Best Practice Report

Breathe New Life Into Legacy Operational Systems With Integration Best Practices

November 16th, 2023
David Mooter, Principal Analyst
David Mooter Principal Analyst
With contributors:
Linda Ivy-Rosser , George Lawrie , Liz Herbert , Chuck Gahun , Caroline Bonde , Kara Hartig

Summary

Legacy operational systems struggle to keep up with modern business needs, but rip-and-replace is often too costly. A proper integration architecture centered on business interfaces provides a way forward. Middleware such as APIs, event brokers, and integration platform as a service (iPaaS) are key tools in building an architecture that creates efficient ways to modernize legacy systems. This report gives tech leaders best practices and a variety of concrete integration patterns to breathe new life into legacy operational systems.

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