KPMG Ignite | Blaze
End-to-end acceleration for your journey to a modern enterprise
Technology innovation is no longer optional—it's the catalyst for transformation, modernization, and value creation – enabling organizations to seize strategic advantage. KPMG Ignite | Blaze is our advanced, GenAI-driven approach to transforming legacy technology platforms and accelerating new platform builds while revolutionizing the traditional economics of modernization initiatives. Our field-tested solution delivers cost and timeline reductions for legacy code and technology modernization initiatives —modernizing technology in half the time, at half the cost ¹.
This modernization platform helps you meet current and future business needs through holistic transformation of outdated technology into modern, cloud-native solutions. It includes our suite of AI-powered methodologies, automated conversion tools, and accelerators designed to help you update and improve your technology infrastructure, systems, and practices.
We're rewriting the rules of how software is built and delivered.
Blaze goes beyond traditional migration approaches. Our solution automates the entire modernization lifecycle. This enables your organization to reduce technical debt, embrace automation, leverage new technologies, and achieve measurable business outcomes with significantly reduced risk and accelerated timelines.
Blaze provides an integrated modernization platform that delivers:
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GenAI-powered end-to-end automation
comprehensive modernization covering requirements extraction, code generation, automated testing, remediation, and deployment pipeline generation
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Estimated economic impact
50-80% reduction in delivery and legacy system costs and 10x improvement in speed to market and migration timelines¹
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Increased quality
In terms of generated code, test coverage and documentation
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Targeted technology-specific solutions
Tailored pre- and post-processing logic for each technology use case with higher efficiency than manual conversions
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Knowledge graph visualization
Interactive data lineage mapping and dependency analysis for complex system understanding
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Agent-based testing and remediation
Dynamic adaptation to code changes with automated issue resolution with adjustable temperature settings for AI agents to control remediation aggressiveness
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Outcome-based delivery mode
Professional services with reduced financial risk as we assume responsibility for contracted cost and timeline delivery
Footnote:
1 KPMG proprietary data, 2025
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Our offerings
We built a suite of AI-powered modernization solutions designed to transform your legacy IT infrastructure into modern, scalable architecture while delivering measurable business value.
Legacy Application and Code Modernization
Transform your legacy applications with our GenAI-powered platform that delivers automated, end-to-end modernization. Our targeted code conversion capabilities are specifically designed for each technology use case, providing:
- Automated code conversion modernization with up to 50-90% development time reduction¹
- Legacy code decomposition for systematic logic extraction and improved understanding
- Business requirements mapping enabling accurate translation through pattern recognition
- Future-state generation including backend APIs, data models, and UI components
- Infrastructure as Code integration with CI/CD pipelines
- Knowledge base powered by an Intelligent agent with the ability to provide interactive answers for both technical and business questions
- Searchable application and architecture repository built from auto-generated detailed documentation
Data Pipeline & Analytics Modernization
Transform legacy data workloads with Blaze's intelligent capabilities:
- Legacy and/ or proprietary to cloud native, open-source conversion
- Data lineage traceability for regulatory compliance —especially critical for financial services
- Automated pipeline generation with improved documentation
- Report validation and modernization frameworks
- Field-level data mapping extracted directly from source code
Model Modernization
Reduce the cost of financial model risk management and improve business capabilities by leveraging modern risk models and newer platforms:
- Legacy and or proprietary to cloud native, open-source conversion
- Model documentation and validation
Integration Modernization
Enable rapid development and migration of application integration platforms to power business and technology modernization:
- Support for modern, event driven architectures
- Conversion from legacy integrations to modern, cloud native microservices
Low-Code, No Code Modernization
Accelerate your transition to modern low-code platforms with Blaze's intelligent conversion capabilities:
- Automated workflow extraction and business process mapping
- Requirements generation including user stories and acceptance criteria
- Business rules simulation and validation
- Platform migration with reduced manual effort
- Process standardization across diverse legacy systems
- Direct export to JIRA for streamlined project management
Mainframe Modernization
Our approach to mainframe transformation leverages Blaze's powerful capabilities to modernize complex mainframe systems with:
- Accelerated migration up to 10x faster than traditional approaches
- Automated requirements extraction from legacy COBOL, PL/SQL, and other mainframe languages
- Testing framework with agent-based execution and remediation
- Transformation from legacy to cloud-native architectures
- Auto-generated functional descriptions in plain English for improved understanding
Legacy Application and Code
Legacy Application and Code Modernization
Transform your legacy applications with our GenAI-powered platform that delivers automated, end-to-end modernization. Our targeted code conversion capabilities are specifically designed for each technology use case, providing:
- Automated code conversion modernization with up to 50-90% development time reduction¹
- Legacy code decomposition for systematic logic extraction and improved understanding
- Business requirements mapping enabling accurate translation through pattern recognition
- Future-state generation including backend APIs, data models, and UI components
- Infrastructure as Code integration with CI/CD pipelines
- Knowledge base powered by an Intelligent agent with the ability to provide interactive answers for both technical and business questions
- Searchable application and architecture repository built from auto-generated detailed documentation
Data Pipeline & Analytics
Data Pipeline & Analytics Modernization
Transform legacy data workloads with Blaze's intelligent capabilities:
- Legacy and/ or proprietary to cloud native, open-source conversion
- Data lineage traceability for regulatory compliance —especially critical for financial services
- Automated pipeline generation with improved documentation
- Report validation and modernization frameworks
- Field-level data mapping extracted directly from source code
Models
Model Modernization
Reduce the cost of financial model risk management and improve business capabilities by leveraging modern risk models and newer platforms:
- Legacy and or proprietary to cloud native, open-source conversion
- Model documentation and validation
Integrations
Integration Modernization
Enable rapid development and migration of application integration platforms to power business and technology modernization:
- Support for modern, event driven architectures
- Conversion from legacy integrations to modern, cloud native microservices
Low-Code, No Code
Low-Code, No Code Modernization
Accelerate your transition to modern low-code platforms with Blaze's intelligent conversion capabilities:
- Automated workflow extraction and business process mapping
- Requirements generation including user stories and acceptance criteria
- Business rules simulation and validation
- Platform migration with reduced manual effort
- Process standardization across diverse legacy systems
- Direct export to JIRA for streamlined project management
Mainframe
Mainframe Modernization
Our approach to mainframe transformation leverages Blaze's powerful capabilities to modernize complex mainframe systems with:
- Accelerated migration up to 10x faster than traditional approaches
- Automated requirements extraction from legacy COBOL, PL/SQL, and other mainframe languages
- Testing framework with agent-based execution and remediation
- Transformation from legacy to cloud-native architectures
- Auto-generated functional descriptions in plain English for improved understanding
Our approach
Our field-tested platform brings together advanced AI technology with modernization expertise to help execute your transformation strategy quickly and reliably.
Transform your development lifecycle with our holistic approach:
Horizontal SDLC & Modernization Capabilities
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Intelligent Discovery & Analysis
Automated application assessment powered by Blaze's knowledge graph technology, provides understanding of legacy system interactions and dependencies through interactive visualizations. It includes knowledge extraction that ingests and analyzes legacy code (e.g., COBOL, PL/SQL) and builds a searchable knowledge base.
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Security & Compliance Framework
Built-in security assessment tools help ensure modernized applications meet industry regulations while maintaining the integrity of transformed systems. It features embedded risk controls and adjustable governance settings for safe innovation.
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AI-Powered Code Analysis & Generation
Blaze's core engine delivers targeted code conversion with technology-specific optimizations, achieving higher efficiency than manual conversions or pair programming tools. Uses agentic AI to generate, test, and refine code in structured sprints with production-grade output.
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Automated Testing & Quality Assurance
Agent-based testing that dynamically adapts to code changes, provides continuous validation and automated remediation throughout the modernization lifecycle. AI agents perform inline testing and defect fixing during code generation, helping to lower defect rates and speed deployment readiness.
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Data Migration Excellence
Comprehensive data migration accelerators enable quality and consistency, including validation frameworks, reconciliation tools, and automated lineage documentation. This is critical for governance, compliance, and traceability with field and element-level precision.
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Cloud-Native Acceleration
Rapid development of cloud-native applications with reusable architectures, automated CI/CD templates, and deployment pipeline generation can be completed in weeks instead of months. Blaze offers continuous feedback and refinement loops based on client performance and model tuning.
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Knowledge Management Platform
Interactive knowledge base creation from legacy code and documentation provides centralized visibility across the entire modernization journey from planning to deployment. Features auto-generated user stories and functional requirements aligned with target state—saving weeks of manual business analysis.
KPMG ranks as a top firm for IT strategy and operating model transformation services
KPMG was named one of Forbes' Best Management Consulting Firms of 2025 in the category of IT Strategy & Implementation; #1 for quality AI advice and implementation in the U.S. by Source; a leader in the IDC Marketscape: Worldwide Operations Improvement Consulting Services 2023-2024 Vendor Assessment; and #1 in quality for data and analytics in 2025 by Source.
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