This type of adaptability in architecture has But many enterprises have legacy systems A digital decoupling approach takes stock allowed leaders to realize innovation at scale holding them back from accessing the capabilities of where an organization’s legacy systems are across the enterprise and into new technology that would allow them to reinvent the business. creating bottlenecks or inefficiencies, then areas. Spotify built its adaptable architecture In an Accenture survey, more than 80 percent introduces different technological approaches using these technologies to support more than of respondents indicated they would like to to solve those issues. Businesses can run 200 million monthly active customers and replace all of their core legacy systems, but new technologies in parallel with their legacy 48 51 hundreds of billions of events per day. The remain dependent on them. And 83 percent systems—such as APIs, microservices, event- company has extended these interfaces to of respondents say technical debt—the flaws, driven architectures, DevSecOps, data lakes and support emerging technology channels like XR, complexities and inadequacies that make legacy more using Agile and domain-driven methodology creating a new way to interface with Spotify’s systems unfit for today’s business environment— approaches to manage the changes. With these music service in Magic Leap headsets.49 severely limits their organizations’ ability to be in place, companies can gradually migrate data innovative. Struggling to manage this debt takes and critical functionality, maximizing value. Other companies are radically reimagining how up time and investment that is needed to innovate, data is stored. A Microsoft Research project called limiting the opportunity to be a leader in these Goldman Sachs, for instance, built a platform “Project Silica” used recent ultra-fast laser optics future systems. called Marquee, which the company used to discoveries and machine learning to encode data decouple data from its respective data silos.52 50 into quartz glass. The glass is more resilient to Businesses challenged with legacy systems The platform combines transaction, research, environmental factors than traditional storage should focus on gradual, but targeted, technology market data and more into a data lake, and uses methods and is designed specifically for storage transition strategies that will help them build the machine learning algorithms to generate fresh and retrieval from the cloud. When Warner Bros. digital foundation they need to support today’s insights that guide decision-making. learned about it, the two companies collaborated constantly changing environment. This approach on the experiment’s first proof of concept—and will provide the basis for integration of DARQ successfully stored and retrieved the entire 1978 and future technologies. Superman movie.