Businesses want modernised legacy apps and data to reap fruits of AI

A study shows that businesses slow down in modernising these tech.

More than eight in 10 businesses said they must upgrade their legacy apps and data first to truly benefit AI, a Rakspace Technology research showed.

The firm also found that businesses identified increased security (55%), improved efficiency (54%), and increased agility/flexibility (50%), followed by cost (47%) as the leading motivators of modernization.

Of the legacy infrastructure that has not yet been modernised, only 22% of workloads are noncritical and 25% are not yet assessed.

Only 30% of local respondents said they deploy cross-functional teams as part of modernisation, whilst just 40% use tech vendors and only 27% deploy external consultants.

Modernisation initiatives are led by IT departments (67%) and executive leadership/C-suite (45%).

Rakspace and AWS commissioned Coleman Parkers Research to poll 1,420 global IT leaders, including 120 in Singapore, from April to May.

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