Increasing interoperability sounds like a good reason to move the data to things that don't use GUI only proprietary interaction, rather than a good reason to throw some duct tape on. But that takes actual work
I don’t think even the RPA department will disagree on that one.
But while the 3rd 100million project to rewrite that legacy, proprietary cobolt data app is faltering, the RPA department is actually making it accessible via a rest api that activates a virtual mouse that clicks around and ctr+c,ctr-v the result back to the user.
The curse of building great digital infrastructure in the 80s is you might get stuck with it 40 years later.
Also, and I think this is underappreciated by the HN crowd, because they don't work at these types of companies -- interfacing with legacy business-critical applications.
Most software products that companies buy have interoperability as either the least prioritized feature or as something to be actively prohibited.
The best, brightest, most modern examples of software, we are not talking about.
But while the 3rd 100million project to rewrite that legacy, proprietary cobolt data app is faltering, the RPA department is actually making it accessible via a rest api that activates a virtual mouse that clicks around and ctr+c,ctr-v the result back to the user.
The curse of building great digital infrastructure in the 80s is you might get stuck with it 40 years later.