This list is self-explanatory, and with a suitable assessment model, you can start to build a destination path for your legacy portfolio. For example, many COBOL-based systems would be considered legacy, but the assessment scoring may tell a different story. Many legacy systems refined over many years are sitting on well-supported hardware and software platforms and fulfilling all of their business requirements. Once you establish a baseline, you can look for a correlation between processing spikes, reported behaviors and system constraints, per the questions above. The framework we have discussed here gives you the tools and processes to create actionable plans for sustaining your legacy systems.

Source: Forbes July 15, 2021 11:26 UTC