Scaling

Cloud Computing / Migrations / Modernizations / Strategy

What workloads you must move to the Cloud – Part 1 (for application scalability)

Many organizations, including a lot of those in Fortune 500, are running all or most of their business applications on-premise. These organizations have not considered moving their applications to the public cloud yet as a result of which they are unable to take advantage of the strategic advantages that public cloud offers in terms of performance & application scalability, reliability, cost-benefit, innovations, and operational excellence. What that leads to is that these organizations still grapple with issues that concern with application scalability, availability, high infrastructure costs, and limitations in business capabilities. Thus, if you are in charge of managing and...

Integrations / Migrations / Modernizations

Six things insurers must get right for platform modernization strategy

If you are responsible for platform modernization strategy for an organization that has been grappling with age-old legacy platforms, then this article is for you. Why platform modernization strategy is important? Platform modernization strategy for legacy applications is among the top priorities for insurance carriers. Insurance IT applications are traditionally run on old legacy platforms which is operationally painful in several ways in the context of a modern competitive market. Legacy platforms lead to low flexibility and poor agility that impact customer experience. The rigidity in these platforms results in high IT change management that substantially increases the operational latency...

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Legacy / Migrations / Modernizations

How lack of pre-analysis doubles or triples the costs for business rule extraction from legacy systems

Legacy platform modernization is one of the top IT priorities for most business organizations. It is a key strategy for organizations to stay relevant in the modern market. However, legacy modernization is typically a large and complex initiative. One of the reasons why legacy modernization is complex is because it typically involves business rule extraction from legacy systems. Business rule extraction from legacy mainframe systems has always been a complex task, involves a lot of unknowns, and the degree of accuracy is traditionally low. This makes it difficult to estimate what it takes to perform business rule extraction with reasonable...

Strategy

Six pitfalls why strategic enterprise programs fail

Why would enterprise-wide strategic IT projects fail! These projects are your life blood in sustaining today’s competitive environment. They are your best-planned initiatives. You have the best solution thought out. You have the best and brightest of developers and technology pundits in your teams. Yet best initiatives fail.