What is one of the largest assets holders in the world to do when it is mired in a long, complicated, expensive – and ultimately ineffective modernization project of one of its mission-critical, yet legacy monolithic applications? Processing over $1 billion a day, this application needed to be refactored into microservices in order to meet the internal mandate for cloud readiness. After spending 2 years trying with both internal and external teams, this company was able to deploy automation and AI and achieve its goal in just a few weeks, while saving over 3x the cost of doing it manually.