What are the ‘Risk-free Decommissioning Criteria’ that Release the Innovation Chokehold?

Legacy systems pile up in the back office, choking budgets, limiting innovation and decelerating economic recovery.

Why does this continue year after year?

Systems that retain data can be immobilized by risk of change. What if data is lost, damaged, or compromised? What if the project hits a wall? What if costs escalate? But as risk restrains progress, obsolescence adds more risk, that the aging systems will fail. This is a paradox of inertia.

Businesses need a risk-free, viable alternative to easily decommission old, inactive application databases and move the data to a digital platform without any disruption, degradation, or breaking the bank.

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

1. Reliability and Usability

• It has been implemented repeatedly with the same excellent results
• It is stable for every iteration
• 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 is secure and can be layered into the existing security framework
• It combines a common currency for data history with an intuitive nuance for each application

2. Agility and Compatibility

• 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 additonal software for deployment
• The data is intact and accessible as in the original application
• There are no dependencies remaining with the legacy system to prevent decommissioning
• Data sovereignty remains with the client
• It has flexible data governance rules to meet changing compliance standards
• It can run on-prem or in the cloud
• It can be deployed locally or globally

3. Affordability

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

The list is long, but the solution is sweet and simple.

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