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Somewhere in your organization, a handful of people understand how your most important systems actually work. As experienced COBOL developers leave the workforce, fewer new developers are entering the field, in part because the language is no longer widely taught in universities. As a result, the institutional knowledge required to maintain these systems is becoming…
You finally made the call. The COBOL mainframe is getting modernized. You have signed a multi-year, eight-figure contract with a capable systems integrator, assembled a steering committee and kicked off with real momentum. Now answer one question honestly. Who in that room works for you, and only you? The systems integrator (SI) is excellent at…
Every year, finance leaders approve an IT budget with a line item nobody enjoys defending: the cost of keeping decades-old core systems running. The plan is not to improve or extend the old systems; it is simply to keep them up and running. The biggest offender in legacy systems used by many of these businesses…
Financial services organizations have always been early adopters of business intelligence (BI). The data volumes are large, the reporting requirements are stringent and the pressure to turn information into decisions quickly is constant. Many firms built out significant Tableau environments in the 2010s and those environments have grown in complexity ever since. Today, many of those same firms…
Healthcare IT teams don’t have the luxury of lengthy, speculative technology projects. When you’re balancing clinical operations, regulatory compliance and a long list of competing priorities, a healthcare business intelligence (BI) migration that drags on for a year simply isn’t realistic, even if the outcome would be worth it. That’s why the conversation about moving from Tableau to Power BI has stalled…
Many organizations running Microsoft 365 have reached the same inflection point: they are paying for Power BI and still running Tableau. Two platforms. Two sets of access controls. Two support workflows. Two vendor relationships. At some point, that math stops making sense. But the reason most organizations stay put is straightforward: migration looks painful. Before…
