Rachel Herz

Modernizing IT architectures is no small task, but it’s one nearly every enterprise is now facing in order to build better applications, innovate faster, and stay competitive.&nbsp;

The challenges enterprises are facing around IT architecture modernization are real and various. A survey we recently conducted with Dimensional Research has illuminated specifically what these challenges are and how IT executives are trying to surmount them.&nbsp;

We surveyed more than 300 IT execs who work at companies with at least 5,000 employees—80% were from companies with 10K or more employees and 46% were from companies with 50K or more, and 77% of the respondents were VP and above.&nbsp;

The results showed that organizations are modernizing their architecture for a variety of reasons:

<ul>
	<li>79% hope to reduce costs by using resources more effectively</li>
	<li>68% aim to increase customer satisfaction</li>
	<li>59% want to increase employee efficiency and satisfaction</li>
	<li>55% seek to use data-driven insights to improve customer engagement and increase revenue</li>
	<li>43% plan to use technology to enter new markets</li>
	<li>42% are investing in new architecture to remain competitive</li>
	<li>42% intend to use new technology to grow existing markets and their customers base</li>
</ul>

But shockingly, while 100% of organizations are modernizing their technology architecture, virtually all of them (99%) are struggling with architecture modernization.&nbsp;

They cited several factors behind this struggle:

<ul>
	<li>56% need to manage costs without sacrificing uptime and performance</li>
	<li>46% say cloud options are constantly evolving so they need architectures that are flexible</li>
	<li>45% indicate that time-to-market pressures are increasing</li>
	<li>43% have a hard time finding the skills needed to deliver innovative solutions</li>
	<li>41% agree it’s difficult to scale as environments become more complex</li>
	<li>40% say that business stakeholders have unrealistic expectations</li>
	<li>39% struggle with data silos while having multiple applications that need the same data</li>
	<li>38% lack the experience needed to develop modernization strategies</li>
</ul>

The report dives deeper into a number of additional topics, including:

<ul>
	<li>Why organizations are increasingly embracing flexible architecture modernization in their applications, including hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure, containers,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.datastax.com/resources/whitepapers/four-key-technologies-that-enable-microservices">microservices</a>, container orchestration, and open source solutions</li>
	<li>The role data and databases play in pushing enterprises toward architecture modernization</li>
	<li>Why&nbsp;<a href="https://www.datastax.com/2019/06/why-open-source-is-both-the-past-and-the-future">open source solutions</a>, in particular, are taking on an increasingly prominent role in large organizations</li>
</ul>

<a href="/resources/report/new-research-report-2019-it-architecture-modernization-trends">Download the full report to learn more.</a>

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