Is There a Risk-Free Path to Legacy Decommissioning?

Organizations invest in new technologies, but those systems sit on top of a pile of outdated ones, adding cost and complexity instead of minimizing it. IT budgets are overburdened, supporting both new and aging systems.

Why does this continue year after year?

Systems that retain data can be immobilized due to risk of change. A failed modernization could result in data exposure, data loss, or loss of data access. If the legacy still works, keep it there just in case.

But maintaining legacy systems for data access reduces progress. It ties down OpEx to maintenance instead of keeping budgets agile for innovation and recovery; and obsolescence adds more risk that the aging systems will fail.

Businesses need a risk-free, viable alternative to easily decommission old, inactive application databases and move the data to a modern platform without any disruption, degradation, or breaking the bank. By choosing the right solution they will achieve:

• Modernized, integrated access to their data
• A fully supported and compliant data archive
• Reduced technical debt to relieve IT budgets

What are the “risk-free” criteria for such a solution?

It needs to be said, there is no such thing as a risk-free guarantee; but choosing a solution that meets the following will ensure your modernization project is far more risk resistant and resilient:

1. Proven

• It has been implemented repeatedly with the same excellent results
• It is stable for every iteration
• It is secure and can be layered into the existing security framework

2. Easy-to-Use

• It meets satisfaction and buy-in from the business users
• It is built on standards-based architecture
• It requires no coding
• It can be easily customized to changing user needs
• It combines a common currency for data history with an intuitive nuance for each application

3. Multiplatform/Multimodal

• It works for any application
• It works for any client end-point
• It can be implemented on any stack
• It can be implemented quickly
• It requires no additional software for deployment
• It can run on-prem or in the cloud
• It can be deployed locally or globally

4. Autonomous

• The data is intact and accessible as in the original application
• Data access is independent of the legacy system
• Data sovereignty remains with the client
• It has flexible data governance rules to meet changing compliance standards

5. Cost-effective

• It costs a fraction of the legacy stack
• It has low resource consumption
• It recovers its own cost in less than a year
• It eliminates technical debt

Click here to learn more about building your Risk-free Decommissioning Strategy to release OpEx into Innovation and Recovery.