Legacy tech can kill the CIO

Technical obstacles that interfere with the ability of IT to offer modern services to end-users. For example, allowing users to access all corporate services from mobile devices or providing them with sophisticated analytics tools can be difficult when the legacy infrastructure requires bolt-on products, patches, and workarounds. The CEO of Pegasystems, Alan Trefler, calls this the Frankenstack; similarly, the CEO of Workday, Aneel Bhusri, refers to it as Frankensoft, based on observations from ZDNet’s Brian Sommer.