Making the AI-powered case for legacy modernization
Executive Take
AI cut this legacy migration's timeline by 60%, turning a multi-year risk project into a months-long one. Leaders sitting on aging systems no longer have a cost excuse to wait.
Executive Summary
Bupa migrated its My Bupa app from end-of-life Xamarin to native Swift and Kotlin with Infosys, using AI-assisted reverse and forward engineering. The project, planned for 18 months, took 7. App rating rose from 3.7 to 4.7, crash rates fell, and it launched with zero security defects.
Why It Matters
Technology leaders holding off on legacy modernization because of cost and risk now have a concrete counterexample. HR leaders should note the case for freeing staff from institutional-memory burden through AI documentation.
Bizquad Perspective
The real lesson isn't the tech stack swap, it's that Bupa treated shrinking specialist talent as the bigger risk than the old code itself, something most leaders still underweight.