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The Dangers Lurking in Your Legacy Mobility Management System

There is a cliché in IT: if something is not broken, do not fix it.

Or, more accurately perhaps, do not replace it. What that means in reality for large organizations with big legacy systems is that imperfect and ageing technology that just about does the job is left to tick over. And it is understandable. Sticking with what is known can seem a safer option than ripping out a tried-and-tested system of record and replacing it with something new. There is a fear of the unknown.

However, as the world of global mobility management (GMM) evolves, this approach of keeping old legacy applications on life support, with sticky tape fixes, is not sustainable. At some point the wheels will come off. And not only does staying put on legacy create all sorts of hidden costs and risks to the business, but it also prevents organizations taking advantage of the many cost, flexibility and efficiency benefits of modern cloud-based software.

Hidden Costs Of A Legacy GMM System

Typically, when it comes to existing GMM systems, many large organisations will have their own home-grown bolt-on to the HR system. And while they can get information from the HR system, it is not connected to other internal systems or their vendors for services such as immigration or relocation. When it comes to pulling together the full assignment cost estimate, the legacy system might cover demographic data and compensation, but not the costs and associated tax of relocation or immigration, as an example.

Filling those gaps means using inaccurate spreadsheets or paying external providers to make calculations. Take relocation service vendors, for example. They provide multiple services, but the mobility team does not have the visibility to pre-empt costly issues such as delays because all the information sits in the vendor’s system, which is not connected to the internal legacy system.

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