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Microsoft AI Tour Frankfurt: How Agentic AI Is Transforming Application Modernization

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Yesterday’s Microsoft AI Tour in Frankfurt was a powerful reminder of what happens when technology, strategy, and real-world solutions meet on the same stage.
No theory. No buzzword bingo. Just practical AI in motion.

We were there as a sponsor with Sogeti – Part of Capgemini, showcasing what AI really looks like when it moves beyond the hype: accelerating application modernization at scale, reducing technical debt, and enabling companies to become truly AI-ready.

Our booth carried exactly that message:

“This is what AI really looks like.”

Not abstract. Not future talk. Real workloads. Real code. Real business value.

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THANK YOU, MICROSOFT – AND EVERYONE WHO MADE THIS POSSIBLE

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Huge appreciation to the Microsoft team for the invitation and the platform to share our work.
Special thanks to Sandra Ahlgrimm and Julia Kordick for the outstanding partner orchestration on-site.

And of course – a massive shout-out to our own team:

• Manuel Kaiser & Kristina Peteln – for a high-impact lightning talk on Business Application Transformation – Reinvented by Agentic AI. Sharp message, strong demo, zero fluff.
• GitHub Team – for the great exchange around Copilot, Secure DevOps, and AI-assisted engineering.
• Our Alliances & Sogeti colleagues – for planning, logistics, and the “OneCapgemini” execution behind the scenes:
  Jessica Bois, Christopher Friedrich, Berry van der Stroom – and everyone who helped make booth 504 the place for deep modernization talks.

I personally had dozens of impactful discussions: CIOs, architects, platform owners, and engineering leads – all asking the same core question:

“How do we modernize our applications fast enough to benefit from AI instead of being disrupted by it?”

That question leads us straight into the real topic of the decade.

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WHY AGENTIC-AI-BASED APPLICATION MODERNIZATION MATTERS NOW

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Modernization used to be a technical initiative.
Today, it’s a survival strategy.

Legacy systems aren’t just slow or expensive. They block AI adoption. They block scalability. They block talent. They block innovation. And Operations are oftens expensive and bulky.

Agentic AI changes the game:

• 🚀 Modernization at industrial speed
  Automated code analysis, pattern detection, refactoring, and migration – executed by AI agents, not human brute force.
• 🔁 Continuous modernization, not one-time migration
  Systems evolve in sync with business, not every 7–10 years in a crisis.
• 🔐 Security & compliance by default
  Legacy risk disappears when workloads move to modern, governed, observable platforms.
• 🧠 AI-native architecture becomes standard
  Event-driven systems, microservices, Copilot-ready engineering environments, cloud-optimized cost models.

Or in simpler words:

Modernization is no longer about “upgrading tech.”
It’s about enabling the enterprise to think, act, and scale in an AI-driven world.

And that’s exactly why we built GenSuite – our AI-accelerated modernization engine that analyzes, transforms, and migrates entire application landscapes with automated agents at its core.

This isn’t PowerPoint. We’re doing it today – and the interest at the booth confirmed:
This topic just moved from IT-department level to board-level priority.

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EVENT IMPRESSIONS

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WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

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We’ll feed all learnings, conversations, and signals from Frankfurt into our upcoming modernization playbooks, Copilot adoption frameworks, and agentic-AI reference architectures.

If you’re asking yourself any of these questions…

• “How do we modernize 5,000+ apps without a 5-year budget?”
• “How do we make our landscape (Agentic-) AI-ready?”
• “How do we remove legacy blockers and enable AI everywhere?”

…then let’s talk.

The companies that master AI-driven modernization now won’t just reduce cost.
They’ll set the speed of their entire market.

Stay clever. Stay responsible. Stay scalable.
Your Mr. Microsoft,
Uwe Zabel

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Want to explore what Agentic AI-powered modernization can do for your application landscape?
Follow my journey on zabu.cloud—where cloud, AI, and business strategy converge.
Or ping me directly—because building the future works better as a team.