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Application Modernization Services

Unlock the value of your digital business by modernizing your applications

What we do

Transform your applications at scale to enable business agility

Legacy enterprise applications can significantly strain technology budgets and operations due to high maintenance costs and lack of agility to adapt to evolving business needs. Their complexity, scalability and lack of integration often lead to poor customer experience and operational bottlenecks.

Kyndryl offers the expertise, methodologies and tools for secure and scalable transformation of your SAP and Oracle ERP systems, as well as other commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), custom and mainframe applications. With decades of experience in complex, mission-critical systems, we can modernize your applications portfolio, integrate AI and deliver transformation aligned to your business, functionality, security and compliance goals.

how kyndryl helps

Our application modernization capabilities

Optimizing the value of your applications

Our end-to-end services help optimize your business applications across various environments, including public, private, and hybrid clouds. We specialize in modernizing legacy applications using cloud-native architectures, enhancing performance, security, and reducing technical debt. Our expertise extends to leveraging cloud and edge services, transforming your IT operations to improve business operations and gain a competitive edge.

Enabling successful modernization with expertise and tools

Application modernization involves upgrading legacy applications using new computer languages, cloud-native architectures and coding practices. You can either migrate the application to the cloud without making significant changes to the code or functionality or move the application to the cloud and update the code to be as cloud native as possible. Kyndryl’s consultants and experts can help you make informed decisions and accelerate the migration and modernization process, ensuring predictable outcomes through collaboration.

Helping to manage complexity and risks of disruption 

Kyndryl excels in modernizing legacy systems and integrating them with new technologies such as AI to drive business value while minimizing disruption. We use our IP assets including automation frameworks and tools to accelerate transformation. Our expertise spans across modernizing, implementing and managing mission-critical ERP and non-ERP systems, focusing on infrastructure and data layer interdependencies. We can integrate AI into applications at any stage, improving user experiences and data analysis. Additionally, we leverage custom architectures as well as the Kyndryl Bridge platform to boost application responsiveness while enabling observability and improving operational efficiency.

Why work with us?

Improved business agility
Accelerate development cycles and deploy and scale components independently, facilitating faster response to market needs while reducing technical debt.
Faster time to market
Leverage modern design principles and technologies to create intuitive and responsive applications that contribute to a seamless user experience and faster time to market.
Reliability and resilience
We use best practices, proven reference architectures, and automation to securely deliver application modernization, minimizing downtime and enhancing business resilience.

What we're thinking about application modernization

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Transform applications to improve business agility and user experience

Modernize your applications portfolio – from mainframe to back-office business applications – in a faster, more predictable, secure, and scalable manner, including planning, assessment, DevSecOps-driven development, and management.

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Everest Application Transformation Services PEAK Matrix Assessment, North America, 2024

Kyndryl is positioned as a Major Contender in the Everest Application Transformation Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2024, North America.

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4 steps to understanding your mainframe applications – before you modernize

Acquiring a deep understanding of your applications and data is a process. Generally, organizations need to go through four phases of exploration and discovery

Customer stories
Enabling our customers in their application modernization journey
Transforming motor vehicle services to enhance driver experiences

Arizona MVD achieves its vision of delivering fast, efficient, and citizen-friendly services by completely re-architecting back-end and front-end processes and rebuilding applications.
Enhancing efficiency and agility with Kyndryl’s Cloud and SAP ERP upgrades

Grupo Romero strategically tackles complex IT transformation at scale, including decentralization of IT and carve-out of its sophisticated SAP ERP for its group companies.
Optimizing operational costs and customer experience through cloud modernization

National Australia Bank and Kyndryl improved the bank’s customer experience by enhancing the resiliency of critical business applications through a cloud migration to Microsoft Azure.

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