How to prevent technical debt from leading to technological bankruptcy

Many organizations still heavily rely on mainframe technologies for their core processing. These systems were often built over half a century ago, at a time when there was no low-code, SaaS, COTS, Cloud. Nothing existed – you had to build it all.

If you incrementally built systems over half a century, you’ve adopted every idea that was in vogue at the time: mainframe centric, client server, service-oriented architecture, web services, cloud centric, micro services. Over decades, things have become entangled, data not properly normalized (often not even relational), technologies out of support, code missing, documentation nonexistent, and code either missing or unused.

Increasingly, companies find themselves trying to avoid a state of technological bankruptcy. This has been aggravated by two trends:

Around 10 years ago, 99.9% of the world’s IT related R&D budgets transitioned from mainframe to x86, creating immense technical debt in the process
The people maintaining these systems are retiring in volumes, and when they retire, so retires what you know about your systems. In this webcast, brought to you by CIO and Avanade, we will explore workable solutions to remediate technical debt efficiently and chart a course toward aligning IT with business demands, leading to continuous modernization.

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