legacy modernization

IBM Bob arrives at an uncomfortable but necessary moment for enterprise AI: code-generation agents can now move quickly enough to change production systems, while the evidence needed to explain why they acted, what they relied on, and who authorized the outcome often remains scattered across...

IBM and ServiceNow announced an expanded enterprise AI alliance on June 11, 2026, tying IBM’s watsonx, automation, data, and consulting assets to ServiceNow’s AI Platform and Workflow Data Fabric for large organizations trying to deploy agentic AI against legacy systems. The important part is...

IBM has spent the better part of two years arguing that it can use AI to make legacy systems less mysterious, less brittle, and easier to modernize. Fujitsu’s new Application Transform push raises the stakes by making that promise feel more concrete: turn COBOL into understandable design...

Costco still runs a large slice of its retail operations on the same IBM iBM midrange lineage that traces back to the AS/400 — not because the company is stuck in the past, but because the platform delivers a combination of reliability, integrated transaction processing, backward compatibility...