Article by Radware APJ vice president and managing director, Yaniv Hoffman.
At a time when digital transformation has become central to business, even the most important applications come with a ‘use-by’ date. Left unchecked, legacy code inside these applications can become a hindrance over time, limiting DevOps teams whose job it is to innovate.
Monolithic legacy on-premises applications rely on older and more limited frameworks, software libraries and operating systems. This creates knock-on problems when deploying these applications with newer software architectures and forces DevOps to expend resources attempting to integrate and understand legacy code.
Legacy applications are also more likely to suffer the sort of security issues that can be difficult to mitigate.
Application modernisation is an approach that yields clear benefits by allowing organisations to overcome these problems without simply abandoning applications altogether, updating enough code to bind the old and the new together.
Through application modernisation, organisations can enhance existing applications, integrating them with newer frameworks and infrastructure platforms. This makes it possible to protect existing investments while refreshing their software portfolios throughout the business environment.
Since everything from initial software development to the customer experience relies on data integrity and efficiency, modernising legacy applications helps improve data quality across workflows. Organisations can mitigate the bottlenecks that arise from legacy systems, which nearly always compromise new projects.
Some advantages of application modernisation include:
# Business agility – makes it possible to add new features, services and support cloud infrastructure.
# Cost reduction – eliminates unused or redundant functions to save on costs, allowing more investment in innovation rather than legacy management.
# Improved security – integrates new security features that reduce the chance of data or system compromise.
# Improved performance – speeds up legacy applications a ..
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