Whether yours is a small or medium sized business (SME) or a large enterprise, your IT team is probably always overstretched. With ongoing maintenance and support, and small and large one-time projects, upgrades, and fixes, it is difficult (if not impossible) to take on other types of projects – projects that may drive the enterprise forward.
Recent research reveals that software companies should focus on building and improving specific components of the business in order to ensure success and continued competition:
This Client is an ERP Solution provider from Ahmedabad, India with more than twenty (20) years in business. It serves numerous industries in India, many of which are Multinational Companies (MNCs). The Client provides ready to use ERP solutions for specific domains and industries. This Client also provides services and solutions for Bespoke ERP, based upon its customer business needs, processes and workflow.
Like most businesses, yours had probably grown and is vastly different now than it was at its inception. You’ve added software, maybe even built some yourself, and your technology infrastructure has changed to accommodate the changing times, security and user needs, etc. As your technology landscape changes and you add best-of-breed, enterprise applications, mobile apps and other solutions, you find yourself in a much more complex and detailed environment than you anticipated.
Let me tell you a story. My friend, Shaniqua just got a new job and found, to her dismay, that her first project involved the re-engineering of a software product the business had introduced to the market (to less than favorable response). I talked to Shaniqua on the phone and we discussed her conundrum. The business loved the software product but consumers had a lot of issues with its responsiveness, the lack of an intuitive user experience (Ux) design and many other details, including loading data that was integrated from other sources. In short, the original software product design and development was less than stellar and now the company was paying the price.
When a business invests in software and applications, it invests time and money and training. It comes to depend on the software and solutions and its team members become familiar with the ebb and flow of information and the resulting business processes and workflow that grows up around these solutions.
Many businesses fail to consider the real competitive, technical and business benefits of software reengineering. Yet the time, expense, risk and effort involved in this process is necessary in today’s changing technical and business landscape. Failure to recognize the need for, and benefits of, software re-engineering can stall a business and cause declining productivity and business revenue. If a business undertakes a software re-engineering project with a methodical technical and business requirements roadmap, and careful planning and resources, it will ensure rapid ROI and low TCO, as well as swift user adoption, improved customer satisfaction and increased sales and competitive business success.
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It’s time to do some Spring cleaning! Your business has probably had its existing software environment for a while and it may or may not satisfy the new requirements of your business users, consumers and stakeholders! Application modernization services can be a valuable asset in reviewing and understanding the strengths and weaknesses of your current infrastructure, software and technology environment and in creating a plan and a roadmap to get you where you need to go in a dependable, affordable, timely manner.
Your business has spent a long time building its technology infrastructure. Legacy systems, best-of-breed software, mobile apps, ERP, HR, CRM and lots of other alphabet-based applications to serve the needs of team members, departments, senior management and even the technology staff. But things change. Business users, customers and partners have new expectations and needs and the prospect of buying or creating new apps and sites is overwhelming. Even if you had the money and the staff, these projects would take so long to finish and by the time you finished your needs would have changed again.
Products that have become too complex to management, services and SILO’s that’s just patched and patched and finally makes no sense or outright crazy to manage.
These are all cases for re-engineering.
Re-engineering happens to be effective adaptive word for systems re innovation, a simple example can be found in the banking systems.
They are doing essentially the same thing, but operating more efficiently.
That’s one of the goals of re-engineering.
Speaking of banking example, banks decided at some point that the majority of the transactions involving cash can be optimized by putting an automated teller machine. So the resource called cashier had much less to do and the customers who were there only for cash withdrawal can now, just use the ATM’s and be out of the system.
