“Replace” is not always the best way forwards. Sometimes, no standard system will deliver the best result, and a complete rebuild faces challenges: by themselves, neither the old nor the new technologies may result in a solution that is cost-effective, complete, or flexible enough to deliver the service you need to achieve your business goals.

Retaining, enhancing and integrating new systems into your existing infrastructure may enable you to:

• connect your business processes and business applications
• decrease IT complexity
• increase quality of service
• reduce recurrent costs
• improve communication in your supply chain between suppliers, staff and customers
• align IT operations with business goals and comply with standards or regulations
• improve the management of information, the ability to obtain information on demand, and the value that you can generate from it achieve greater business flexibility