Legacy Revaluation and the Making of LegacyWorks

by André LeClerc and Arun K. Majumdar

Caught in the frenetic rise of the dot-com phenomenon and following hot on the heels of Y2K, IT departments find themselves drowning in a sea of spaghetti logic and a Gordian knot of networked applications and legacy systems. The design of these IT applications has been tactical and not strategic. Few, if any, applications were designed in anticipation of the business processes they serve. Introducing enterprise application integration and middleware is a partial solution to this problem, but it does not solve the problem of extracting content and meaning from existing legacy systems.

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Legacy Revaluation and the Making of LegacyWorks September 2002