AI-Led Mainframe Modernization with Azure
Kyndryl Inc.
Many organizations struggle to modernize mission-critical mainframe applications due to complexity, risk, and scarce expertise—delaying innovation and increasing operational costs.
Kyndryl’s AI-led Mainframe Application Modernization service on Microsoft Azure enables faster, lower-risk transformation using AI-powered discovery, automation, and industrialized delivery.
The result is accelerated modernization at scale with continuous innovation and business continuity.
Key Value Points / Outcomes
- Accelerate large-scale transformation: Modernize complex application portfolios faster using AI-powered discovery and factory-based delivery.
- Reduce risk to critical operations: Incremental, validated modernization minimizes disruption while maintaining system stability.
- Improve visibility and decision-making: Gain actionable insights into application dependencies, risks, and optimal modernization pathways.
- Enable continuous innovation: Transition from one-time projects to an ongoing modernization model aligned with evolving business needs.
- Optimize cost and complexity: Reduce technical debt and streamline operations across hybrid environments
What’s Included
This end-to-end service provides a structured approach to modernizing mainframe applications:
- Assessment and prioritization: Evaluate portfolios and define modernization paths based on business value and risk
- Architecture and roadmap: Design Azure-based target architecture and phased transformation plans
- AI-powered discovery: Map dependencies and analyze complex environments to reduce uncertainty
- Application transformation: Execute conversion, refactoring, replatforming, or rearchitecting with AI-assisted tools
- Testing and continuous optimization: Ensure quality, performance, and ongoing modernization post-migration
Why Kyndryl + Microsoft
Kyndryl combines decades of mainframe expertise with Microsoft Azure’s AI, data, and hybrid cloud capabilities to deliver secure, scalable modernization. Together, Kyndryl and Microsoft provide an enterprise-grade, AI-led approach that helps organizations accelerate transformation while maintaining performance, resilience, and control. With a structured modernization framework, deep mainframe experience, and advanced cloud and AI skills, Kyndryl helps clients identify the right workloads to modernize at the right time, making Kyndryl and Microsoft a trusted choice for mainframe modernization.
Terms, conditions, duration, and pricing are custom to each engagement. Please contact us to discuss a solution that meets your business needs. Offer availability may be limited in some countries.