Zero-Cost AI-Led Modernization Discovery

Perficient's Zero-Cost AI-Led Modernization Discovery removes the single biggest barrier to modernization: the lack of factual data. In three weeks, Perficient configures and operates AWS Transform to assess your on-premises infrastructure, mainframe, and legacy application portfolio at no cost to you. The platform's AI agents collect server inventory and utilization data, map network dependencies, analyze mainframe source code, and score application complexity across your VMware vCenter, Microsoft Hyper-V, bare metal, IBM z/OS, .NET Framework, SQL Server, and Java codebases. Every discovery engagement produces four deliverables: an Evidence Pack of raw AWS Transform artifacts, a Findings Register of evidence-backed risks and observations, an Opportunity Backlog of SOW-ready work packages, and a Decision Pack formatted for executive review. No production workloads are modified during the engagement, and no customer data leaves your AWS account.

Perficient's consultants go beyond what the platform produces on its own. Our team validates findings against your known environment, identifies gaps and anomalies, and translates complexity scores and cost models into the business-risk language your CFO and IT leadership need to move a modernization budget request forward. Discovery modules are selected based on your environment: Infrastructure Discovery and Migration Readiness covers server estate migration wave planning and EC2 right-sizing; Migration Economics delivers on-premises TCO versus AWS run-rate comparison for up to 30,000 servers; Mainframe Discovery addresses IBM z/OS modernization readiness including data lineage, SMF activity analysis, and decomposition planning; and Transform Custom PoC validates automated transformation patterns for .NET, Java, SQL Server, or custom codebases with repeating technical debt.

This offering relates to AWS Transform, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon EC2, AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP), and the AWS Migration Evaluator. It is designed for organizations at the beginning of a cloud migration or application modernization conversation, those facing infrastructure cost pressure from VMware licensing changes following the Broadcom acquisition, those with mainframe operations exposed to a narrowing specialist talent pool, and those whose modernization initiatives have stalled for lack of an approved business case. The discovery findings are structured to scope and justify follow-on Perficient modernization engagements directly, with no additional scoping exercise required.