MongoDB Launches AI-Powered Application Modernization Platform to Reduce Technical Debt and Speed Innovation
IntellectAI, Lombard Odier, and Bendigo Bank among global enterprises that have modernized legacy applications with the MongoDB Application Modernization Platform (AMP)
NEW DELHI, INDIA—SEPTEMBER 2025—MongoDB,
Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB) today announced the launch of MongoDB AMP, an AI-powered
Application Modernization Platform that helps enterprises quickly transform
legacy applications into modern, scalable services. MongoDB AMP helps customers
modernize through the fusion of an AI-powered software platform, a proven
delivery framework, and experienced AMP delivery engineers who oversee and
guide the implementation process—a powerful combination of tools, techniques,
and talent. As AMP’s foundation, MongoDB gives customers the flexibility of the
document model and an architecture built for continuous change. By combining
AMP tooling with MongoDB’s proven, repeatable framework, customers have seen
tasks like code transformation sped up by 10x or more—with overall
modernization projects sped up 2–3 times.
Enterprises across industries
are weighed down by legacy applications critical to their operations, but which
are also expensive to maintain and difficult to adapt to modern use cases like
generative AI. Built around rigid data foundations and outdated tech stacks,
these complex legacy applications can hinder innovation while posing security
and compliance risks. According
to the Consortium for Information & Software Quality, the cost of
technical debt in the US—as measured by “poor software quality,” software
failures, lost developer time, and systems maintenance—has been estimated at
almost $4 trillion dollars.
“Enterprises are increasingly
grappling with the burden of complex legacy applications, constrained by rigid
data foundations and outdated architectures that stifle innovation,” said
Rachel Stephens, Research Director at RedMonk. “While traditionally recognized
for its database capabilities, MongoDB’s strategic expansion into an AI-powered
Application Modernization Platform highlights a critical understanding: the
data layer remains an indispensable foundation for truly modern, scalable
services. AMP empowers organizations to go beyond incremental 'lift and shift'
migrations, instead focusing on full-stack transformation from the data up.”
The traditional approach to
application modernization typically involves expensive multi-year consulting
engagements that can be manual and resource-intensive—and which can stall out
before delivering results, impacting time-to-market. What’s more, some modernization
efforts seek to simply move legacy applications from one relational database to
another (a “lift and shift” migration), instead of switching to a flexible,
modern database solution.
“Research shows that too many
organizations spend time and budget on low-value, high-effort work simply to
keep the lights on—which impacts their ability to keep pace with competitors,”
said Vinod Bagal, Senior Vice President, Modernization and Transformation at
MongoDB. “MongoDB AMP offers enterprises a better approach to modernization. It
helps companies move from traditional to transformative with remarkable speed
and quality, opening doors to innovation and cost savings.”
MongoDB AMP is the result of
years of innovation and development
The launch of MongoDB AMP is
the culmination of more than two years of work developing this approach with
some of MongoDB’s most sophisticated customers. Notably, AMP has led to
modernization successes with customers in demanding, highly regulated industries.
For example, Australia’s Bendigo Bank reduced the development
time required to migrate a core banking application from a legacy relational
database to MongoDB Atlas by 90%. And with AI tooling, the bank was able to
reduce the time spent running application test cases from over 80 hours to just
five minutes.
Lombard Odier,
meanwhile, successfully migrated key applications from its SQL database to
MongoDB. This partnership resulted in migrating code up to 60 times faster and
reducing regression testing time from three days to three hours, freeing
developers to focus on innovation.
More recently, MongoDB worked
with IntellectAI, one of the world’s largest enterprise fintech
companies, to modernize critical components of its Wealth Management platform.
Intellect’s project with MongoDB led to improved performance and reduced
development cycle times, and its platform is now better positioned to onboard
clients, provide richer customer insights, and to unlock generative AI use
cases across the firm.
“At IntellectAI, we are
redefining how enterprises unlock value with AI,” said Deepak Dastrala, Chief
Technology Officer at IntellectAI. “Modernizing with MongoDB has transformed
how we deliver value to our customers, freeing us from bottlenecks and accelerating
the realization of our AI vision. One of the world’s largest sovereign wealth
funds, with trillions under management, relies on our flagship enterprise AI
platform, Purple Fabric (powered by MongoDB) to support real-time investment
decisions. Together, IntellectAI and MongoDB are enabling clients to turn AI
vision into measurable business impact.”
MongoDB AMP is now available. For more information, visit the MongoDB website, read our blog post about AMP, or contact your MongoDB account representative.
About MongoDB
Headquartered in New York, MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to
create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified
database platform was built to power the next generation of applications, and
MongoDB is the most widely available, globally distributed database on the
market. With integrated capabilities for operational data, search, real-time
analytics, and AI-powered data retrieval, MongoDB helps organizations
everywhere move faster, innovate more efficiently, and simplify complex
architectures. Millions of developers and more than 50,000 customers across
industries—including over 75% of the Fortune 100—rely on MongoDB for their most
important applications. To learn more, visit mongodb.com.
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