As enterprises accelerate digital transformation, many are reassessing how mission-critical mainframe applications can support future business requirements. The growing demand for agility, innovation, cloud adoption, and AI-led business transformation is driving organizations to modernize legacy environments through strategic, phased approaches that balance transformation goals with operational resilience.

Everest Group has positioned Wipro as a Leader in the Mainframe Modernization Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2026. According to Everest Group, Leaders combine broad end-to-end modernization capabilities with AI-led modernization, industrialized transformation execution, deep modernization talent, and strong ecosystem partnerships to support enterprise-scale modernization programs.

Enterprises benefit from Wipro's AI-led modernization capabilities, structured assessment frameworks, and deep expertise in workload transformation. By combining solutions such as AI-PEDIA, Monolithic Decomposer, FactoryAI, WEGA, and WINGS with outcome-focused modernization strategies, Wipro helps organizations assess, prioritize, decompose, and modernize legacy workloads while reducing transformation risk and accelerating business value realization.

"Mainframe modernization is entering a phase defined by strategic precision. Enterprises are selectively transforming mission-critical workloads while balancing operational resilience with the agility their growth agendas demand. Wipro's capabilities around retire-and-replace-led modernization, along with its value assessment framework, support workload-level assessment and modernization sequencing. Wipro's AI-PEDIA and monolithic decomposer further support discovery and workload decomposition, enabling a more structured and repeatable approach to phased modernization. Together, these capabilities contribute to Wipro's position as a Leader in Everest Group's Mainframe Modernization Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2026," said Lalith Kumar, Practice Director, Everest Group.

Key Differentiators

  • AI-led discovery and phased modernization proposition
  • Retire-and-replace modernization capabilities with our distinctive workload elimination and substitution depth
  • The Modernization Value assessment framework that helps quantify TCO reduction, performance improvement, risk reduction and business agility

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