“Jim Gfrerer, CIO at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), said today that the agency is ‘constantly looking to modernize several hundred technical functions and applications in order to improve on legacy technology environments.”
“’While we do manage a software factory … we have 830 applications that we are constantly looking to retire, refactor, and replace,’ Gfrerer said at a virtual event organized by Nextgov and Defense One.”
“’Everything we are doing,’ he said, is geared toward moving applications to ‘modernized platforms,’ and to an ‘environment that is a manageable environment,’ the CIO said. That includes ‘moving things to a cloud, and off-premise environments,’ and getting away from legacy architectures, he explained. Part of that effort is looking use ‘best of breed commercial applications,’ he said.”
“By way of example, Gfrerer explained how VA revamped service it provides to veterans’ caregivers by replacing existing technology with a new low-code platform that delivers better service. Choosing the low-code platform, he said, ‘helps things move fast…’” Read the full report here.
Source: VA CIO Outlines ‘Constant’ Effort to Modernize Hundreds of Applications – By John Curran, November 9, 2020. MeriTalk.
