Matt Healy — Pega
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If your data is trapped in on-prem databases, or it’s trapped in proprietary data structures… you’re just unable to unlock the sort of fuel that you need to power AI-driven transformation now. So there’s all the same imperatives around getting off of legacy systems that have always been there—customer experience, automation, overall cost and maintenance—and now this just adds more fuel to the fire.
What does Matt Healy say on The Agile Brand with Greg Kihlström?
Matt Healy, Pega, says: In this interview, Matt Healy of Pega explains how decades of technical debt and siloed legacy systems are blocking organizations from realizing AI-driven personalization and automation. Healy links trapped data and poor workplace software to lost productivity and talent attrition, and argues that AI now makes modernization faster and more economically feasible—turning long-deferred rip-and-replace projects into achievable initiatives that unlock business and employee value.
From: The Agile Brand with Greg Kihlström
Cite as: Matt Healy. (2026). On The Agile Brand with Greg Kihlström. Retrieved from https://research.agilebrandguide.com/insights/matt-healy-if-your-data-is-trapped-in-on-prem-databases-or-its-trappe