Executive Summary

For decades, enterprises have been shackled by legacy systems that drain budgets, slow innovation, and put digital transformation at risk. The cost of maintaining these systems—often 60–80% of IT spend—leaves little room for reinvention. The challenge is not just migrating old platforms; it’s about reimagining how processes, data, and customer journeys should work in a digital-first world.

Pega Infinity ’25 offers a radical acceleration of this shift. Its governed, predictable transformation model allows organizations to discover hidden business logic in legacy assets, reimagine processes with AI-assisted design, and retire outdated systems faster. Together with Novitates, a specialized Pega partner, enterprises can de-risk modernization programs, deliver value faster, and unlock the agility needed to thrive in today’s competitive landscape.

The Legacy Burden: Why Transformation Is Urgent

• Hidden Complexity: Critical rules, pricing policies, and customer handling logic are often buried in decades-old code.
• Scarce Skills: COBOL and mainframe specialists are retiring, inflating costs and delaying projects.
• Risk of Paralysis: With compliance, security, and customer expectations rising, delaying modernization only increases technical debt.

Research confirms the urgency:

• McKinsey reports that 65% of enterprises already use GenAI, but value capture is contingent on rethinking operating models and modernizing legacy cores.
• Deloitte advises that legacy transformation requires re-engineering the digital core, not just lift-and-shift.
• BCG finds high-maturity firms achieve 3× ROI on GenAI investments, showing the importance of governance and modernization maturity.

Pega Infinity ’25: From Legacy to Living Blueprint

Pega Infinity ’25 reframes modernization with a “design-to-run” approach. Its key accelerator is Pega Blueprint, powered by AI agents that analyze legacy artifacts—policies, case histories, business logic—and summarize them into case types, data models, and workflows.

This means:

1. Weeks, not months, of discovery — Legacy logic is extracted and documented faster.
2. Governed redesign — New workflows follow Pega’s guardrails, ensuring compliance and auditability.
3. Predictable cutovers — Legacy capabilities can be retired slice by slice, reducing risk.

Instead of long, costly rewrites, enterprises get a living blueprint that compresses months of analysis into actionable models ready to re-platform.

The Novitates Advantage in Legacy Transformation

As a pure-play Pega partner, Novitates helps enterprises make Infinity ’25 real. Our approach blends technical depth, delivery accelerators, and domain expertise to ensure modernization delivers outcomes.

• Accelerated Discovery: Novitates teams configure and fine-tune Pega Blueprint to map your legacy environment into a governed to-be design.
• Industry-Specific Templates: From financial services to insurance and telecom, we deploy reusable components that reduce rebuild effort.
• Governance Built In: Our delivery model ensures compliance, testing, and audit are embedded—not bolted on.
• Safe Decommissioning: Novitates engineers design “strangler patterns” to retire legacy without disrupting customer experience.

Business Impact and KPIs

Enterprises working with Novitates and Pega Infinity ’25 can expect measurable improvements:

• Discovery Compression: Up to 70% faster blueprinting of legacy systems.
• Retirement Velocity: 20–30% more legacy functions decommissioned per quarter.
• Operational Agility: Faster time-to-market for new features.
• Risk Reduction: Audit trails, SLAs, and decisioning ensure compliant modernization.