The discussion is hotting up around the topic of legacy system modernization a.k.a. application modernization a.k.a. many other things. For a brief discussion on the options available for application modernization please check out our recent post on 15 tips for the ISV needing to modernize. For a more in-depth analysis, check out our white paper on breaking the shackles of … Read More
15 Tips For The ISV Needing To Modernize
You’re an ISV. As sure as day follows night, someone is coming to eat your lunch, or at least try to. It could be one of your competitors who is maybe more agile because they haven’t had such an aggressive M&A strategy and, as a consequence, haven’t had to subsume so many different products and technology stacks; or maybe a … Read More
Meet Us At HPE Discover 2016
We will be exhibiting at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Discover 2016 next month. If you’re attending the show, please stop by our booth (#236) and say hello. We will be demonstrating Kuscos, our new BI for IT tool, and you will be able to discuss how the tool can help you better understand legacy software as well as manage ongoing software … Read More
Announcing Kuscos – BI for IT
The 2015 Chaos Report on the state of the global software development industry by The Standish Group showed that only 29% of 50,000 projects studied could be considered successful (defined as meeting time, budget and functionality goals). The study covered totally new projects as well as re-writes and application extensions/enhancements. The cost of canceled projects exceeds a staggering $55Bn and … Read More
Miami-Dade County Case Study (IT Modernization Saves Time and Money While Increasing Functionality and Security)
There’s nothing better than having clients say great things about you… Here’s the background to what is an ongoing engagement with Miami-Dade County. Ten projects completed, nine in process and, hopefully, still more to follow. Some delivered by Morphis, some by Miami-Dade County, some by a combined team, ALL using the Morphis platform for application modernization. Challenge The Miami-Dade County … Read More
Bringing BI to Software Development (Creating Order from Chaos)
The Standish Group’s Chaos Reports have been published annually since 1994 and provide a snapshot on the state of the software development industry. The 2015 report studied 50,000 projects globally ranging in size from small enhancement projects to massive systems re-engineering implementations. The following table from the report shows only minor change over the past 5 years and that only … Read More
Legacy Systems Stand In The Way Of (Fill In The Blank)
As you might imagine, we have several alerts set up to track news stories and events relating to legacy systems. This week we present two of the most common themes and most interesting recent stories. 1) Legacy Systems Stand In The Way Of… This is an extremely common theme. Most recently Legacy systems stand in the way of customization for … Read More
Millennial Online Banking Survey
Recent studies revealed that 71% of Millennials would rather go to the dentist than listen to their bank. 73% said they would be more excited about new financial service offerings from Google or Apple than from their bank and 1 in 4 said they would rather bank with a tech company than their current bank. Coupled with the many denial … Read More
Out With The Old And…In With Old (The Innovation Challenge)
In the first part of this two-part post, we discussed how Royal Melbourne Hospital’s Pathology department was infected by a new variant of the Qbot malware and responded by upgrading from (out of support) Windows XP to (out of support) Windows 7 (out with the old and…in with the old). I pondered how [intelligent people within] organizations could make such … Read More
