Legacy apps hold back enterprises from seeing digital transformation benefits

A new study from cloud services company 2nd Watch finds 80 percent of enterprises continue to run at least one-quarter of their business workloads and applications on-premises. This is holding them back from reaping digital transformation benefits such as lowered cost of ownership, better agility and fewer risks. 33 percent of respondents say their biggest challenge in modernizing legacy applications is a lack of skills or expertise, while 26 percent struggle most with lack of budget and investment, and 25 percent with outdated processes and tools. Although organizations are moving their legacy apps to the cloud, this doesn't provide companies… [Continue Reading]