By Darko Jovišić, CEO at Robotiq & RPA by Workato
If you look inside almost any large enterprise today, you’ll find the same paradox. On the surface, everything looks modern. New dashboards. New cloud tools. AI copilots. “Digital transformation” initiatives with impressive names.
But underneath? The core of the business still runs on legacy systems - ERP platforms, desktop applications, internal tools, and custom software that have been around for decades. This isn’t a failure of ambition, it’s a failure of approach. Over the last 20 years, enterprises have spent billions trying to replace legacy systems. And most of those attempts have failed, stalled, or quietly scaled back.
Let’s talk about why.
