Legacy system evolution - A comparative study of modernisation and replacement initiation factors
Abstract
Decisions regarding information system evolution strategy become topical as the organisation’s information
systems age and start to approach the end of their life cycle. An interview study was conducted in order to
compare factors influencing modernisation and replacement initiation. System age, obsolete technology and
high operation or maintenance costs were identified as triggers for both modernisation and replacement
projects. The results show that the most prevalent individual reason for modernisation initiative is business
development. Common initiation factors for replacement projects were end of vendor support and system’s
inability to respond to organisation’s business needs.
Main Authors
Format
Conferences
Conference paper
Published
2007
Subjects
Publication in research information system
Publisher
INSTICC Press
The permanent address of the publication
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201605262711Käytä tätä linkitykseen.
Parent publication ISBN
978-972-8865-88-7
Review status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5220/0002378102800287
Language
English
Is part of publication
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2007)
Citation
- Kankaanpää, I., Tiihonen, P., Ahonen, J., Koskinen, J., Tilus, T., & Sivula, H. (2007). Legacy system evolution - A comparative study of modernisation and replacement initiation factors. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2007) (pp. 280-287). INSTICC Press. https://doi.org/10.5220/0002378102800287
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