How To Crush Your Enterprise's Tech Debt With AI
Jul 17, 2025, 12:21PM EDT
Nigel Vaz, CEO of Publicis Sapient, reveals how AI is revolutionizing enterprise transformation by tackling the monumental challenge of tech debt. Vaz outlines how his company's Slingshot AI platform helped a major healthcare client modernize their legacy mainframe in under three years—a process previously estimated to take a decade.
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