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
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
Hope Is Not A Strategy – Application Modernization Alternatives
Our recent post Modernize Or Die covered the existential threat facing many businesses, a threat arising from an inability to innovate brought on by the spiderweb of technologies and architectures prevalent in legacy software systems. Doing nothing is no longer an acceptable option. So what are the alternatives? In broad terms there are three. 1. Replace the legacy system with … Read More
