Legacy databases are a major obstacle to businesses meeting their ambitions for improving new customer experiences and engagement. Despite having clear ambitions, many businesses struggle with using data due to limitations in legacy database technology, which cannot support the demands of digital experiences that foster customer engagement. These experiences require agile, reliable, and scalable solutions that can handle complex, interconnected, and varied data, but legacy databases are not equipped to meet these demands. In fact, only 41 percent of organizations say they can use data in real-time, and many databases cannot even provide a user experience that occurs within a day. The inability to support new technologies such as virtual or augmented reality, the Internet of Things, and Artificial Intelligence is also a major issue, with only 19 percent of digital decision makers believing their database could fully support these technologies if implemented tomorrow. As a result, legacy databases are an impediment to true digital innovation.