Business Reporter: Meeting the problem of legacy IT
LONDON, Dec. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- In an article published on
Business Reporter, Dr Nefyn Jones, Director of Central Government, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, describes how legacy IT takes up around half of the UK government's IT spend while at the same time making it hard to address numerous issues including agility and information security.
Legacy IT within government is rooted in a historical focus on technology rather than the end-user, combined with a rapidly changing technology marketplace where previous systems can be rendered obsolete rapidly. The result has been a patchwork of government departments, all operating different and complex IT estates.