After many meetings and discussions, your company has finally approved the decision to modernize a few key applications and address technical debt. That’s the good news. The bad news is the company wanted it yesterday, and you’re now scrambling to accelerate the app modernization process. Even though you provided a timeline when the project was […]
If money were no object, the most idyllic place I could imagine would be a mid-century modern Frank Lloyd Wright style house, designed to fit perfectly into a cliff overlooking the vastness of the ocean, treating residents and guests to breathtaking views. If I were to acquire such an imaginary bespoke architectural wonder from the […]
If, as McKinsey declares, every company is a software company, then it’s equally true that at some level, every company has a technical debt problem. As McKinsey also says, “Almost every business has some degree of tech debt” and “Poor management of tech debt hamstrings companies’ ability to compete.” With 86% of IT executives reporting […]
For a growing number of companies today, app modernization is a high priority. They’re attempting to update their IT infrastructure and reduce costs by moving software applications out of their on-premises data centers and into the cloud. According to CloudZero, more than two-thirds already have some or all of their IT estate in the cloud, […]
Application modernization continues to gain traction. According to Foundry’s State of The CIO Study 2023, modernizing applications and infrastructures remains the third-highest initiative for Chief Information Officers (CIOs). It is also among the top five factors driving IT investment dollars in 2023. In fact, 91% of CIOs expect their budgets to increase or remain the […]
How to avoid mistakes when modernizing applications As Chief Ecosystem Officer at vFunction, Bob Quillin is considered an expert in the topic of application modernization, specifically, modernizing monolithic Java applications into microservices and building a business case to do so. In his role at vFunction, inevitably, he is asked the question, “Where do I start?” […]
How to get buy-in and budget for successful application modernization Bob Quillin, chief ecosystem officer at vFunction, is an industry expert when it comes to application modernization. He often finds that the biggest hurdle to application modernization is developing a compelling business case to take on such a complicated task that can be costly and […]
Why do application modernizations fail 79% of the time? Red Hat and vFunction answered that question at Red Hat Summit 2023 and provided three recipes for success. Co-presented by Markus Nagel, Principal Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat and Bob Quillin, Chief Ecosystem Officer at vFunction, the session is now available on-demand on the Red […]
Can technical debt cause business disasters? Just ask Southwest Airlines: their technical debt caused a shutdown during the 2022 Christmas season that cost the company more than $1 billion, not to mention the goodwill of irate customers who were stranded by the collapse of the carrier’s flight and crew scheduling system. Or you could ask […]
The three-layered (or three-tiered) application architecture has served for decades as the fundamental design framework for modern software development. It came to the fore in the 1990s as the predominant development approach for client-server applications and is still widely used today. Many organizations continue to depend on three-layer Java applications for some of their most […]
