Three Good Reasons To Modernise Your Applications

Three good reasons to modernise your applications

When the cost of maintaining legacy applications is more than replacing them, a new investment might seem like the obvious next step. But when you take into account the total cost of upskilling users to work with the new solution, changing the architecture to accommodate it, or starting from scratch with a license agreement, a more compelling business case may be made for application modernisation.

The trick is to see the warning signs and to act sooner rather than later. Here are three reasons to be proactive about starting the process.

Legacy is costing money and undermining performance/user experienceThis is the ticking time bomb that every business fears: service delivery failures, broken processes, incomplete transactions, expensive repairs, ‘vampire systems’ that suck up resources – compute power, storage, IT support – and lead to a loss of productivity and even downtime.The first red flags are a spike in maintenance costs. Obsolete IT may no longer have vendor support and becomes difficult and expensive to fix when things go wrong. Systemic threats to business continuity are an even bigger risk. Older apps are often stuck in silos that undermine an organisation’s workflows and dictate business operations in a bad way. Slow and clunky apps also frustrate employees, especially in an era when people are used to online consumer services that are slick, simple and reliable. Organisations that fail to replicate something similar in the workplace may struggle to find and keep staff.
Replace silos with cloud agility
Legacy applications are not usually compatible with a new wave of cloud and mobile technologies, limiting an organisation’s ability to share information, digitise workflows, surface data for analytics and enable remote working.The value in sweating old assets is also outweighed by the benefits of a new agility, widely recognised as way to achieve competitive advantage. And modernising applications is not just about migrating them to the cloud, it’s about reimagining the way they work, streamlining resources they use, and the way they interact with the wider IT environment. At Ergo, modernising apps is about exploring innovative ways to apply new technologies. Primary drivers are about replacing silos and locked-down databases with an open and integrated alternative that delivers more value, a better performance and advances rather than hinders business and IT strategies.
Capitalise on next-generation security and data analytics
Two of the hottest topics in business technology are security and analytics. Legacy applications serve neither well, whereas cloud solutions provide robust layers of protection (that few businesses can emulate) and increasingly integrate business intelligence as standard – think of Power PI in the Microsoft Azure environment. Older applications are a security nightmare: many are riddled with extraneous code that make them more vulnerable to hacks and lack contemporary encryption features like multifactor authentication and single sign-on.The data attached to applications is another reason to modernise them. You might have to retain databases to meet regulatory requirements or need access to data sets because of their value to the business. Modernising is often about finding cost effective ways to keep data secure while at the same time making it more accessible.With all three, it’s about extracting more value from older applications and turning their age into business advantage. It can be done incrementally, starting with a move to the cloud to reduce complexity and increase agility. Security can be another quick win, because an updated stack of applications is far more difficult for hackers to breach. And then existing data in the application can be made more widely available for advanced analytics.Every journey will be different but the point of modernisation is the same, opening up the possibility of a journey, as opposed to a legacy app that does little, costs money and undermines the business. Talk to our experts to start your modernisation journey.

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Posted : 05.08.2021

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