About this episode

Vic Pepe and Deepak Sharma discuss the challenges of legacy modernization and the impact of AI technologies on enterprises.

In this insightful podcast discussion, we dive deep into artificial intelligence technologies, exploring how ai works and its significant impact. Vic and Depak offer a comprehensive AI explanation for beginners, highlighting the future of AI. This episode provides valuable perspectives on the evolving landscape of technology. What happens when enterprises try to modernize decades of legacy code — and fail? In Part 1 of this conversation, Vic Pepe sits down with Deepak Sharma, a veteran transformation advisor who has guided some of the world's largest financial institutions and insurance organizations through their most complex technology challenges. Together they explore why legacy modernization almost always goes over budget, over schedule, and under-delivers — and how a new AI-powered tool called Sage Tech (sage-tech.ai) is changing the equation entirely. Deepak walks through how Sage ingests entire code bases in hours (not years), builds a living data model of how systems actually work, and gives business leaders, engineers, and compliance teams a visual map of technical debt, security risks, and organizational dependencies — across every application in the enterprise. Whether…

People in this episode

Host: Vic Pepe

Guest: Deepak Sharma

Topics covered

• artificial intelligence
• legacy modernization
• technology challenges
• financial institutions
• insurance organizations
• AI tools
• transformation

Keywords

• artificial intelligence
• legacy code
• Sage Tech
• technology transformation
• financial institutions
• AI-powered tools

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Organizations: Sage Tech, sage-tech.ai

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