Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 131 | Page 35

FEATURE

BEYOND LIFT AND SHIFT

As AI reshapes enterprise priorities, application modernisation is moving beyond cloud migration and cost efficiency. CIOs are now rethinking legacy systems, technical debt and application architectures to create the agility and data foundations needed for an AI-driven future.
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A technology strategies, application modernisation is moving beyond cloud migration and infrastructure efficiency. CIOs are increasingly confronting ageing systems, technical debt and fragmented data while asking a more fundamental question: are their applications ready to support an AIdriven business?

For many organisations, the pressure begins with legacy systems that remain critical to daily operations but are becoming increasingly difficult to understand and maintain.
Gleb Godonoga, Global SVP Strategy at Endava, says the challenge is being compounded by the loss of specialists who understand these environments.
“ Organisations are losing the specialists who understand their core systems, while support costs keep increasing. In many cases, there is also a fairly basic problem: the organisations
Gleb Godonoga, Global SVP Strategy at Endava www. intelligentcio. com
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