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- Staying on legacy systems ends up costing IT more
- Sorry, but ....This sounds like the car commercials targeting struggling consumbers to "take advantage of great deals" to prop up the sagging sales at the expense of overburdened buyers.Yes, there are cost savings but at a greater price than the actual savings.I may save $100 a month on gas but...
- Tags: Hardware upgrade, information technology, legacy system
- Discussion threads 2009-09-30
- Staying on legacy systems ends up costing IT more
- The cost of legacy systems and the cost of supporting the mainframe hasn’t changed in 12 months. What has changed is the available cash that companies have to spend on IT. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Information Technology, Legacy System, Hardware Upgrade, Hardware, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Eurotransplant Improves Patient Safety and Transparency With Service-Enabled Legacy Systems
- Eurotransplant wanted to ensure rapid donor information capture and improve data accuracy and increase patient safety by providing surgeons with better access to the transplant waiting list and organ availability data. The challenge was to achieve greater transparency of organ allocation rules and enable the organization to evolve from data-driven...
- Tags: Patient, Oracle Corp., Legacy System, Eurotransplant, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Hardware Upgrade, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- Save Money, Improve Security, Meet Security Compliance Requirements and Increase Efficiency by Switching From FTP to SFTP for Legacy Systems File Transfer
- Everyone is looking to cut costs in the recession, but there is one solution which many companies don't realise has the potential to save money for minimal investment and minimal disruption, which also can provide fast ROI. FTP file transfer from legacy systems normally goes on in the background without...
- Tags: Security, Legacy System, FTP, SFTP, Wick Hill, Hardware Upgrade, Hardware
- White papers 2009-04-14
- SAVE MONEY, IMPROVE SECURITY, MEET SECURITY COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS AND INCREASE EFFICIENCY BY SWITCHING FROM FTP TO SFTP FOR LEGACY SYSTEMS FILE TRANSFER
- Ian Kilpatrick, chairman Wick Hill Group, explains how switching from FTP to SFTP for legacy systems file transfer can save money, improve security, help meet compliance security requirements and increase efficiency.
- Tags: Security, Compliance, Legacy System, FTP, SFTP, Hardware Upgrade, Hardware
- White papers 2009-04-01
- Rationalize, Optimize, Modernize - Getting the Most From Your Mainframe Assets
- Legacy systems play a vital role within today's IT organizations. They contain critical business knowledge and domain expertise, which companies cannot afford to lose. The presenters of this webcast will explain how best to leverage and modernize legacy systems, enabling organizations to realize benefits more quickly. The presenter will also...
- Tags: Legacy System, Compuware Corp., Mainframes, Hardware Upgrade, Servers, Hardware
- Webcasts 2009-01-01
- TechNet Webcast: An Agile Approach to Delivering Mailing Efficiency Solutions (Level 100)
- Is there such a thing as effective innovation for legacy systems? Yes. Experts from Microsoft and Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software share insights on the changing landscape for legacy systems based on industry-standard protocols and secure communications techniques. This webcast is intended for customers supporting VSE, and provides insight into...
- Tags: Webcast, Legacy System, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Hardware Upgrade, Roi/Tco, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- Webcasts 2008-12-16
- Google has legacy system issues too
- Google has legacy system issues tooGoogle is Apple's largest corporate customerI just thought I would share that. Maybe they are migrating even more old stuff into new better stuff.Done by September?Are they being melodramatic about the size of the problem? Or is Google really able to consolidate 24 text...
- Tags: Hardware upgrade, Google Inc., Google has legacy system, legacy system
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- Google has legacy system issues too
- Google's growth has led to redundant systems and the need for a "Project Spaghetti" designed to unravel the potential rat's nest. That's one of the big items in a Wall Street Journal story on how Google is struggling to sell ads on YouTube. Most of the world...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Legacy System, YouTube Inc., Armstrong, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Turning the Challenges of a Utility's Legacy System Into Opportunities for Business Improvement
- Miami-Dade WASD understood it had to improve its outdated, expensive and ineffective mainframe Customer Information System CIS that it had implemented in 1982. They wanted to implement a real-time online system with improved functionality around billing cycles and new rate structures. They wanted a system that would be more cost-effective...
- Tags: Legacy System, Systems Integration, BearingPoint Inc., Hardware Upgrade, It Services, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software
- Case studies 2008-07-01
- Unlocking the Mainframe: Modernizing Legacy System to SOA
- Don't let your mainframes slow down or even stall your SOA development. Discover how to eliminate the risks of mainframe dependence by unlocking data and business logic trapped in legacy systems. SOA provides an opportunity for true synthesis between mainframes and next-generation applications. Successful execution of an SOA strategy,...
- Tags: Legacy System, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Mainframes, Hardware Upgrade, Web Services, Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2008-06-01
- Integration and Customization of Oracle ERP With Disparate Legacy Systems to Achieve Process Efficiencies
- MindTree Consulting seamlessly integrated multiple home-grown legacy applications with Oracle ERP and executed several Oracle forms customizations for a global IT services provider. The acquisition of the client's organization by a Fortune 100 company, made it imperative for the client to integrate its systems with the global Oracle ERP. Leveraging...
- Tags: MindTree Consulting, Oracle Corp., Legacy System, ERP, Customization, Integration, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2008-01-24
- Modernize Legacy Systems Using an SOA Approach
- To remain competitive, the organization has to modernize its IT systems. Modernized IT solutions must create new value from existing systems and provide flexibility and easy interoperability among a broad set of technologies - usually a challenge with legacy applications. Service-Oriented Architecture SOA, widely adopted by organizations in recent years,...
- Tags: Information Technology, Legacy System, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Hardware Upgrade, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Hardware, Management
- White papers 2008-01-17
- Beowulf: Prima Official eGuide 1 (Windows)
- Walkthrough: Comprehensive walkthrough of the entire game. Moves: Info on performing advanced combos, parries, and skills, as well as finishing moves. Maps: Detailed layouts of every level and dungeon. Bonus Content: Huge pullout poster of exclusive art, exclusive art section, developer interviews, and more! Legacy System: Learn the Legacy System...
- Tags: Legacy System, Microsoft Windows, Prima Games, Hardware Upgrade, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-11-14
- Goodrich Corporation Replaces Hundreds of Legacy Systems, Integrates ERP/PDM and Leverages Hosting for Collaborative Enterprise-Wide Knowledge Sharing
- Goodrich Corporation wanted 217 legacy systems in place, 40 representing product development data and 4,200 users worldwide unable to collaborate on critical product development issues or utilize intellectual capital. The challenge faced was the burdened IT department which is powerless to anchor dynamics resident in hundreds of applications and competitors...
- Tags: Siemens AG, Legacy System, Product Development, Hardware Upgrade, Product Marketing, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Hardware, Marketing, Management
- Case studies 2007-09-01
- A Collaborative Semantic Web Layer to Enhance Legacy Systems
- This paper introduces a framework to add a semantic web layer to legacy organizational information, and describes its application to the use case provided by the Italian National Research Council CNR intraweb. Building on a traditional web-based view of information from different legacy databases, the paper has performed a semantic...
- Tags: Technique, Knowledge, Legacy System, Knowledge Base, National Research Council, Semantic Web, Productivity, Strategy, Internet, Management
- White papers 2007-08-26
- Closing the Legacy Gap: Protecting Legacy Systems With FDE
- Protecting data is not only financially wise; it is often legally necessary. More companies are now implementing Full Disk Encryption FDE as part of a comprehensive data security program. Up until now, FDE was software-based with all the encryption algorithms processed by the computer's CPU. But with the introduction of...
- Tags: Legacy System, SECUDE, Hardware Upgrade, Productivity, Security, Hardware
- White papers 2007-08-10
- Survey: mainframes now being service-enabled, not replaced
- A new survey confirms what many of us already suspected: that mainframe and other legacy systems are no longer being ripped up and replaced. Instead, the operative term is now "modernization." And SOA has helped fuel this sea change.A new survey finds modernizing is preferable to replacing Big Iron. Times...
- Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, SOA Surveys and Research, General, Business ROI
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- Adapting Legacy Systems for SOA: Finding New Business Value in Older Applications
- Service-Oriented Architecture SOA, along with other service-oriented approaches for developing and managing IT infrastructures, is causing many organizations to reconsider traditional approaches for leveraging legacy IT investments. In this paper, discover the business and IT advantages to using SOA to transform an existing legacy investment, as well as key architectural...
- Tags: Information Technology, Legacy System, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-06-08
- SOA on legacy: lipstick on a pig, or extended value?
- Jeremy Miller, not an avid fan of SOA, says theres a better way to adapt software to evolving business needs than attempting code reuse. And that is to simply write good code in the first place. Its cheaper and less risky to write brand new code than fiddling around with...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Hardware upgrade, SOA, Jeremy Miller, legacy system
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
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