{"id":171306,"date":"2026-09-18T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/?p=171306"},"modified":"2026-09-18T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:00:15","slug":"ensono-research-finds-ai-prompts-it-leaders-to-rethink-value-of-legacy-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/2026\/09\/18\/ensono-research-finds-ai-prompts-it-leaders-to-rethink-value-of-legacy-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Ensono research finds AI prompts IT leaders to rethink value of legacy systems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>New Ensono research finds 78% of IT decision-makers believe legacy systems have become more important over the past two years, although skills shortages and rising costs continue to hamper modernisation programmes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than three-quarters of IT decision-makers believe legacy systems are more important to their organisations than two years ago as Artificial Intelligence changes approaches to IT modernisation, according to Ensono research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company&#8217;s second annual <em>State of IT Modernization Report<\/em> surveyed IT leaders in the UK and US, with 78% saying the importance of legacy environments has increased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather than replacing older technology outright, 52% are optimising existing systems and modernising applications in place. The approach is more common among UK organisations, at 57%, compared with 48% in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AI is also accelerating modernisation, according to 54% of respondents, up from 39% in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, cost and skills remain significant obstacles. Some 97% said talent shortages had increased modernisation costs to some degree, while 71% of initiatives had exceeded their planned budgets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The figure was higher in the UK, where 77% of organisations reported exceeding budgets compared with 66% in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, 61% of organisations had paused, delayed, scaled back or abandoned IT modernisation initiatives during the previous 24 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organisations also continue to encounter difficulties generating returns from AI, with workflow integration cited by 33%, infrastructure limitations by 28% and governance concerns by 25%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Ensono research finds 78% of IT decision-makers believe legacy systems have become more important over the past two years, although skills shortages and rising costs continue to hamper modernisation programmes. More than three-quarters of IT decision-makers believe legacy systems are more important to their organisations than two years ago as Artificial Intelligence changes approaches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":171307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21064,18793,93,23],"tags":[577,6284,16093,367,12619,13529,11126,5006],"class_list":["post-171306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-europe","category-top-stories","category-united-kingdom","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-cio","tag-ensono","tag-hybrid-cloud","tag-it-modernisation","tag-legacy-systems","tag-mainframe","tag-uk"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171308,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171306\/revisions\/171308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}