Modernisation is no longer optional – it has become a business-critical requirement for growth, compliance, and competitiveness.
AI Modernisation as a Strategic Transformation
While today’s agentic AI models can analyse legacy code, identify dependencies, and improve system visibility, modernisation requires far more than transparency. It demands a complete rethink of architecture, reduced system complexity, and the ability to evolve at the pace of business and regulatory change.
GFT’s AI Modernisation offering has been designed to address this challenge. It combines AI-powered system intelligence with deep engineering expertise to modernise entire legacy ecosystems – from core platforms and applications to integration layers and data environments.
This includes:
- End-to-end legacy modernisation across core, mid-tier, desktop, integration, and data layers
- Rapid diagnostics to map dependencies, define modernisation pathways, and assess cost, risk, and ROI
- Architecture-led transformation with API-first, event-driven, and cloud-native target designs
- AI-powered system understanding combined with human-led architecture, validation, and migration
- Proven accelerators and assets used in large-scale modernisation programmes across Europe and the Americas
- Measurable outcomes, including cost reduction, performance improvements, and regulatory alignment
Powered by Wynxx, GFT’s multi-agent AI platform, the offering goes beyond simple code conversion. It enables large-scale system analysis, automated extraction of business logic, and governed transformation with integrated testing and documentation. This allows modernisation programmes to progress significantly faster without compromising control, stability, or functional integrity.
“Technology debt in large organisations is one of the biggest barriers to efficiency, faster time-to-market, regulatory compliance, and especially AI adoption,” said Marco Santos, Global CEO at GFT. “AI is opening new possibilities to accelerate legacy modernisation, enabling organisations to embed intelligence directly into their business processes.”
Measurable Impact for Clients
By combining AI with human expertise and a proven delivery methodology, GFT ensures modernisation goes far beyond code translation. Instead, it becomes a controlled, architecture-driven transformation that preserves business-critical knowledge while reducing technical debt.
Supported by industrialised delivery capabilities and decades of experience in regulated industries, GFT helps clients achieve measurable business outcomes, including:
- 25–60% reduction in operating costs
- 25–30% faster time-to-market
- AI-ready core systems and data platforms
- Built-in regulatory resilience and traceability
For enterprises, this translates into faster innovation cycles, improved interoperability, and a scalable foundation for AI-driven business models.
GFT’s expertise in large-scale legacy transformation is also recognised by leading cloud providers. As one of the few AWS Mainframe Modernisation Competency Partners worldwide, GFT is acknowledged for its architectural approach, which combines strategic governance with AI-driven modernisation powered by the Wynxx platform.
At the same time, GFT received the Google Cloud Partner of the Year 2026 award for Infrastructure Modernisation in Latin America for the second consecutive year, reinforcing its ability to deliver modernisation programmes with measurable business impact at scale.
In addition, GFT’s long-standing partnership with Microsoft – built through more than a decade of joint modernisation initiatives since 2013 – is reflected in its Microsoft Solutions Partner status across Infrastructure, Data & AI, and Digital & App Innovation on Azure. The company also holds Specialist designations in Infrastructure and Database Migration, as well as the Advanced Analytics on Azure specialisation, renewed in 2026.
These recognitions reflect GFT’s proven delivery experience in complex production environments and reinforce its ability to modernise mission-critical systems at scale.
Scaling Modernisation Through a Dedicated Global Model
To industrialise and scale this approach globally, GFT has established a dedicated AI Modernisation Centre of Excellence (CoE). The CoE brings together specialised engineering expertise, proven transformation assets, and AI-powered tooling to support large-scale modernisation programmes across industries and regions.
With this launch, GFT positions modernisation as a business-critical transformation, helping organisations unlock the value embedded within their legacy systems and build resilient, future-ready digital platforms.
