We’ve seen a huge shift in mobile commerce over the last year. According to a Time article, “Nearly 70% of Amazon’s customers shopped via mobile devices this holiday season.” The same article referenced Walmart’s announcement in December that stated more than 70% of traffic to its website is coming from mobile, and about half of holiday orders were placed using … Read More
Out With The Old And…In With The Old (that and other dirty little secrets)
Two seemingly unconnected blog posts leapt out at me this week and demanded to be read. They also led me back to the world of Simon Sinek and his study of leadership to seek an explanation for some of the craziness outlined in the posts. The first was Windows 7 is not the answer for Melbourne Health – Out with … Read More
Why Outsourcing Legacy Modernization Projects Will Improve Employee Morale
Outdated legacy systems are crippling many sectors of the economy. Federal systems probably lead the way with 80-90% of government IT spend being on keeping the lights on (keeping outdated legacy systems up and running). Congressional investigators recently stated that the government currently operates nearly two dozen information systems that date back to 1980 or earlier. Fallout and continued challenges … Read More
Legacy Modernization – Step-by-Step, App-by-App
Enterprise-level security updates are vital, and expected. But, they can also be costly, and take hours of staff time to complete. In some cases, lack of vendor support for technology versions within the stack may produce a security hole and provide a driver for application and stack modernization. Security is only one of many drivers for legacy modernization and with … Read More
Have You Sorted Your Future Digital Infrastructure Strategy? Qube Global has!
2016 is the year to ask yourself, “How much longer can we afford to keep our legacy IT systems in place?” It’s time to identify which applications to modernize and the best modernization approach. I’m sure you have many products and services in the pipeline for launch in the new year, but it’s important to note that you need to … Read More
Morphis Modernizes MV Sistemas’ Healthcare ERP System
MV is Brazil’s leading provider of healthcare management systems and the second largest healthcare ERP provider globally. Its flagship healthcare management product, SOUL MV, provides comprehensive clinical and administrative functionality to networked or stand-alone health facilities including state health departments, public and private hospitals, emergency facilities, family care centers, health insurance carriers, and many others. Originally architected as a client-server … Read More
Transform Legacy – Enable Innovation
Nice title from Dale Vecchio, the Gartner analyst covering the application modernization space. Indeed this was the title of Dale’s presentation at Gartner’s Application Architecture, Development and Integration Summit in Las Vegas, Dec 1-3, 2015. The thrust of Dale’s presentation was that IT Modernization is now inevitable and is being driven primarily by demographic change, aided and abetted by technological … Read More
TOTVS COTS Investment Funds Software Modernization
TOTVS is a Brazilian software, service, platform, and consultancy company. They are the market leader in Brazil and Latin America and one of the largest integrated management system (ERP) developers in the world. TOTVS provide solutions to many industry sectors including financial services. Custody and Controllership of Investment Funds (CCIF) is one of many COTS (commercial-off-the-shelf) software products offered to … Read More
How Federal Agencies Can Succeed With Application Modernization
A recent report by MeriTalk “Future Ready Applications” surveyed 150 Federal IT Managers and concluded that 92% believe it urgent for their agency to modernize their legacy applications. The key drivers behind this urgency to modernize are: – Security Issues (42%) – Time Required to Manage/Maintain Systems (36%) – Inflexibility (31%) – Integration Issues (31%) – Hinders innovation (30%) – … Read More
61% Of Financial Services CIOs Say Their Biggest Threat Is From Aliens
We have posted recently about the existential threat that banks face unless they are able to satisfy both the basic needs of their customers (making payments, access to cash etc) together with their user experience and access demands (24 hour, mobile etc). Recent cases where basic needs were not met include Royal Bank of Scotland’s failure to process 600,000 payments … Read More