Why You Should Consider Application Modernization for Your Business
As a business, you have spent a lot of money building business-critical web applications that have helped you run your operations for years. But over the years, even if the web application is helping you run your critical business operations, it might not be sufficient to continue using it due to many limitations.
At Facile Technolab, based on our expertise in modernizing many applications over the last 9 years, here are the top 5 reasons why you should consider application modernization:
1. Change in Business
In today's fast-paced world, businesses must adapt, and it is very common for a business to change direction to become more profitable. Adding more features to an existing business application built using a legacy tech stack and maintained on in-house hardware might not be advantageous in the long term.
2. Cloud Adoption
More than 70% of companies have now migrated at least some workloads into the public cloud, according to Gartner research. Using legacy business applications built on deprecated technologies might result in data corruption, data loss, data breach, or other serious problems that can badly affect your business. Putting your data and your customers' data at risk can leave you with serious repercussions. Cloud adoption can help overcome such issues.
3. Compatibility
Monolithic or legacy business applications built with old technology aren't cross-device compatible and cannot be used across desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobiles. This limitation might badly impact your operations. Application modernization can bring in better user experience and cross-device compatible UI that can be accessed across all devices.
4. Security
Applications built with legacy tech stacks can become hot and easy targets for hackers. Application modernization with a good cloud migration strategy includes safe and secure cloud-native tech stacks that will provide good security measures against such attacks.
5. Innovation
Application modernization will facilitate new business capabilities and bring in innovation. Businesses can better see the unforeseen future market, technology, and customer trends, and can be prepared to take advantage of the same from today itself.
Additional Technical Benefits of Modernization
- Performance: If you include a cloud adoption strategy with your application modernization, you can easily configure your cloud infrastructure to consistently serve customers regardless of traffic. The latest tech stack is built for better performance as well.
- Automation: The business software you built many years ago with the technologies and tools available at that time. Certain features in your business applications can now be easily automated, helping improve productivity, operational excellence, or efficient business operations. Application modernization will take care of these features by replacing them with better-suited automation, cloud services, or third-party services.
- Integrations: Thanks to the startup ecosystem, evolution of cloud, and modern-day technologies, there are many business tools available to directly integrate. Being on legacy software might not integrate with these modern tools and keep your business from operating efficiently.
- Maintenance and Operational Cost: Using legacy business applications prevents you from retiring in-house infrastructure and migrating to cost-efficient cloud services. Application modernization might involve a one-time cost but will set you free from maintaining in-house hardware infrastructure and save costs in the long term.
Above are the top reasons why you should consider application modernization for your business.
Brick - SaaS Starter Kit brings you the modern, cloud-native, secure, and high-performance stack that you can use to modernize your legacy software. If your business application is solving your problems well, you can release it as SaaS and help others in your industry solve the same problem.