Information Systems Modernization

Put yourself in the place of a corporate Chief Information Officer or government agency Information Resource manager... The new budget managers are looking for a quick kill. Your large information systems budget coupled with an unresponsive organization in the midst of radical technological change is an obvious target. You're under pressure to reduce the budget; internal customers are yearning for new technology; entrenched archaic systems are slowing you down; no one around you knows how the old systems work; there are little investment dollars available to modernize; and it seems that the competition continues to make progress. What do you do? Migrate from the mainframes to open client/server systems? Modernize your network? Install local area networks, wide area networks? Reengineer the old systems? Reverse engineer the old systems? Rebuild the systems from scratch? Outsource or insource application development? Outsource the whole thing? You know you have to do something to s...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1994
• Where: CAISE
• Authors: Anthony I. Wasserman
• Keywords: CAISE 1994, Client/server Technology, Information Management, Information Systems Budget, Old Systems