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A New Age for Old Systems

The new millennium has brought new tools to the old game of legacy systems management. There also has been an increased emphasis on strategic alignment between business and technology as the metaphori

By Craig Weber | Updated on May 31, 2008

The new millennium has brought new tools to the old game of legacy systems management. There also has been an increased emphasis on strategic alignment between business and technology as the metaphorical wall between users and technology collapsed long ago for the more strategically oriented companies.

More than three-quarters of a decade ago, the beginning of the new millennium–with its associated worldwide fears of Y2K–came and went. The tremendous bubble in systems consulting associated first with replacing and then recognizing the reality of merely patching all those legacy applications has returned to the more mundane, less globally significant concept of enabling competitive advantage. Still, here we sit approaching the year 2010 with much of the industry continuing to process the predominance of in-force policies on systems built nearly 40 years ago.

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