All organisations want to realise the highest business value possible from their existing IT investments. However, maintaining the application and infrastructure software in a legacy environment consumes a disproportionate percentage of the IT budget and human resources. The average company spends between 60% and 85% of its IT budget maintaining legacy applications that fail to meet the competitive needs of the business.
As a result, IT organisations are under increasing pressure to reduce costs and react more quickly to ongoing business demands.
The solution ... IT modernisation.
IT modernisation allows organisations to maximise their existing application assets as they move toward a more open, complete and integrated application and infrastructure platform.
IT organisation is the continuous evolution of an organisation’s existing application and infrastructure software carried out with the goal of aligning IT with the ever-changing business strategies.
Organisations that do not begin the move toward IT modernisation will find that their business lags behind competitors.
Why modernise?
Legacy applications have become a significant business problem. They carry a high cost of ownership, are difficult to modify to meet ongoing business demands, they require a legacy skill set that fewer and fewer people possess and do not adequately meet today’s compliance demands.
To obtain the maximum strategic business benefit Optimyth Software recommends its IT Modernisation solutions. This solution is based on the technology of the checKing suite and provides the following benefits:
- Optimisation of business processes that will save labour costs.
- Reduction of the need to extend or modify applications.

