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Why is your loyalty to legacy systems costing you?

Have you been carrying on with your old-school systems for too long? Here’s why you need to modernize your enterprise soon.

Digital transformation is at its peak and it’s becoming more of a necessity than an initiative for all digital enterprises. As much as businesses want to transform digitally and embrace latest technology, it’s not a perfect world.

Almost all businesses carry decades-old legacy systems and disposing off the old school hardware and software can be an overwhelming process.

CIOs often face a dilemma between retaining legacy technology and bringing in latest technology to their enterprise. The question is how far can you take your legacy technology in this competitive, rapidly evolving IT space? If you too are torn between continuing with your aging technology and modernizing your enterprise, here’s why legacy systems are no good for your enterprise anymore.

Legacy systems are slow and complex
Businesses running on legacy technology know how frustrating it is when it takes forever to load data in an application, hours to perform simple tasks and ages to generate reports. Regardless of how trustworthy these legacy applications are, they’re not as fast and agile as modern technologies. Moreover, they come with complex structures and manual intervention. With changing times, businesses need to speed up their operations and depending on legacy systems will only cause performance hiccups.

Maintaining legacy systems is a costly affair
CIOs believe that migrating to new technology could be an expensive deal, and hence it’s better to continue with the aging systems. Let’s break the myth here. The truth is, maintaining ancient applications involves greater costs as opposed to replacing them.  On average, organizations spend from 60 to 85 percent of their IT budgets maintaining bulky hardware devices, staff training, vendor payments and support costs. So, if you’re thinking you aren’t yet prepared to spend on technology migration, you probably are already spending more than that on maintaining your legacy systems.

They’re incompatible with modern technology
In the modern business world, staying stagnant is not an option. Most mainframe applications are not compatible with new-age tools and software. This lack of flexibility restricts enterprises from being able to catch up with changing times and utilize latest market capabilities. This is a huge setback in terms of customer satisfaction and revenue management. Sticking to rigid legacy systems that fail to integrate with modern technology will put you much behind your competitors in the market.

Cybersecurity threats
Another myth associated with legacy systems is that they’re more immune to cybersecurity breaches compared to modern systems. While modern systems may be more vulnerable to security threats, it does not mean legacy systems are completely safe. Most businesses use mainframe systems for decades and they obviously carry huge sets of historical data, which could be exposed to malicious attacks at any given point in time. In fact, the older your legacy systems, the more they’re vulnerable to malware and security attacks.

Legacy systems do not support mobility
Your customers no longer depend on a desktop to access the internet. They use mobiles, smartphones and tablets to browse products, carry transactions and stay updated. As the need for mobile enablement grows for businesses, it is also imperative that the technology you use supports mobile engagement. Most legacy frameworks do not integrate with mobile technology, hindering mobile enablement for digital enterprises. If you want to catch up with your customers through mobile technology, you must consider migrating to a more modern and mobile platform.

Legacy systems were a thing back then. But today, a new wave of technology has taken over, and enterprises need to keep up with the changing times if they aspire to succeed. While technology modernization could be a very daunting decision to make, it is important to consider the pros and cons of continuing with mainframe systems. The wise option is to keep the ones that are still delivering business benefits, and replace the ones that are not.

DevOps: Significantly improving the Build-Test-Deploy cycle

There’s been a lot of buzz around the term ‘DevOps’ lately. What is DevOps all about? And why does a business need DevOps? There’s no one definition for DevOps, because DevOps is not just one thing. For someone who’s not very technically inclined, DevOps is simply a blend of the two words, Development and Operations. But if you dig in deeper, DevOps is a wider term and unfolds several aspects.

DevOps is not a tool or software. It is a set of best practices that builds a bridge between the software development and the operations professionals in an organization. The entire idea behind bringing DevOps into the picture is to improve the relationship between the two business units by better communication, and collaboration; and eventually improve business performance.

Adaptation of new methods and practices is a challenge for any organization. But, an understanding of the fact that software development, testing, QA and operations teams are mutually dependent is very important. Whether you believe in it or not, DevOps is not just a buzzword; it is a culture; a change in the mindset of individuals.

Why Do You Need DevOps?
Conflicts between development and operations are not new to the IT industry.  Developers write codes and build applications. Testers test the applications, which work perfectly in the test environment, except a few bugs that are duly treated. But when the application is deployed in the production environment, things start falling apart, and the blame game begins.

In a typical IT enterprise, this is a continuous game, and no one really benefits. In spite of similar objectives, the conflicts between development and operations eventually get in way of organizational success. This is where DevOps comes to rescue; to ensure functional efficiency and create a win-win situation for everyone.

Benefits of DevOps for Your Business
Ensures Quality
 – Initially, a newly developed application has several flaws. It is only when it is tested several times that a few bugs are fixed. Once approved by testers, the application is put to production, where obviously more bugs are noticed.
With the presence DevOps through the deployment process, more bug fixing can be done at any stage, with constant monitoring, and better communication; and the finished product (application) turns out to be of high quality.

Reduces Conflicts – The primary objective of DevOps is to fill the gap between operations and development professionals. By introducing better monitoring techniques, by improving the communication between the two ends, changing mindsets, and building team spirit in the organization, DevOps reduces communication gap and debating situations between ops and development teams.

The Agile Development – DevOps is backed with the advantages of Agile Development. In an Agile scenario, with tools like Scrum, the entire build-test-deploy cycle is condensed from weeks and months down to a couple of hours. DevOps and Agile go hand in hand to ensure a quick deployment procedure, ensuring higher productivity and efficiency.

Continuous Delivery – DevOps addresses all the major bottlenecks in the deployment procedure; people, processes and tools. It ensures that the development and operations work together right from the coding stage, where the operations can suggest necessary inputs, and that bugs are fixed immediately. This continuous interaction between teams, and improved coordination makes the procedure less complex, and easy to implement, leading to continuous delivery of quality applications.

When you decide to adopt DevOps in your business, you’re about to bring in a huge, constructive change in your organization. It’s a change in the mindset of people, a change in the way the IT industry traditionally operates, and like all changes, there’s resistance to the concept of DevOps. But, at the end of the day, it is all aimed at reducing conflicts, building stronger teams, improving the delivery process, and ensuring that organizational goals are met successfully.

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