FEATURE
ACCELERATING SOFTWARE DELIVERY WITH AGENTIC AI
How Blue Pearl used IBM Bob to transform legacy Java modernisation.
odernising legacy applications
M has become one of the most pressing priorities for enterprises across South Africa and the continent. Organisations are under growing pressure to update ageing software while controlling development costs, addressing persistent skills shortages and maintaining security across increasingly complex environments.
For Blue Pearl, a cloud solutions and consulting services company, these challenges were becoming increasingly evident as its flagship
BlueApp platform continued to grow in scale and complexity. The company’ s adoption of IBM Bob, IBM’ s agentic AI-powered software development partner, has demonstrated how AI-assisted software delivery can dramatically accelerate application modernisation while improving engineering efficiency, security and software quality.
According to Saireshan Govender, CEO of Blue Pearl, the project has become a blueprint for how agentic AI can modernise enterprise software without compromising governance or engineering oversight.
Saireshan Govender, CEO of Blue Pearl www. intelligentcio. com
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