adesso study finds 83% of German firms see urgent need to modernize legacy applications

• adesso analysis found 83% of German companies see urgent application modernization needs, despite 86% viewing core systems as fit for five years.
• Legacy systems hurt business performance for four in five firms; more than half reported a noticeable drag on competitiveness.
• Modernization is underway at 73% of companies; 24% plan projects, with cost cited by 53% as the top barrier.
• Resource constraints were flagged by 35%; 31% pointed to business interruption risk as a key deterrent.
• Agentic AI was positioned as a cost lever, with adSCAILE cited as cutting total modernization costs by 30% to 60%.

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