Application modernization helps businesses in transforming their legacy systems into new applications. The transformation works towards integrating latest features and functionalities to the current business. 360Quadrants has identified the top 10 application modernization service providers. 

Top 10 Application Modernization Companies

  1. IBM Corporation
  2. Accenture
  3. HCL
  4. Aspire Systems
  5. Microsoft Corporation
  6. Oracle
  7. Blu Age
  8. Cognizant
  9. Tech Mahindra
  10. Interra Information Technologies

Top Application Modernization Features

Legacy technology and IT infrastructure can create a problem. Application modernization services facilitate the movement of legacy systems to new applications or platforms, with the addition of new functionality to offer the modern functions to the business. Modernization possibilities include re-platforming, re-hosting, recoding, replacement and withdrawal, as well as modifications to the application architecture to clarify which option should be selected. Some of the main features include:

  1. Seamless User Experience
  2. API Integrations
  3. Recommendation Engines
  4. Conversational Interfaces
  5. Mainframe Data Connectivity
  6. Application Analysis
  7. Application Integration
  8. Devops
  9. Platform Rehosting
  10. Green-Screen Modernization
  11. Mobilization
  12. Service Enablement

Top 10 New Entrants in Application Modernization

These new entrants are the firms that have a great understanding of the latest technologies and trends, right from their inception. These companies may not be so widespread geographically, but they have offerings. These vendors are generally the ones who are beginning to emerge in terms of product portfolio and geographical coverage, and will need some time to gain traction in the market. Some of the emerging new entrants are:

  1. Astadia
  2. Cyber Infrastructure
  3. Espire Infolabs Pvt Ltd
  4. Advanced Computer Software
  5. Sodifrance
  6. Metaware
  7. Future Processing
  8. Hexon Global LLC
  9. RapidValue
  10. XB Software Ltd

The application modernization services market is projected to go from a value of USD 6.87 billion in 2017 to reach USD 16.67 billion by 2022 at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 19.4% during the period above. The market is likely to be driven by the increasing demand for agility in businesses to reduce the time-to-market. The use of big data and cloud computing is also expected to drive the market.

COMPETITIVE LEADERSHIP MAPPING TERMINOLOGY

The MicroQuadrant provides information about the major players who offer application modernization services. It outlines the findings and analysis on how well each market vendor performs within the predefined MicroQuadrant criteria. The vendor evaluations are based on 2 broad categories: strength of product portfolio and business strategy excellence. Each category carries various criteria, based on which the vendors have been evaluated. The evaluation criteria considered under the strength of product portfolio includes breadth and depth of service offering (on the basis of the industries that the vendors cater to, solutions, and service offerings), service feature/functionality (on the basis of the overall capabilities of the services), focus on service innovation (on the basis of R&D activities for new service innovations), and service differentiation and impact on customer value (on the basis of the services’ unique qualities and the impact they have on the customers’ buying decision). The evaluation criteria considered under the business strategy excellence include the effectiveness of the growth strategy (on the basis of partnerships and revenue generation), channel strategy and fit (on the basis of the channel partners that the vendors cater to), geographic footprint (on the basis of geographic presence), and mergers and acquisitions strategy (on the basis of the company’s key mergers/acquisitions or partnership deals in the last couple of years).

VISIONARY LEADERS

IBM Cloud Migration Factory, Fujitsu Global Application Modernization, Accenture Application portfolio assessment services, Capgemini Collaborative Business Experience, Tech Mahindra Application Modernization, Dell, CGI Group, HCL Legacy Modernization, Avanade, Hexaware Technologies, Virtusa, Cognizant Rapid Mobilization Tool, Oracle Modernization Service, Wipro, ATOS Application Transformation and Management, and Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernization have been recognized as the visionary leaders in the application modernization services market. They have a strong portfolio of services and these vendors have been marking their market presence by offering customized services as per the IT requirement of the companies. The growth strategies of these companies have helped them advance consistently in the market.

DYNAMIC DIFFERENTIATORS

Idexcel and OSSCube have been recognized as the dynamic differentiators in the application modernization services market. These companies have an innovative portfolio of services. They also have an extensive network of channel partners and resellers to increase the deployment of their services across a multitude of verticals. The dynamic vendors have been consistently generating a positive revenue growth in the market, and their market position is boosted by their organic and inorganic ventures.

INNOVATORS

Bell Integrator Language-to-Language Conversion, Macrosoft Legacy Application Modernization, Sensiple, Nous Infosystems, Advanced Computer Software, Asysco B.V., and UST Global Legacy Modernization Services are recognized as the innovators in the market. These companies possess innovative services to cater to the future mobility demands. They focus on their service portfolio and have the robust potential to build strong business strategies for expanding their business and staying at par with the visionary leaders. These vendors have been consistently offering application modernization services to fulfill customers’ demands. The innovators have been at the forefront for deploying their services

EMERGING COMPANIES

Astadia and Cyber Infrastructure (P) Limited are recognized as the emerging companies in the market. The majority of the emerging vendors have been undertaking multiple acquisitions to boost their sales capabilities across various regions for offering services to a wide range.
 

Application Modernization Services Market Overview

This market has been studied and analyzed for the following segments: services, organization size, verticals, and regions. By service, application integration is expected to dominate with the largest market share as a result of the increasing need to integrate existing legacy applications and databases with new ones in order to update them. By growth rate, application replatforming is projected to lead during the forecast period. New platforms offer more scalability and flexibility for faster application development.

By organization size, the largest market share is projected for large enterprises during the forecast period. This can be attributed to the need to reduce high Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) and Operational Expenditure (OPEX) of these organizations. Large enterprises, with high budgets for IT, employ in-house resources for application modernization services. Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) are expected to exhibit the highest CAGR since the adoption of the lift-and-shift migration strategy is high among these organizations, which enables their businesses to scale and grow faster.

Among verticals, Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) is projected to dominate in terms of market share during the forecast period, as a result of digital transformation through new technologies and modernization of existing applications. The manufacturing vertical is projected to witness the highest CAGR; this could be a result of the need to improve operational processes, reduce costs, launch products faster, and eliminate location barriers.

By region, the largest projected market share for the forecast period is that of North America. Early adoption of application modernization services along with the high number of related projects are expected to drive market growth here. By growth rate, Asia Pacific (APAC) is expected to lead this market. This high growth rate can be a result of the increased spending on infrastructure improvements and the use of big data and cloud computing technologies.

Despite a high growth rate, the application modernization services market faces limitations due to the significantly high investments in legacy systems, which restrain the deployment of advanced service technologies.

Best Application Modernization Services 2022

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UST Global considers legacy modernization as a catalyst to unlock new opportunities and provide clients with maximum business value. The company helps reduce the total cost of ownership. The company undertakes an ROI-based portfolio approach in applying modernization tools and frameworks.

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Withumsmith and Brown's application modernization services focus on increasing overall productivity. Through a detailed analysis of the user's architecture, they uncover outdated processes and ineffective systems and provide suggestions for business process automation opportunities. They also specialize in upgrading legacy applications and platforms that have become sluggish or unsupported – protecting the users against potential security threats and younger, more agile competitors.
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ISHIR has developed a Migration Approach that incorporates their proven project management methodology with straightforward migration techniques. Their Migration Approach has evolved with their experience in migrating applications, databases, and operating systems platforms in a wide variety of technical environments.
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PITSS.CON tool is the all-in-one legacy code analysis and transformation platform. PITSS.CON analyzes the code and extracts the business rules. It also offers modern solutions to legacy system integration, connecting the usre's business with modern technology and platforms like Salesforce, Microsoft Azure, and more.
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Kumaran Systems' application modernization solution is unique because of a number of reasons: It identifies business-critical scenarios that are currently invisible or not documented. It provides functional or acceptance test cases for the target application. Application is tested by Legacy modernization testing experts. A robust and proven test methodology ensures reduced risk and cost for legacy modernization testing.
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Clavax's legacy modernization approach features an exquisite range of services incorporating a comprehensive service-oriented architecture (SOA) model to deliver a simpler, cost-effective & scalable ecosystem. The company helps users to migrate to modern platforms while maintaining their data and business logic. The company uses this data and business logic to integrate the system into other modernised systems.
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The core focus area of Espire's application modernization strategy is to retain essential legacy applications and modernize & optimize (upgrade or migrate) them effectively to enable modern functionalities and ensure agility. Espire’s pool of specialized techno-functional application development consultants functioning as a seamless extension of your IT staff that can be ramped-up and scaled down as required. Service delivery excellence, with Espire being one of the few global companies which is ISO 20000-1:2011, ISO 22301:2012, ISO 27001:2013 and ISO 9001:2015 certified and CMMI Level 5 Ver 1.3 Appraised (DEV+SVC)
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Legacy transformation and legacy modernization services by Asysco allow clients to retain the value of critical business applications while continuing business growth and innovation. Asysco provides a migration solution that converts mission-critical legacy applications to new technology which can be deployed in the Cloud or on the client’s own commodity hardware. Asysco works with customers to reduce cost, increase business alignment, and mitigate risk.
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Sensiple Application Modernization solutions help clients undertake the modernization of legacy systems in order to reduce disruption, improve flexibility, mitigate risk, and decrease costs. Sensiple’s services address issues like high maintenance costs, numerous technology platforms, unsupported systems, lack of integration, shrinking employee expertise, and web capabilities in the legacy system.

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Macrosoft Application Development solutions combine its comprehensive knowledge of the business domain with cutting-edge technological skills for the delivery of next-generation applications. Macrosoft relies on Agile methodology to allow for shorter development cycles and swifter project completion.

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The application development life cycle used by Idexcel is cloud-centric, allowing the company to analyze the cloud compatibility of applications and identify the potential for modernization. The company uses the Agile framework in a phased approach towards application modernization. It allows clients to leverage the cloud with an aim to accelerate business growth.

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Happiest Minds has expertise in application modernization services in Open Source Software. It offers its services to businesses that are adopting digital technologies with an aim to build new and innovative business models. Its solutions reduce time-to-market, optimize business processes, empower the workforce, and personalize the customer experience.

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Sodifrance's service and skills platform provides an effective response to the complexity of applications modernization and information systems transformation projects. Based on an automated transformation, Sodifrance's solutions bring reliability and efficiency.
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Metaware's application modernization solutions are a cost effective way to reduce OPEX by 90% and enable the digital transformation of the legacy applications. The solution also removes manual effort with automated release management, continuous integration, and continuous deployment processes.
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JANUS Studio®, developed by The Software Revolution, Inc. (TSRI) over the past 2 decades, is the most advanced tool framework for software assessment, documentation, transformation, refactoring and web-enablement. JANUS Studio® allows TSRI's staff to use Artificial Intelligence-based modeling to complete fully automated modernization projects, with much greater sophisitication and value than other approaches. Intermediate Object Model – A Model for Legacy Code Conversion. The IOM is TSRI's language-neutral model into which all legacy source languages are transformed, and from which all modernized target languages are generated. The IOM is effectively a universal language modelling system. Object Management Group Membership - TSRI is uncompromising in its adherence to the Object Management Group (OMG) principles of model-based driven architecture, and in fact, TSRI is the principal author of the Abstract Syntax Tree Meta-Modelling Standard used by the OMG. JPGEN™ defines compact and efficient grammar systems for mapping application source code into model bases.
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Raincode offers ASM370, COBOL & PL/I compiler and tools to migrate mainframe to .NET and Azure Having a COBOL or a PL/I past that stops from building more COBOL and PL/I code forever. With a modern compiler for obsolescent languages, you can take your applications off of the mainframe, run on a Windows platform and develop new programs seamlessly in C# in an integrated Visual Studio environment. With our technologies, none of the mainframe’s pitfalls, like ASM 370, CICS, DB2 or JCL, can prevent you from migrating to .NET and Azure.

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Cyber Infrastructure upgrades and modernizes legacy IT systems by adding value to them. The services provided by Cyber Infrastructure include application migration, application assessment for modernization, application re-platforming, application remediation, and data migration, among others. Cyber Infrastructure aids clients in risk minimization, increasing operational efficiency, generating higher revenue, minimizing disruptions, and optimizing application performance.

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Mphasis offers a wide range of services that modernize legacy applications and enhance application management. Over 950 consultants, a unique Maintenance2Modernization approach, and a proprietary automation tool—NGTrans—enable the company to transform application performance through capability assessment, portfolio analysis, and legacy modernization. In addition, their Source Object and Code Analyzer (SOCA) and COBOL Explorer, Analyzer, and DocuMentor (CEAD) tools work with codes that are compliable without errors and generate customizable MIS reports for code stocks.
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Astadia modernizes infrastructure and applications by migrating them to the cloud, allowing clients to benefit from improved app performance and agility. With Astadia, clients can unblock constrained mainframes, unlock mainframe dependency, and deploy better architecture.

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Products from Transformix Software are the leading Legacy migration and modernization tools for the IBM Midrange and MPE/iX markets. Sungard Bi-tech Transport has been in continuous use since 1988 in hundreds of companies and organizations worldwide. Transformix Transport is the easiest to use, fastest to deploy and most cost effective method of migrating and modernizing MPE/iX applications to UNIX, Linux or Windows.
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Future processing provides a complete solution service to improve the efficiency of business for increasing the experience of the customer or generate the bottom line. Assisted software modernization is a service that will ease the challenge of working with legacy systems that stop your business from growing. Future processing completes the delivery within timeframes, and the team maintains open line communication and resources effectively as well as this platform is adaptable and organized, which adapts the preferred communication method of consumers and clients. 

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Hexon Global specializes in building Collaborative Solutions on top of SharePoint, Cloud Infrastructure deployments on Azure & Amazon Web Services, Analytics & BI along with a special focus on Mobile & Custom Apps. specialize in building Collaborative Solutions on top of SharePoint, Cloud Infrastructure deployments on Azure & Amazon Web Services, Analytics & BI along with a special focus on Mobile & Custom Apps.
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Imaginea assist the user in every step of the product journey. It helps companies through disruptive technology drive innovation or creation that assist the user to catch new opportunities in the marketplace. It provides well designed orchestrated small services from existing monolithic applications with APIs. Imaginea assist the user in DevOps adoption and automate delivery pipelines, which diminishes deployment time and effort. With this software, the user gets both speed and safety & security.

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Rapidvalue offers application management software, Rapidvalue re-engineered the forecast module it can extract the same information on the reports module. Amortization changes and costs changes are complete by station, program, and date ranges. After re-engineering, it has the potential to extract data and reports based on date ranges. Reporting selection is base on filters available like- program category, network affiliation, acquisition, inactive, region.

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Alfabet Cloud by Software AG is the IT Portfolio Management Platform that offers decision-makers with insight into the IT portfolio to create the correct IT investment choices and to arrange how it'll support the business in the future. Software Alfabet Cloud is an open and freelance cloud platform and users one-stop-shop for all things software Alfabet offers as a cloud service. It’s a new, secure, and reliable PaaS portal that gives control to an ever-expanding set of integrated cloud services.

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Cloud by Trimax Americas means different things to different organizations, and the solution tailors according to business requirements. Trimax Americas has recognized a structured approach by establishing a smooth transition to "Cloud of Choice," a different approach that is cloud technology agnostic to accomplish client success instead of cloud supplier success. Trimax Americas provides several cloud services that alter SMB to Enterprise customers rewrite their cloud success stories. However, the journey to the cloud is through a rough road unless the user decides the right partner to guide them through every step.
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Application modernization services are offered by XB Software that assists the user to renew and improve the value of web-based applications through migration to a new platform by using modern programming languages, web-friendly. It involves re-designing, re-developing and unite of the legacy system into efficiency. Application modernization helps to make a new business value from existing applications and boost competitiveness, revenue and enhancing market positioning.

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