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AI is rarely the most expensive line in an AI project. 📈 Legacy integration is. 53% of executives say legacy integration derailed their AI…
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AI is rarely the most expensive line in an AI project. 📈
Legacy integration is.
53% of executives say legacy integration derailed their AI outcomes
(IBM Institute for Business Value, 2025).
The data exists.
But it sits across systems that were never built to talk to each other.
So the first months are spent connecting them, before any model produces anything useful.
💸 That debt has a price:
→ Up to 40% of the technology estate for CIOs surveyed by McKinsey
→ Around 20% extra on every project, just to work around it
When AI and modernization are funded separately, they compete for the same budget.
💡 Put them on the same budget line, and you only modernize what each workflow actually needs.
The three numbers are in the carousel 👉
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