This guide walks through a practical, seven-step framework for building a software modernization strategy from initial assessment through execution, and where AI meaningfully changes how each step is delivered.

Legacy application maintenance consumes up to 80% of total enterprise IT budgets. That’s not just inefficiency, it is a structural cost problem that starves innovation and expands security exposure. At the same time, the execution model is changing. AI-accelerated execution is compressing modernization timelines that once spanned years into months. But speed alone is not the differentiator. The organizations seeing meaningful results are not just using AI, they are applying it within a structured, architect-led delivery model to accelerate discovery, transformation…