Legacy applications often limit agility, scalability, and innovation potential. Application modernization and re-platforming are essential strategies for enterprises seeking digital resilience. By 2025, businesses prefer incremental modernization—containerization, microservices refactoring, and cloud migration—over costly rewrites. This approach reduces risk, cost, and downtime while unlocking new capabilities.

Challenges include managing technical debt, preserving business logic, and coordinating with broader enterprise architectures. Successful modernization balances legacy knowledge retention with future state flexibility. Container orchestration, API enablement, and serverless architectures facilitate re-platforming to cloud-native environments. Governance and automation throughout the modernization lifecycle ensure consistent quality, security, and compliance.