#legacy systems

#legacy systems

Fragmented and stop-start technology investment has resulted in the police being slow to adopt new technologies - and benefit from the expected productivity improvements - at a national level, according to a report from the National Audit Office (NAO). The UK's independent public spending watchdog said that in the financial year 2024-25, His Majesty's Treasury provided £234 million over four years to help fund investments in police technology, including £55.5 million in that year.

In an era where AI is driving innovation and efficiency, marketing organizations are grappling with a persistent challenge - data silos and disconnected data. These issues hinder the ability of AI to deliver accurate insights and seamless user experiences. Understanding the roots of this data dilemma is crucial, as it not only impacts data quality but also reflects broader organizational dynamics.

According to some estimates, tech debt, or the costs incurred when having to constantly fix aging or clunky software systems, has ballooned to more than $1.52 trillion in the U.S. alone. With technology like agentic AI being heavily embedded on top of companies' aging technology systems and operations, this rising cost of tech debt makes sense. Many organizations are quickly implementing new technologies without addressing underlying systems first.

Warehouse floors once revolved around static, siloed systems that did what they could with what they had. But logistics today is an entirely different game. Fulfilment timelines are tighter, customer expectations are higher, and product complexity is increasing. Against this backdrop, outdated systems become bottlenecks. That's why warehouse management software is undergoing a transformation-from on-premises legacy tools to scalable, cloud-based platforms.

The age of agentic AI - where autonomous systems make decisions and take actions at speed - has dawned in ways government agencies may struggle to grasp. As agencies explore ways to bring agentic AI into public service, resilience can no longer be a component of the strategy; it is the strategy. When integrating AI agents, the federal government must prioritize rapid reversibility and transparent, auditable recovery.

"Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told employees in an email Tuesday that the department is launching a consolidation initiative, dubbed 1DoT, to "streamline our processes, consolidate administrative functions and modernize our infrastructure to better serve the American public."

The challenge was substantial: modernize and streamline agent-related data by migrating from aging legacy systems to more scalable and accessible platforms.

Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 Resolver service became unavailable to the internet starting at 21:52 UTC and ending at 22:54 UTC. The majority of 1.1.1.1 users globally were affected. For many users, not being able to resolve names using the 1.1.1.1 Resolver meant that basically all Internet services were unavailable.

In many insurance transformation initiatives, every team begins by modeling the interface, which involves writing stories for forms, APIs, or dashboards. Legacy systems don't behave on the interface level, though. They act at the process level.

The research findings reveal that while digital transformation is a priority for many UK public sector organizations, they remain at the early stages of this journey.

Platforms are really about business value, and while developer experience is a leading factor in achieving this, it is secondary to it.

ActiveX controls, long a security risk, will now be entirely disabled by default in Microsoft 365, requiring explicit user action to re-enable.