Why modernising applications needs to be a ‘must’ for businesses seeking growth

Around one-third of enterprises are spending heavily on application modernisation and aiming for cloud native status. The implications for corporate culture, structure and priorities will be profound. Credit: AWS | IBM As business strive to roll out technology-driven transformations that reduce cost and drive innovation, more IT leaders are seeking to modernise critical enterprise applications. The key reason behind this trend is that legacy application architectures can slow down time to market and make businesses less flexible: the consequences of which can worsen customer sentiment and reduce growth. Instead, IT leaders are investing in microservices and DevOps practices which improve performance, enable innovation, and improve developer productivity. Recent Foundry research underlines the growing focus in this area. Half of the IT decision makers questioned in the State of the CIO study say they are more heavily involved in cloud migration projects this year. Among those with rising budgets to supervise, four out of 10 identify application modernisation as one of the priorities driving increased investment. CIOs have got the message. The days of lift and shift cloud migration strategies are numbered. Modernising applications using cloud native tooling and development processes has gone mainstream. As Dhana Vadivelan, EMEA Partner SA […]

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