IT department and CIOs are experiencing the difficulties to handle legacy application in different ways as shown below and it impacts overall business.

Legacy Application Impact in Business:

• Difficult to serve Hyper-Connected technology demands on smartphones      to enable access-anywhere-anytime
• Performance issues due to old application architecture and hardware
• Information portability issues with modern tools and applications
• Integration issues with new software application
• Old technology services may be costly than new, because of rarest service      provider found in market and no competitors for them
• Security loopholes and flaws possible in legacy application
• Problem is handling growing needs for products, customers and      information, Scaling issues
• Unstructured information management
• More technologies investment due to above factors
• Comparatively less business productivity and returns