Business process change, corporate acquisition, technology refresh, platform innovation, automation and the drive to compete have, over decades, built layers of applications with the corporate IT estate. There is an old Irish joke: when asked for directions, most people will tell you the best way to get to where you Read more…
The Struggle for Balance in Planning for Cloud Migration Cloud services promise platform stability. So why do many migrations fight for balance and lift-off? Balance is affected by 3 conditions: Scope: how many of your IT systems are migration-ready for the target platform? Scale: managing elasticity when provisioning controls are external? Read more…
News release: DataNovata, the automated, multiplatform, application generator for databases is now building schema templates for decommissioning mainstream ERP systems. DataNovation Ltd. has been contracted to deliver to multi-system decommissioning roadmaps for 2 multinational corporations in the Food & Beverage industries. These roadmaps include the following legacy ERP systems: SAP Read more…
Winning in the turns – Gartner’s research becomes reality In August 2019, DataNovation Ltd. sponsored the distribution of a Gartner Research paper: Winning in the Turns, a CIO Action Guide to aid firms that seek to gain sustained advantage over their competitors long after the next recession passes. At that Read more…
Legacy systems pile up in the back office, choking budgets, limiting innovation and decelerating economic recovery. Systems that retain data can be immobilized by risk of change. As risk restrains progress, obsolescence adds more risk, of failure of the aging systems. This is a paradox of inertia. A risk-free viable Read more…
The Paradox of Inertia Legacy systems pile up in the back office, choking budgets, limiting innovation and decelerating economic recovery. What is the root cause of this inertia? Is it complacency, antipathy, ignorance, fear, or lack of a viable alternative? “Lack of a viable alternative “ encompasses all. Lack of Read more…
Coping With Economic Distress When economic upheaval threatens corporate earnings, the typical response actions taken by the Board to stabilize the corporate financial picture can have damaging consequences for long-term recovery: Freeze new hires & overtime Layoff non-critical personnel Reduce working hours Negotiate more favourable supplier terms Cancel discretionary (innovation) Read more…
NSC Group has implemented its Business Continuity Incident protocol which allows all our staff to have the resources needed to work remotely. In respect of both real and potential disruption to commercial business activity caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, please be advised that the NSC Group is continuing to fulfill Read more…
