Up-to-date infrastructure is essential for a digital transformation - old infrastructure can hinder the development team’s ability to produce quickly and flexibly, slowing down the time to market. For an organization to stay competitive, it must use agile applications to leverage new automation and data processing solutions. In some cases, organizations commit to updating their infrastructure regularly - in other cases, organizations might overhaul their entire infrastructure.
An organization that modernizes its applications can enjoy several benefits, including faster development pipelines, reduced costs, higher productivity, robust support, and new functionality. The most important benefit is to provide a good user experience, which is harder to do with aging infrastructure.
Another significant benefit of application modernization is the reduced expenses of cloud or hybrid hosting strategies. This approach reduces hardware and maintenance costs, allowing organizations to leverage new services provided by a third-party vendor. For example, some service providers offer automation and AI-based capabilities that would be expensive and difficult to implement in-house.
Modernizing applications can also increase development agility and speed, allowing organizations to maintain a competitive advantage. Demanding customers often require ongoing rollouts of new features and upgrades. New technologies can also support flexible working models, such as remote work, contributing to staff productivity.