EXL partners with Databricks to launch Gen-AI powered code migration accelerator
- Solution reduces manual code migration effort by up to 80% and accelerates migration timelines by 50%
- Achieved Select partner status with Databricks, enabling development of new AI solutions
- Proven success with a global insurance provider demonstrating faster migration and improved compliance
- Multi-industry applicability across insurance, banking, and healthcare sectors
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Insights
EXL's new GenAI Code Harbor solution significantly reduces SAS migration effort, potentially boosting their enterprise digital transformation services revenue.
EXL's strategic partnership expansion with Databricks represents a significant advancement in enterprise code migration technology. The new Code Harbor™ solution leverages generative AI to automate the labor-intensive process of migrating legacy SAS codebases to Databricks' modern data platform, achieving up to
This solution addresses a critical pain point in the enterprise technology landscape. Legacy SAS systems are deeply entrenched in data-intensive industries like insurance, banking, and healthcare, where companies face significant technical debt. Traditional migration approaches require extensive manual recoding, introducing high costs, extended timelines, and potential quality issues.
The technical architecture employs an autonomous multi-agent framework—essentially a coordinated system of specialized AI components—to handle different aspects of the migration process. This approach enables Code Harbor to not only translate code but maintain compliance through comprehensive metadata documentation and integration with governance frameworks.
Beyond SAS, EXL has positioned the solution to support multiple legacy languages and ETL platforms, including BTEQ, HQL, PL/SQL, SQL Server, R, Informatica, Alteryx, and DataStage. This broader applicability significantly expands the market opportunity.
The achievement of Databricks Select partner status further strengthens EXL's competitive positioning in the AI solutions market. This credential facilitates deeper integration with Databricks' ecosystem and positions EXL to develop additional AI and GenAI solutions on this increasingly popular platform.
A real-world implementation with a global insurance provider demonstrates the solution's effectiveness, validating the claimed benefits of faster migration, minimal manual intervention, improved compliance, and governance integration.
For EXL, this solution aligns perfectly with their strategic focus on data and AI services while potentially accelerating revenue growth in their digital transformation segment. By addressing the significant market need for modernizing legacy systems with reduced risk and effort, EXL is positioning itself at the intersection of two major enterprise trends: cloud migration and AI adoption.
EXL Code Harbor™ solution speeds code migration from SAS to Databricks with up to
NEW YORK, May 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- EXL [NASDAQ: EXLS], a leading data and AI company, expanded its partnership with Databricks, the data and AI company, to deploy a GenAI-enabled SAS to Databricks Data Intelligence Platform migration solution. Leveraging EXL’s Code Harbor™ solution, the solution helps enterprises streamline their transition from SAS to Databricks to support enhanced cloud modernization initiatives. EXL has also achieved Select partner status with Databricks to accelerate the development of new AI and GenAI solutions within the Databricks ecosystem.
EXL’s Code Harbor is a GenAI-enabled solution that facilitates the migration of legacy codebases into the modern open-source languages and cloud environments like Databricks Lakehouse. EXL has refined the solution to automate key aspects of SAS to Databricks migration, significantly reducing manual effort while facilitating high-quality code transformation. EXL Code Harbor is designed for multi-industry usage across insurance, banking and healthcare where SAS has traditionally maintained a strong presence. In addition to SAS, the solution also supports migration and assessment of other languages including BTEQ, HQL, PL/SQL, SQL Server and R, in addition to ETL platforms such as Informatica, Alteryx and DataStage. Clients using EXL Code Harbor benefit from EXL's deep domain expertise and advanced AI capabilities while retaining the flexibility to integrate with on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments.
A leading global insurance provider recently partnered with EXL to migrate its extensive SAS codebase to the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform using Code Harbor. The client achieved
“The biggest challenge enterprises face when migrating from legacy systems is the time, cost and complexity involved in transforming extensive codebases,” said Anand “Andy” Logani, EXL’s chief digital and AI officer. “By providing an intelligent automation solution with embedded AI agents, clients can now accelerate their migration timelines by up to
Unlike traditional migration approaches that rely heavily on manual processes, EXL Code Harbor utilizes an autonomous multi-agent framework to accelerate enterprise-scale code and data transformation. Leveraging Databricks’ Unity Catalog and governance layer, the SAS to Databricks solution accelerator ensures enterprise-grade discoverability, traceability and compliance across every annotation asset. By automating the manual effort involved in assessing, writing and optimizing code, the solution transforms the entire migration process, leading to faster delivery, reduced costs and improved accuracy.
More information about EXL Code Harbor can be found here.
About EXL
EXL (NASDAQ: EXLS) is a global data and AI company that offers services and solutions to reinvent client business models, drive better outcomes and unlock growth with speed. EXL harnesses the power of data, AI, and deep industry knowledge to transform businesses, including the world's leading corporations in industries including insurance, healthcare, banking and capital markets, retail, communications and media, and energy and infrastructure, among others. EXL was founded in 1999 with the core values of innovation, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect. We are headquartered in New York and have approximately 60,000 employees spanning six continents. For more information, visit www.exlservice.com.
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