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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Allegis had been using a legacy on-premises ERP system called Eclipse for about 15 years, which Shannon says met the business needs well but had limitations. Allegis had been using Eclipse for 10 years, when the system was acquired by Epicor, and Allegis began exploring migrating to a cloud-based ERP system.

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MARCH 26, 2025

IT leaders often worry that if they touch legacy systems, they could break them in ways that lead to catastrophic problems just as touching the high-voltage third rail on a subway line could kill you. Thats why, like it or not, legacy system modernization is a challenge the typical organization must face sooner or later.

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MARCH 26, 2025

They arent sure where it is among hundreds of different systems in some cases. Its nearly impossible to clean up data across a sprawling estate of disconnected systems and make it useful for AI, says Helmer. And when they find it, they often dont know if its in a state that can be used by AI.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Standard maintenance for ECC is due to end on December 31, 2027, while the extended maintenance for on-premises SAP ERP systems is set to expire at the end of 2030. Systems that are relevant for the SAP ERP, private edition, transition option, need to be moved to SAP ERP, private edition prior to the end of 2030.

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APRIL 16, 2025

enterprise architects ensure systems are performing at their best, with mechanisms (e.g. They ensure that all systems and components, wherever they are and who owns them, work together harmoniously. Resilience and availability: Designing systems that are fault-tolerant and available in line with requirements and SLAs.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Agentic AI is the next leap forward beyond traditional AI to systems that are capable of handling complex, multi-step activities utilizing components called agents. He believes these agentic systems will make that possible, and he thinks 2025 will be the year that agentic systems finally hit the mainstream. They have no goal.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

CEOs and CIOs appear to have conflicting views of the readiness of their organizations’ IT systems, with a large majority of chief executives worried about them being outdated, according to a report from IT services provider Kyndryl. In tech, every tool, software, or system eventually becomes outdated,” he adds.

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JANUARY 6, 2025

But as with any transformative technology, AI comes with risks chief among them, the perpetuation of biases and systemic inequities. To ensure AI evolves into a force for good, rather than a perpetuator of harm, we must address the societal and systemic factors that shape it. This analogy might seem odd, but its instructive.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

And we gave each silo its own system of record to optimize how each group works, but also complicates any future for connecting the enterprise. Lets revisit our current reality of powering each silo with its own system of record. These systems inherently reinforce business, operational, and data silos. Not necessarily.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Legacy systems and technical debt Barrier: Legacy systems, often deeply embedded in an organization’s operations, pose a significant challenge to IT modernization. These outdated systems are not only costly to maintain but also hinder the integration of new technologies, agility, and business value delivery.

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JANUARY 9, 2025

What began with chatbots and simple automation tools is developing into something far more powerful AI systems that are deeply integrated into software architectures and influence everything from backend processes to user interfaces. Customer service systems: Users can describe their issues in detail. An overview.

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DECEMBER 30, 2024

Smaller models, on the other hand, are more tailored, allowing businesses to create AI systems that are precise, efficient, robust, and built around their unique needs, he adds. Reasoning also helps us use AI as more of a decision support system, he adds. Multi-agent systems Sure, AI agents are interesting.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

One is to eliminate harm, so to ensure that the AI systems that we’re building and that we’re integrating are not going to inadvertently exasperate existing challenges that people might have or create new harms. The last piece is that we’re building symbiotic AI systems with humans. Can you define ‘ethical AI’?

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JANUARY 13, 2025

Theyre actively investing in innovation while proactively leveraging the cloud to manage technical debt by providing the tools, platforms, and strategies to modernize outdated systems and streamline operations. Drafting and implementing a clear threat assessment and disaster recovery plan will be critical.

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DECEMBER 12, 2024

Confidence from business leaders is often focused on the AI models or algorithms, Erolin adds, not the messy groundwork like data quality, integration, or even legacy systems. For example, one of BairesDevs clients was surprised when it spent 30% of an AI project timeline integrating legacy systems, Erolin says.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Leveraging machine learning and AI, the system can accurately predict, in many cases, customer issues and effectively routes cases to the right support agent, eliminating costly, time-consuming manual routing and reducing resolution time to one day, on average. AI is not merely a system of code; it’s not a case of ‘set it and forget it.’

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

The path to achieving AI at scale is paved with myriad challenges: data quality and availability, deployment, and integration with existing systems among them. This requires greater flexibility in systems to better manage data storage and ensure quality is maintained as data is fed into new AI models.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

At a time when technology innovation cycles are getting shorter, we will struggle to keep pace if we have to navigate around legacy systems that act as barriers to speed and agility. Over time the speed and agility barriers associated with the ERP spread to other systems as they, in turn, formed an expanding wave of technical debt.

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APRIL 1, 2025

For German multinational manufacturer of materials handling equipment KION, Accenture and Siemens are standardizing and optimizing central engineering processes with Siemens Teamcenter as a unified system for product lifecycle management. These services include AccenturesManaged Extended Detection and Response (MxDR) platform.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

“Code completion systems have been around for many years, and the biggest challenge in development is not typing the code itself but maintaining the systemic integrity of thousands of lines of code,” he says. In addition, AI agents won’t have a human-level understanding of the intricate needs of each organization, he says.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

There is no formal follow-up to gauge whether employees are using new systems and data correctly. They say that its ITs job to put together data and systems. And if you were a customer in any of these transactions, you very likely heard the words, Id like help you, but Im having trouble with the system.

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MARCH 17, 2025

At issue is how third-party software is allowed access to data within SAP systems. Celonis accuses SAP of abusing its control over its own ERP system to exclude process mining competitors and other third-party providers from the SAP ecosystem. But SAP and its customers benefited. SAP sometimes charged high fees for this indirect use.

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APRIL 23, 2025

Many still rely on legacy platforms , such as on-premises warehouses or siloed data systems. These environments often consist of multiple disconnected systems, each managing distinct functions policy administration, claims processing, billing and customer relationship management all generating exponentially growing data as businesses scale.

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

Rather than discuss “legacy systems,” talk about “revenue bottlenecks,” and replace “technical debt” with “innovation capacity.” For example: Direct costs (principal): “We’re spending 30% more on maintaining outdated systems than our competitors.” So this is the conversation starter that will get the boardroom’s attention.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2024

These uses do not come without risk, though: a false alert of an earthquake can create panic, and a vulnerability introduced by a new technology may risk exposing critical systems to nefarious actors.”

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

OSI’s Open-Source AI Definition requires that systems “must be made available under terms and in a way that grants the freedoms to use the system for any purpose and without having to ask for permission,” and to “share the system for others to use with or without modifications, for any purpose.”

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

“By running two hypervisors, companies can build a hybrid infrastructure that maintains legacy systems and learn what’s the best way to handle new demands,” Carter said. It’s the ongoing challenge of integrating legacy systems and applications with next-gen technologies and solutions. However, this setup can offer a head start.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

As organizations look to modernize IT systems, including the mainframe, there’s a critical need to do so without sacrificing security or falling out of compliance. And those incidents can have far-reaching consequences that go beyond the immediate damage to IT systems, data, or operations. Configuration-based vulnerabilities.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Capital One built Cloud Custodian initially to address the issue of dev/test systems left running with little utilization. Architects must combine functional requirements with multiple other long-term requirements to build sustainable systems. The rapid adoption of AI is making the challenge an order of magnitude worse.

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DECEMBER 20, 2024

Data architecture goals The goal of data architecture is to translate business needs into data and system requirements, and to manage data and its flow through the enterprise. AI and ML are used to automate systems for tasks such as data collection and labeling. An organizations data architecture is the purview of data architects.

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