The software industry is continuously evolving; we saw hard-coded websites that were almost replaced by drag-and-drop or no-code website builders. That was until the method of hard coding website made its comeback with better performance, speed, customizability, etc.
Now, both techniques work in harmony with one another, but who knows, we might see a new competitor or imbalance in the power struggle in the future.
The point is, that staying stagnated in a software industry is not an option; you must continually adapt to superior trends. Unless you are perfectly fine being replaced by the competitors that do… (which you aren’t!).
Therefore, ahead are the top 03 heavy-hitter features you can add to modernize your legacy systems with outsourcing software development.
01. Boosting Scalability To Your Desire
Scalability implies that a company is able to handle more work and cater to the needs of more customers without sacrificing quality.
In the software development industry that might mean adding more servers to increase computational capabilities. However, the question is are the servers going to be utilized completely at all times?
The answer is no – for software applications, the demand is always fluctuating. It might experience more users at some times of the day, during holidays, or in a season. So, is it a good idea to have enough servers to accommodate the most number of users at peak loads, only to have all the expensive equipment idle with minimum utilization at off-peak hours?
No! But do you have a choice? Absolutely!
With cloud computing you can scale up or scale down based on user demand; and, you will be charged only for the computational resources that are being used instead of entire server PCs.
Amazon’s AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure are some of the cloud providers that can help you scale according to your demand. Netflix, for example, has been known to utilize cloud migration to accommodate overwhelming amounts of traffic during holidays and show premiers.
02. Modernizing With A Continuous Delivery Model
The continuous delivery model, which goes hand-in-hand with continuous integration (CI/CD), is used to automate the development and delivery of software systems.
It means you can make several code changes multiple times a day and send them to production ASAP. It results in faster release cycles, fewer bugs, enhanced stability, better software quality, and much more.
This, continuous deployment approach, is categorized in a set of practices known as DevOps. These DevOps practices, combined with agile methodologies, have been found to increase the speed of IT services by 30 to 50 percent.
03. Automating With Machine Reengineering
Machine reengineering is a set of practices that employ machine learning techniques to automate business processes.
According to research by Harvard Business Review, more than 1/3rd of the early adopters experienced big improvements thanks to machine-reengineering. They were able to reduce costs by 15 to 70% in some processes. While a few companies were able to make their employees 10x more effective or better at creating value.
For example, a financial company utilized voice recognition technology to speed things up for their customers by identifying them by their voices. This eliminated the need for a 4-step authentication process and made call routing 50% more efficient.
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Final Thoughts
If you are thinking of modernizing legacy systems, then it is the right time for you to resort to outsourced software development. The top 03 features listed above are only the tip of the iceberg, and you can have several more features in 2023; more will come as time progresses.
For example, security – Equifax protected the data of over 143 million unsuspecting customers by updating outdated versions of Apache Struts.
More examples include gathering insights and making them comprehensible with the help of dashboards, adding microservices for simplicity, and using the right technology stack for software development.
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The article was written in cooperation with the experts of SoftKraft – Real Estate (PropTech) Software Development
