IT directors and chief information officers must use fear of the
imminent recession to convince senior management to allow them to
dump costly legacy IT.
The economic slowdown will be a key theme during next week's
Gartner Symposium in Cannes. Jeff Mann, chairman for the conference
and a Gartner research vice-president, said, "Politically, now is
the best time to tell management it is no longer viable to run
legacy IT."
He said many CIOs have modernised systems, but prior to the
economic slowdown, senior managers have refused to stop using the
old system, which has meant businesses have incurred high IT
support and maintenance costs keeping the legacy systems
running.
He said, "Use the recession as a crow-bar to get rid of legacy
IT. Look for applicatons to kill off."
There is now a shift in attitude towards risk according to Mann,
which means businesses are more open to switching off old systems
if it will save them money.
On Tuesday 4 November at 4PM GMT Computer Weekly will be
blogging live from the Gartner Symposium in Cannes.
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