Sapient Slingshot applies AI to augment how enterprises modernize software at scale.
Publicis Sapient, a technology company that provides enterprise AI platforms and services, today announced it has been named a winner in Business Intelligence Group’s 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards for its AI software development platform, Sapient Slingshot, in the Augmented Intelligence category. This award honors organizations, products, teams and individuals that combine human insight with AI capabilities and are applying AI in ways that drive real, measurable impact.
“AI has arrived! 2026 is about execution, accountability, and results,” said Russ Fordyce, Chief Recognition Officer, Business Intelligence Group. “Publicis Sapient stood out because its work in augmented intelligence reflects where the market is headed: practical AI that solves real problems, earns trust, and delivers measurable value. This recognition highlights a team that is not just participating in the AI shift but helping define what meaningful progress looks like.”
“We are honored to be recognized in Business Intelligence Group’s 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards for Sapient Slingshot’s work in Augmented Intelligence,” said Nigel Vaz, CEO of Publicis Sapient. “This recognition reflects the strength of our people and products approach and the trust our clients place in us to solve complex, real-world challenges. With Sapient Slingshot, we are applying AI in a way that augments human expertise, enabling organizations to modernize critical systems faster, with greater confidence and less risk. We believe the true value of AI lies in delivering tangible business outcomes responsibly, and this award underscores our commitment to that vision.”
Designed to modernize and build core enterprise software at scale, Sapient Slingshot addresses one of the most persistent challenges established organizations face: decades of accumulated technical debt embedded into legacy systems. These systems contain critical business logic, but are costly, fragile, and difficult to evolve. Sapient Slingshot enables enterprises to safely unlock and transform these environments without disrupting the services customers and operations depend on every day.
Sapient Slingshot stands out for utilizing AI to read, interpret, and extract business rules from legacy systems, preserving decades of institutional and human knowledge while enabling organizations to modernize with greater speed, confidence, and savings. The platform delivers up to 99% code-to-spec accuracy and accelerates delivery timelines by as much as 3x.
A key differentiator is Sapient Slingshot’s Enterprise Context Graph, a dynamic, living map of an organization’s software estate that connects code, architecture, and data to business rules, tribal knowledge, and operational dependencies. By combining this context with human input, Sapient Slingshot enables more informed decision-making, reduces risk, and ensures continuity and traceability across the entire software development lifecycle.
This recognition is grounded in measurable results delivered across industries. In healthcare, Sapient Slingshot enabled a large healthcare benefits provider to modernize more than 10,000 legacy COBOL screens, achieving 3× faster delivery and a 50% reduction in modernization costs. In energy, it helped a leading European producer rebuild a critical, decades-old application in just 48 hours, accelerating code generation and testing by up to 45% and removing long-term operational risk. In retail, it standardized code generation and included built-in testing for a major Latin American retailer, which improved consistency, reduced rework, and cut development level-of-effort by 20-30% during re-platforming efforts. Together, these outcomes demonstrate why Sapient Slingshot stands out in combining innovation with data and human insight to deliver real-world impact at scale.
Business Intelligence Group’s Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards celebrate the people and organizations leading the next phase of AI adoption, where innovation is judged not just by novelty, but by impact. Winners are selected based on how effectively they are using AI to improve performance, reduce friction, solve meaningful problems, and move their industries forward.
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Publicis Sapient is a technology company that provides enterprise AI platforms and services. With over 30 years of digital business transformation experience, we enable enterprise clients to transform how they operateand serve their customers, unlocking new value and enabling them to thrive in an AI-driven world. Our platforms use AI built off this deep enterprise context to help them modernize, build agentic solutions, and sustain their competitive advantage. The combination of our AI platforms and the expertise of our people enables us to deliver faster and more effective outcomes through solutions that are specific to the unique needs of our clients’ businesses, their industries and their customers. Publicis Sapient is the technology hub of Publicis Groupe, uniting 20,000 people worldwide across 28 countries. For more information, visit publicissapient.com.
Since 2013, the Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards recognize organizations, products, teams, and individuals leveraging AI technology to solve real-world problems. The program evaluates advances across 46 major AI application types and 36 industries, celebrating innovations that improve the human experience and advance society as a whole. Judged by a panel of experienced business executives who provide transparent feedback and detailed scoring, the awards honor those dedicated to using AI as a force for good.
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