Tech Mahindra has launched Agentic Development & Modernization Services, a new portfolio that expands its application development and maintenance offering.
The services are aimed at enterprises looking to modernise legacy applications and manage software systems with greater automation across development, operations and testing. The launch also marks a change in how Tech Mahindra defines ADMS, shifting the acronym from Application Development and Maintenance Services to Agentic Development and Modernization Services.
The portfolio applies agentic AI across the application lifecycle to support software development, modernisation and day-to-day operations using systems that can analyse changing conditions and respond with less manual intervention.
Four pillarsThe offering is organised into four areas: platform modernisation, software engineering, operations and quality assurance.
In platform modernisation, Tech Mahindra will rework enterprise systems into modular, API-first and AI-ready foundations. In software engineering, it plans to introduce AI agents into software engineering and DevSecOps processes.
The operations component focuses on automation, knowledge graphs, reasoning engines and AIOps for monitoring and optimisation. The quality assurance element centres on autonomous testing and reliability management across DevOps pipelines.
Tooling stackThe services are supported by Tech Mahindra's internal engineering and AI tools, including Swifter.io, AppGinieZ, Reforge and LitmusT. The company will also use what it calls a Vector Squad delivery model, which combines staff with AI agents, alongside a productised pricing model based on "Service Tokens".
"Kunal Purohit, President - Next Gen Verticals, Tech Mahindra, positioned the launch within a broader shift in enterprise technology spending.
"As organizations increasingly shift toward AI-native operating models, industry estimates indicate that spending on application implementation and next-generation engineering services is expected to grow significantly over the next several years. This will be driven by the rising demand for intelligent operations, autonomous software engineering, and outcome-driven transformation. With Agentic Development & Modernization Services, Tech Mahindra is helping enterprises accelerate this transition by enabling more adaptive, resilient, and context-aware application ecosystems that define the future of autonomous enterprises," said Purohit, President - Next Gen Verticals, Tech Mahindra.
Market contextThe launch comes as technology suppliers seek to reposition established outsourcing and application maintenance work around generative AI and automation tools. Large enterprises have been reviewing legacy software estates as they try to reduce operating complexity, improve release cycles and adapt older systems to newer cloud and AI environments.
Analysts have also been tracking growing demand for AI tools in software delivery and operations. Vendors increasingly present these tools as a way to reshape application services rather than simply automate isolated tasks.
Alisha Mittal, Vice President, Software Engineering, Everest Group, said, "The application services market is entering a more agentic phase, where enterprises are increasingly looking beyond traditional automation toward AI-enabled delivery models that can support continuous evolution, operational resilience, and greater engineering adaptability. As application environments become more complex and change cycles accelerate, the market is seeing growing interest in more intelligent and software-led approaches to application development, modernization, and operations."
Tech Mahindra employs more than 147,000 people across more than 90 countries and serves more than 1,100 clients. The company is part of the Mahindra Group.