Challenging the Norm

"Because few people really know how their software works, few people are aware of how seriously lack of flexibility and costly environments can impact their running systems and businesses."

Reacting to dynamic changes in the business world and taking advantage of new opportunities requires agile, flexible IT systems, but this is often difficult where old systems stand in the way of change. Legacy systems:

• Are usually static and inflexible
• Possess very limited capabilities with respect to adaptation and integration
• Offer insufficient realtime-access
• Are often expensive to run and maintain with high license costs
• Increase dependency on specialists

In addition to this, many companies realize that years of continuous development, customization and enhancement efforts have generated a patchwork of systems, languages, applications and platforms. Further development on these systems with old languages makes adapting to the dynamic requirements of integrated business processes cumbersome.

The result: Modernization is essential.