Legacy System Modernization, the need of the Hour for a business’s Digital Transformation

Modernization is a critical factor for any business to survive today. Technology updates and upgrades affect any organisation’s ability to perform and compete in a fast changing business landscape. Modernization of legacy systems and applications is a unique process. It means organisations have to take up new software but along with their existing or old ones. This process refers to changing or rewriting the current platforms or tools. It may be to port a part or entire systems to new platforms, new library or even new language, which may need a wide range of tools, concepts or technologies. A legacy system set up for a purpose may still work today but restricts the scope for expansion in future.

Why Modernize Your Legacy Systems?

• There are many ways to modernize your legacy system, but that does not mean just replacement. You can re-architect to build a new environment. You can re-host an application with more advanced features. Or you can rework/rewrite/rebuild code or components from scratch.
• The objective to modernize legacy systems is to improve performance of your systems. Outdated or obsolete tools or platforms may cost more to maintain and so modernization will reduce risks and downtime and also optimize cost.
• Legacy systems are liable to vulnerabilities. Modernize your infrastructure to manage security, compliance and risks better.

Change Management

Organisation who wish to migrate their legacy systems to a new environment, need to undergo changes from managerial to operational and technical skills. They need to adopt new equipment, skills and processes over a period. They have to handle change management well.

Integration Management

Just replacement alone may not work when you are changing a whole or part of a system, or a module or a component. Issues may arise and can be addressed for process overlapping, data duplication or the temporary management of bridging the systems. To ensure the system delivers, organisations need to test the system thoroughly and evaluate performance. To streamline the digital transformation and modernization process, proper collaboration between teams of the organisation with a clear vision and long term strategy is important.

Trends in Legacy System Modernization

Moving to the Cloud – One popular way to modernize is to move your old systems to the cloud for flexibility, better performance and scalability.

Automation – Moving away from the manual system and automating it helps organisations to reduce operational costs, man hours and increase efficiency.

Big Data – Data-driven decision making is possible with digitisation and the enormous amount of data generated can be analysed using smart, AI-powered tools for deeper insights.

Mobile First – A majority of organisations and businesses have embraced mobile technology to reap the benefits of connectivity and cater to the mobile first world of consumers.

 

ANGLER has the expertise and experience to cater to the critical needs of digital transformation and online business development. We will be able to work on your legacy system modernization too as we have worked across multiple industry verticals on various projects. As a partnering offshore software development company for diverse domains and industries, Angler has the resources to provide a variety of software solutions to demanding clients, be it a startup, small business or a large enterprise, adapting to the market demands in good as well as bad times. To learn more about services and also other products, please visit www.angleritech.com or just leave us an enquiry, or call us  and we’ll get in touch with you.