Leaving Your Legacy Behind
Experience shows that companies with a dependence on rigid core legacy systems comprised of redundant applications and fragmented data stored across disparate organizational silos can be at a significant disadvantage.
To reduce costs and become more agile, you can't look back any more. The complexity, redundancy in processes and systems, and lack of operational efficiency typical of legacy systems drive costs up. Furthermore, legacy systems usually can't be made adaptable enough to sustain your company's competitive advantage. With layers of business logic, old hand-coded elements, and costly proprietary technology — your legacy is too often a tale of unnecessary and unproductive spending and out-of-date technologies that are soaking up resources and stifling efforts to move ahead.
But you can capture the business value still embedded in rigid, older systems and rejuvenate them — in a more flexible and cost-effective form — through IT modernization. The answer is to move to modern, open standards. And EDS, with its partners, can help. For example, simplifying by rehosting or rearchitecting your business to run on Intel-based Fujitsu servers with Oracle software, is easy and affordable and it can also reduce risks.
Furthermore, with more work moving to the edge, there is an increased demand for distributed technologies and intelligent networks to allow clients to keep up with the business demand for 24X7 performance. Virtualization is another way that EDS can help improve asset utilization, increase flexibility and reduce overall operating costs. Through applications rationalization, virtualization and applications modernization, EDS can help you achieve much greater agility from all your enterprise resources.
This goes beyond quick-hit opportunities. It is a strategic approach to the consolidation, re-architecting and rehosting of legacy applications. The resulting environment is not only more cost effective, but also increases the ability to leverage your business logic across all customer contact points and services.
In the past, companies have tried to find ways to quickly cut costs through short-term efficiency gains. Today's forward thinkers are looking for broader, more sustainable operational efficiency as a strategic objective. They realize redundant processes and aging legacy systems are limiting their efficiency. Becoming more agile offers the operational efficiency and the flexibility that's required to support growth, new products or services, expansion, and the ability to adapt quickly.
The reasons for modernizing legacy systems are numerous and interrelated. When you commit to simplification, it means you can take the next steps to accelerate and grow your business
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