Cognizant is expanding its strategic partnership with Pegasystems to help enterprises modernize legacy systems with a more adaptive, AI-centric approach. The collaboration combines Cognizant’s agentic AI services and rapid prototyping tools with Pegasystems’ Pega Blueprint platform to streamline discovery, design, and deployment of next-gen enterprise systems.Rather than rely on traditional lift-and-shift migrations—which often replicate existing inefficiencies in new environments—enterprises can now rethink core processes and reduce the hidden costs of legacy tech: high maintenance overhead, poor customer experience, and limited real-time visibility. The expanded collaboration between Cognizant and Pegasystems seeks to shift modernization from a cost-reduction initiative to a strategic transformation effort.Blueprint + Bluebolt = faster path to MVPsA key component of the joint effort is the integration of Pega Blueprint with Cognizant’s internal innovation programs, including Bluebolt. The goal is to help teams rapidly convert ideas into working MVPs using low-code tools, AI-assisted process mapping, and business rule extraction. This shift not only accelerates transformation but also reduces the manual effort typically required in legacy discovery and documentation.The combined framework enables delivery teams to build, test, and scale AI-native applications directly on the Pega Infinity platform—supporting everything from customer onboarding and claims processing to back-office automation.Focus on code rewrite, rule extraction, and operational alignmentCognizant is also bringing its legacy modernization IP to the table, including its AI-driven code rewrite workbench. This allows teams to extract logic, data, and workflows embedded in legacy applications and reimplement them in cloud-ready environments. By aligning legacy modernization with operational priorities, the approach moves beyond infrastructure upgrades and supports real business outcomes—like improved responsiveness, process standardization, and reduced tech debt.The expanded partnership comes at a time when more enterprises are revisiting their transformation strategies and moving toward AI-powered, agent-led architectures that can adapt to change and scale intelligently. For enterprises looking to replace outdated core systems with something more resilient and intelligent, this collaboration offers a structured but flexible starting point.
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Cognizant and Pegasystems Expand Partnership to Drive AI-Led Enterprise Legacy Modernization
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