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You’ve been given the green light to modernize a legacy system; however, the monolithic application provides core functionality to the entire organization. It has to remain operational during the process. You could leave the existing code in production while developing a microservices-based architecture, but you don’t have the resources to modernize and maintain the old […]
Organizations continue to prioritize legacy application modernization, with 50% of companies planning to modernize their legacy appplications in the next two years. Within five years, at least 75% plan to complete their modernization. How businesses approach their modernization can determine how disruptive the shift will be. The methods can increase or decrease the cost and […]
As a Chief Information Officer (CIO) or Chief Technology Officer (CTO), you and your team may have spent weeks, if not months, every year measuring the technical debt of your legacy applications and infrastructure. You’ve examined aging frameworks, software defect patterns, code quality, release frequencies, and technical debt ratios. You’ve presented the data to other […]
Every company should have a little technical debt, but keeping it below the recommended 5% can be challenging. If companies aren’t careful, the debt can grow to 10%, 50%, or even 80-90% in extreme cases. According to McKinsey, the average technical debt is between 20% and 40%. Repaying that quantity of debt takes planning, vigilance, […]
A report published by OutSystems revealed that 69% of IT leaders found that technical debt fundamentally limits their ability to innovate. In addition, 61% stated that it negatively affects their organization’s performance, and 64% believe that technical debt will continue to have a substantial impact in the future. The report further explained that, in some […]
In today’s market environment, the ability to quickly take advantage of new technological capabilities is of paramount importance to a company’s ability to maintain or enhance its competitive position. That’s why for many businesses, the modernization of their legacy application portfolio has become not just a high priority but an existential necessity. The problem such […]
Almost any organization that develops software for internal or external use will sooner or later have to face the issue of technical debt. That’s especially the case if the organization depends on legacy apps for some of its critical business processing. Because technical debt makes it extremely difficult for a company to maintain and update […]
Many companies depend on legacy software for some of their most business-critical processing. But useful as they are, those applications can hold companies back from being able to keep pace with rapidly changing marketplace demands. The culprit is the technical debt of their legacy apps. Technical debt makes software difficult and risky to change, which […]
For companies that depend on legacy applications for critical business processing, modernizing those apps to make them compatible with today’s technologically sophisticated cloud ecosystem is crucial. But because most legacy apps are monolithic, updating them can be a difficult, time-consuming, and risky process. A monolithic codebase is organized as a single unit that has function […]
For many companies today, modernizing their legacy apps is a top priority. They recognize that although those apps are critical to their business operations, they’re also major hindrances to the organization’s ability to keep pace in its marketplace. That’s because legacy apps, which are typically structured as monolithic architectures, are very difficult to update to […]
