TLDR: Hexaware has released a comprehensive strategic guide detailing how organizations can leverage generative AI to modernize their legacy systems, addressing challenges like outdated technology, security vulnerabilities, and slow adaptation to digital demands. The guide emphasizes AI-first approaches, automation, and cloud integration to accelerate transformation and drive new business outcomes.
Hexaware, a global leader in IT solutions and consulting services, has published a strategic guide focused on the transformative power of generative AI in modernizing legacy systems. This initiative comes as businesses increasingly face the imperative to move beyond traditional ‘lift-and-shift‘ strategies, seeking smarter, more efficient cloud models and AI-ready applications.
The guide highlights Hexaware’s ‘AI-First Legacy Modernization‘ approach, which aims to embed AI at the core of application transformation roadmaps. This strategy is designed to help industry leaders overcome business disruptions and build next-generation AI applications, leveraging cloud platforms like Microsoft and AWS to shape new business outcomes.
Legacy systems pose significant challenges for enterprises, including their inability to support modern capabilities like AI or seamless cloud integration. Reports indicate that a substantial percentage of businesses are hindered in their digital transformation efforts due to outdated technology. These systems are also more susceptible to security breaches and failures, with each patch or workaround adding complexity and creating vulnerabilities. Furthermore, their slow adaptation to evolving regulatory demands increases the risk of non-compliance.
Hexaware’s strategic guide and services directly address these pain points. The company emphasizes automation, templates, and factory-led approaches to accelerate modernization at scale, simultaneously reducing risks and costs. Practical learnings from enterprises that have successfully reimagined their legacy estates through AI, automation, and cloud innovation are also a key component.
Central to Hexaware’s offerings are its flagship platforms for legacy modernization: RapidX™, Amaze®, and Tensai®. RapidX™ utilizes GenAI to decode legacy systems, mitigate risks, and fast-track agile, scalable, and future-ready digital transformation. Amaze® for cloud migration automation accelerates legacy modernization with AI-powered assessments, code conversion, and deployment. Tensai® further speeds up the process with a GenAI low-code DevSecOps framework, enabling faster and more secure CI/CD.
Hexaware’s Amaze platform, in particular, is touted for its ability to modernize legacy applications with unprecedented speed, quality, and cost savings through automation, minimizing human intervention. The company claims to deliver results in a matter of weeks, with successful pilot projects demonstrating complete analysis and assessment in a week and full engagement delivery in four weeks, with minimal client dependency. Amaze not only migrates applications to modern platforms but also transforms monolithic applications into microservices and enables API integration, providing scalable environments for new applications.
This strategic focus on generative AI in modernization has garnered industry recognition. Hexaware was recently positioned as an Emerging Leader in the Emerging Market Quadrant of the 2025 Gartner® Innovation Guide for Generative AI Consulting and Implementation Services. This recognition, published on July 17, 2025, underscores Hexaware’s capability to convert generative AI pilots into enterprise-scale solutions that deliver measurable business value. Hexaware’s GenAI practice integrates industry-specific starter kits, secure accelerators, and a Responsible AI framework covering consulting, build, and managed-service phases.
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Through these comprehensive strategies and advanced platforms, Hexaware aims to empower organizations to overcome the limitations of their legacy infrastructure and embrace a future-ready, AI-driven digital landscape.
