Incremental Modernization of Legacy IT Systems: Strategies, Risks, and Outcomes
Keywords:
Legacy Systems; IT Modernization; Digital Transformation; Microservices Architecture; Technical Debt; Cloud MigrationAbstract
Legacy IT systems impose escalating technical debt, security vulnerabilities, and governance failures that obstructenterprise digital transformation. This article synthesises 18 peer-reviewed studies to identify which modernization strategies yield the highest operational continuity and lowest transformation risk
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2026-05-19
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Anandan Sonaimuthu. (2026). Incremental Modernization of Legacy IT Systems: Strategies, Risks, and Outcomes . Journal of Computational Analysis and Applications (JoCAAA), 35(5), 183–195. Retrieved from https://www.eudoxuspress.com/index.php/pub/article/view/5474
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