TCS Releases AI-Powered Solution 'MasterCraft' For Modernising Legacy Enterprise Systems
The solution automates the process of modernising legacy applications, reducing the cost and time required for manual conversions.
Enterprises on a digital transformation journey have a pressing need to overcome the challenge of large legacy applications and data, including growing technology debt, high maintenance costs, lack of subject matter experts and limited documentation.
Most modernisation solutions focus on legacy conversions and are expensive for delivering complex programmes.
To overcome these challenges, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. has released the latest version of its MasterCraft solution, augmented with generative artificial intelligence and agentic AI. This solution automates the process of modernising legacy applications, thereby reducing the cost and time required for manual conversions.
In addition, converting an old application to a new technology could result in another outdated system and result in poor maintainability. A solution like MasterCraft powered by gen AI and agentic AI reduces the risk of obsolescence and ensures sustainability.
TCS cited an example of one of North America's largest banks, which has used MasterCraft to transform its mainframe applications. It achieved 2X productivity savings during modernisation and 3X faster delivery than traditional approaches. A central knowledge repository was also created with 90% effort savings.
"Enterprises have large applications in multiple technologies and architectures over decades," Ashvini Saxena, head of TCS Components Engineering Group and Digital Software and Solutions, said. "Solutions commercially available to the enterprises currently make it expensive to deliver such modernisation programmes."
"We have leveraged gen AI and agentic AI capabilities for extraction of business knowledge and conversion to augment this capability to deliver maintainable applications and data with a powerful design repository," Saxena said.
The agentic AI augmentation brings together TCS' knowledge base, best practices and agents to solve challenges that are unique to different types of complex modernisation programmes, at the same time allowing human decision making throughout the process.
"As businesses undergo digital transformation, enterprises are reassessing their heritage environments, prioritising integration with cloud platforms and modernising legacy applications," Zachariah Chirayil, practice director of market research firm Everest Group, said. "TCS MasterCraft supports enterprises in modernising mainframe applications, facilitating monolithic application rearchitecting to microservices, and optimising mainframe workloads."
