<p>AMP has invested heavily in IT to modernise legacy systems dating back to the 1950s, streamline applications and accommodate the AXA merger. Photo: Michael Clayton-Jones</p><p>AMP is in the final stages of a wide-ranging technology overhaul after merging with AXA Asia Pacific Holdings two years ago.</p><p>The wealth management company, operating since 1849, has over the past two years attempted to adopt the best of both AMP and AXA technology to integrate the companies' systems. It has now decommissioned all AXA's mainframes that were hosted in the US by IBM and moved out of its Australian data centres.</p><p>AMP mainframe applications, some managing legacy systems from the 1950s, have been moved to a new IBM mainframe now hosted in outsourcer CSC's Victorian data centre. A second facility is in Sydney.</p><p><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/amp-concludes-tech-overhaul-after-axa-merger-20130325-2gq3p.html">Keep reading...</a></p>