Cut The Cost Of Maintaining Legacy Applications While Ensuring Compliance

In the current economic climate, IT departments are under more pressure than ever to reduce costs. With 70 percent of their IT budgets spent on supporting existing systems, organizations should focus on one area to achieve maximum savings—reducing the support costs for legacy applications. In fact, research firm Gartner estimates that 10 percent of applications could be retired altogether.

But with increasingly severe compliance regulations and business reporting requirements, organizations are finding that they need to retain data for long periods of time. They are discovering that they continue to support those legacy applications simply because they are afraid to lose the data residing within them, even though the application is no longer needed or used by the business in day-to-day operations.

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