What is the average age of your IT systems?

Security & GRC

1-3 years old15%

4-6 years old67%

7-10 years old14%

11-20 years old3%

20+ years old

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Director in Manufacturing4 years ago

It’s a bit hard to answer. If we have 120k people on teams is that one App that is Zero years old since it’s in the cloud and in theory perpetually upgraded ?

Is a 20 year would of date ERP on an AS/400 with 2,000 users 2,000 twenty year old apps?

I can tell you our oldest app is over 35, and our newest app is probably days old

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no title4 years ago

Indeed! Is Salesforce 22 years old, or the time from the last 3x/year update (or depending on which architecture)?<br><br>There’s also the discussion of what makes up a “system” - and the impacts are has to do with it.

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