When a business invests in software and applications, it invests time and money and training. It comes to depend on the software and solutions and its team members become familiar with the ebb and flow of information and the resulting business processes and workflow that grows up around these solutions.
It’s time to do some Spring cleaning! Your business has probably had its existing software environment for a while and it may or may not satisfy the new requirements of your business users, consumers and stakeholders! Application modernization services can be a valuable asset in reviewing and understanding the strengths and weaknesses of your current infrastructure, software and technology environment and in creating a plan and a roadmap to get you where you need to go in a dependable, affordable, timely manner.
So, your business spent a whole lot of money creating an app and, in a few short years, that app is woefully behind the times. Before you decide to scrap the foundation and start over, with the resulting high cost and lengthy development process ahead of you), know this: in many, many cases, software re-engineering can be your salvation!
I recently attended a technology conference where I listened to attendees grumble about outdated technology, and apps and software products that just didn’t deliver when it comes to performance, scalability and navigation on smart phones and other portable devices. These same people said that they could not justify the cost or time required to complete a software re-engineering project.
If your organization has invested in a software application and that application is showing its age, you need to seriously consider software reengineering. While many companies think that application modernization services will take too long and cost too much money, you must consider the alternative. Business users and the IT team demand applications that are easy to maintain, easy-to-use and suitable for mobile devices. Every team member expects to use a software application that will make life easier (not an application that will frustrate them and handcuff them or prevent them from doing the best job possible, in a timely fashion).
You have invested a ton of money in your software and applications and now you (and your customers) have outgrown them. Maybe they aren’t mobile-friendly. Maybe they aren’t user friendly. Maybe they are just a disaster and they don’t integrate with any other apps or solutions so you are dealing with a bunch of silos and restricted environments.
Unless you have been living on another planet for the past few years, you know that the Cloud is the big thing. As businesses move from structured, restrictive data storage to the Cloud, they realize the benefits in the area of productivity, flexibility and cost.
When an organization undertakes a software reengineering project, it is often because a solution is not performing well in terms of scalability, mobile navigation or other issues. One of the things that may get left out of the software reengineering services is the issue of user experience design. Ux Design is critical to the user satisfaction (whether your users are in-house or consumers), and will affect user adoption, productivity and the overall success of the application, portal or site.
Your business has spent a long time building its technology infrastructure. Legacy systems, best-of-breed software, mobile apps, ERP, HR, CRM and lots of other alphabet-based applications to serve the needs of team members, departments, senior management and even the technology staff. But things change. Business users, customers and partners have new expectations and needs and the prospect of buying or creating new apps and sites is overwhelming. Even if you had the money and the staff, these projects would take so long to finish and by the time you finished your needs would have changed again.
Why would you consider Software Reengineering? Well, for starters, if you want to remain relevant, you have to take an honest look at your current applications and compare them to the market and to your competitors. Be honest! Are you offering your customers and stakeholders a set of tools that performs well on all devices and screen sizes, within the office or on the road? If not, you will lose business. Today’s consumers and employees have no patience for apps that slow them down, or frustrate them with confusing navigation or slow performance.
