Gen Z and digitally savvy customers live off and depend heavily on fast-paced software applications and digital apps. Traditional applications are less responsive and cannot handle the concurrent load of thousands of users. They fall short of customer expectations and technically take months and years for feature incorporation and software upgrades. As a result, the enterprises live with these shortfalls and hardly incorporate customer feedback leading to customer dissatisfaction and high attrition. As the evolving socioeconomic factors demand remote operations and monitoring, scalability, speed, and agility are becoming synonymous with business sustainability and stability. Application Modernization over the Cloud allows enterprises to tide over all these shortfalls and adopt the digital revolution at an accelerated pace.
How does Application Modernization enable enterprises?
As traditional application management, maintenance, and application upgrades that follow the Waterfall model of the software development lifecycle, take long winding paths into development, testing, production, and deployment, they frequently miss the customer expectations fulfillment on time. Application Modernization allows taking the on-premise applications to the Cloud Native environment in containerized microservices format. In this format, the enterprises can introduce their applications with new features and functionalities within hours and minutes. It allows prompt software upgrades without significant downtime. As a result, it allows to adopt CloudDevOps and Agile methodologies and fulfill the customer expectations at an accelerated pace. Further, leveraging Application Modernization in a Hybrid Cloud environment allows enterprises to optimize their Cloud spending by selectively engaging different Public Cloud Service providers to suit the business goals.
How is Application Modernization influenced by Agile and CloudDevOps?
Application Modernization allows continuous innovations over the minimum viable products. As the application in the Cloud Native environment is in containerized microservices format, it allows individual feature upgrades with the downtime of one microservice affecting the performance of the overall application. As a result, enterprises can upgrade their applications with Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery in the Cloud Native environment.
Advantages of Application Modernization over Traditional Applications
Application Modernization brings significant advantages to the table –
· Eliminates Technical Debt: Clears the technical debt that accumulates due to declining patch up-gradation and software support, introduces limitless scalability, and reduces operational costs.
· Facilitates accelerated feature introduction: Promotes a microservices architecture that can be leveraged to introduce new features and upgrades at an accelerated pace.
· Offers Agile environment: Allows upgrades by leveraging Agile and CloudDevOps that promote CI/CD.
· Propagates collaboration: Promotes collaboration between development, testing, production, deployment, and operations for agile upgrades.
· Promotes Intelligent Automation: Facilitates the modern Intelligent Automation paradigm by engaging the otherwise standalone and legacy systems.
· Introduces Customer Delight: Accelerated operations and the Cloud Native environment-powered digital platforms are instrumental in eliciting customer delight and influencing the net promoter scores.
Simply put
Cloud-based Application Modernization facilitates dynamic feature incorporation and agile software upgrades. The containerized microservices architecture in the Cloud Native environment in general and Hybrid Cloud in specific drives tremendous flexibility, agility, and scalability. As a result, enterprises can take their traditional applications to a totally new level at an accelerated pace.
