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
Legacy System Modernization, Be Bold for the Long Term, Deliver in the Short Term
Legacy software systems remain ubiquitous today. Whether aware of them or not, the vast majority of general consumers interacts almost daily with organizations whose IT infrastructure is based on decades-old databases and applications. From a consumer protection and IT security/risk management standpoint, exposure to these often precarious systems poses a threat not just from data breaches, but can also represent … Read More
Modernize Or Die – Millennials Would Rather Go To The Dentist Than Listen To Their Bank
I met with a system integrator partner of Morphis’ a couple of weeks ago and he mentioned that many enterprises fail to deal with legacy systems because the expected tenure of the CEO is too short for that CEO to take on the complexities and risk associated with modernizing critical systems within their business. [Fortune state the median CEO tenure … Read More
Legacy Systems Inhibit Innovation
The 2015 Gartner CIO Agenda Insights survey details the top investment priorities of CIOs worldwide. Interestingly, while legacy modernization only ranks at #11, most issues marked as more important are being inhibited by legacy systems, and can only be solved with modernization of these systems. In a recent Vanson Bourne survey of businesses with more than 1,000 staff members, 90% … Read More
