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Story: CIOs last three years in their posts
CIO's - a light at the end of the tunnel
"80 per cent of budget, to keep legacy systems alive"…Seems like a bit of a waste to me. I understand that these things are cash cows, but all anyone does by updating or re-shaping their legacy system is to simply create another one. Another legacy Elephant that will sit under the table until the next year, when the need for further enterprise agility will once again demand a 'not-so-agile' 6-12 month re-engineering project. Clearly legacy is still a huge problem, regardless of the fact that people don't talk about it as much as they used to…or have learned how to hide it underneath some form of SOA implementation.
It frustrates me that many companies see this problem but refuse to believe there is a feasible solution. I wish the IT industry would stop thinking that legacy migration is costly, time consuming and unreliable. This is not the case anymore. For example, I work for Erudine, a company that uses a Behaviour Engine (not a rules engine mind!) to recreate the behaviour legacy systems in a short time scale and at an affordable rate. We've done it, it works, and it doesn't just create further legacy for another day. If the industry becomes more open minded about solutions to this issue then maybe we could help reduce one of the biggest pain points for CIOs - surely that would encourage them to stick around a bit longer!
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