This process will lead to decisions on what legacy applications should be kept, changed or retired.
The reality is many companies still need physical dedicated hosting for legacy applications that cannot run in a virtualized environment.
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While legacy applications are a core part of any data center, they can be inflexible, costly and impede company growth.
Existing legacy applications are being adapted to operate on mobile devices and new applications are being designed for mobile use.
These so-called legacy applications constitute a seamless supply chain, a sophisticated customer experience, order management systems, accounts receivable systems, and so on.
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In their understanding the fact that these so-called legacy applications support the operations of billions of dollars of profitable business is completely missed.
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He said one current drawback of the technology is that legacy applications and documents can look different on-screen, and Microsoft is currently working to make this less noticeable.
According to the Vanson Bourne report, one in 20 called their application portfolios a confusing mess and nearly a fifth said they had legacy applications that no one knew how to update.
The report, released by MeriTalk, a social network for federal agency managers, estimates that half of all federal IT spending is on core applications, and 80% goes to maintaining on-premises legacy applications.
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Thanks to huge improvements in web services and application interface design, the user experience of legacy enterprise applications can readily be reengineered for touch.
In most cases the core business value chain will need to be opened up by mobile-enabling legacy enterprise applications, transactions, and databases to make core functions available on which to build a set of new mobile-friendly business functions.
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The Latitude 10 does not require new mobile device management or software licensing, supports new and legacy Windows applications, is compatible with Adobe Flash and connects with existing peripherals to allow end-users to work and play the way they always have.
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And, in an effort to become more service-oriented, government organizations are having to overcome challenges such as legacy systems and disconnected applications that lack the power or flexibility to deliver a truly consumer-friendly experience.
It is certainly true that the resolution and screen size they picked for this device is largely being driven by constraints based on their legacy of current products and applications.
With applications freed from legacy server environments, cloud-based collaboration platforms can more easily roll out mobile app versions of enterprise apps, while also adding in hooks for various types of social networking.
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Enterprise clients also report that SaaS-based CRM systems are delivering net-new applications that deliver complementary functionality not possible with legacy and previous-generation CRM platforms.
These legacy competencies are simply not relevant in a world of virtualized business applications, ubiquitous personal devices and infrastructure-as-a-service.
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Arya says he now sees server chip sales growing 8% a year through 2014, up from his previous forecast of 5% growth, driven by demands created by consumer cloud applications, new opportunities in adjacent storage and networking and gains gains over legacy RISC vendors.
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