As companies experience growth and expansion, they find it challenging to integrate their legacy systems with new technologies, web and mobile apps, as well as in the cloud. Legacy systems are obsolete, fragile, and inflexible technologies that continue to be used by an organization because they still perform the functions they were initially intended to do. These systems no longer have support and maintenance and they are limited in terms of growth.
So why don’t companies replace legacy systems? That’s because replacing legacy systems is an extensive, expensive, and quite a risky process. It also requires an excessive amount of developer retraining and doesn’t take into consideration the future needs of a business. No matter which way businesses turn, they seem to be stuck, unable to find an ideal solution for their legacy systems.
In this article, we look at how IConduct platform offers a solution to efficiently sync data from your legacy software to modern cloud-based systems so that you can benefit from the latest technologies while unlocking the value of the data stuck in your legacy systems.
The Need for Legacy System Integration
As mentioned above, legacy systems remain in use by businesses because their replacement or redesign is costly, risky, and complex. However, these systems can cause a huge loss in terms of business continuity if the systems fail or get attacked.
Moreover, not many engineers have the experience of working with legacy systems such as mainframe systems. As they have been coded in “old code”, mainframe systems necessitate knowledge of legacy programming languages (for instance, COBOL).
Working with legacy systems alone slows down innovation in companies. It can also increase the time to market (TTM) of new initiatives. Plus, there is a lot of data concealed in legacy systems that, because of the lack of integration, often remains unutilized.
Therefore, companies have to opt for legacy system integration in order to make the most use of their old systems while leveraging new technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, and SaaS platforms.
The Challenge of Integrating Legacy Systems
Companies have been typically using APIs to provide an economical and fast solution for syncing and integrating between systems, including legacy software. However, this option no longer works when a legacy system is custom-built and proprietary in a way that can’t expose APIs. As a result, many organizations are facing the challenge of migrating data from their custom-built and proprietary legacy systems to updated systems.
How IConduct Helps With Legacy System Integration
The IConduct platform gives you options for integrating data from legacy systems, either by using files or connecting to the database and other techniques, to access the data, manipulate it to be compatible and then integrate it to any cloud-based services securely without depending on an API. The platform supports all enterprise, legacy, and cloud-based business applications, and eliminates coding on both the source and target application.
With a secured agent, full in-memory data handling, and active transaction monitoring, IConduct’s integration platform delivers the best performance, ultimate security, and the confidence that all applications are communicating seamlessly and securely. Get in touch to request a free demo.
