Legacy software systems remain ubiquitous today. Whether aware of them or not, the vast majority of general consumers interacts almost daily with organizations whose IT infrastructure is based on decades-old databases and applications. From a consumer protection and IT security/risk management standpoint, exposure to these often precarious systems poses a threat not just from data breaches, but can also represent … Read More
Hope Is Not A Strategy – Application Modernization Alternatives
Our recent post Modernize Or Die covered the existential threat facing many businesses, a threat arising from an inability to innovate brought on by the spiderweb of technologies and architectures prevalent in legacy software systems. Doing nothing is no longer an acceptable option. So what are the alternatives? In broad terms there are three. 1. Replace the legacy system with … Read More
Modernize Or Die – Millennials Would Rather Go To The Dentist Than Listen To Their Bank
I met with a system integrator partner of Morphis’ a couple of weeks ago and he mentioned that many enterprises fail to deal with legacy systems because the expected tenure of the CEO is too short for that CEO to take on the complexities and risk associated with modernizing critical systems within their business. [Fortune state the median CEO tenure … Read More
Legacy Systems Inhibit Innovation
The 2015 Gartner CIO Agenda Insights survey details the top investment priorities of CIOs worldwide. Interestingly, while legacy modernization only ranks at #11, most issues marked as more important are being inhibited by legacy systems, and can only be solved with modernization of these systems. In a recent Vanson Bourne survey of businesses with more than 1,000 staff members, 90% … Read More
Legacy Systems Threaten Big Businesses — Especially Banks
Most of the world’s largest companies have been around awhile. They are vast enterprises built upon complex IT infrastructure. Most deal with thousands if not millions of customers and transactions every day. The legacy software underneath them is often decades old, and in most cases, a house of cards. Legacy systems are inhibiting innovation and agility across many sectors, and … Read More
Morphis Sets Up Shop In North America
In 1995, a team of graduate students went on a mission to create new performance standards for legacy modernization software. In 2013, our CEO, Luis Andrade, founded a new company based upon this IP heritage, setting Morphis in motion to deliver today’s best-practice legacy-to-cloud solutions for the enterprise. As Head of U.S. operations for this Lisbon, Portugal-based company, I’m very … Read More
