Infographic Modern Apps: A Strategic Roadmap
By Insight Editor / 8 May 2023
Most IT leaders say there is a need to modernize critical applications, but knowledge gaps, bandwidth and budgets get in the way. View the infographic to learn the Insight approach for strategically tackling app modernization in your organization.
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Lead your organization toward transformation. Insight will help you create a strategic roadmap for creating a modern app environment.
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Modern Apps: A Strategic Roadmap
Lead your organization toward transformation with this strategic roadmap for creating a modern app environment.
Lay of the land: What are IT leaders saying about modern apps?
- 87% say they need to modernize critical apps to realize digital transformation.
- 60% say operational efficiency is the top driver of app modernization.
- 56% say competitive advantage and innovation are the goals of app modernization.
Reasons to get going: Key drivers for modernizing the app environment
What’s driving your application initiatives? Common drivers include:
- Competitive advantage - Providing high-value experiences to carve out a competitive edge
- Innovation – Taking advantage of new approaches and techniques to create solutions that enable state-of-the-art experiences, performance and capabilities for the application consumer
- Tech debt - Mitigating risk, cost and inefficiency with modern platforms, frameworks and solution approaches
- Security - Ensuring higher security standards with modern IT and best practices
- Tech constraints - Enabling speed, flexibility and productivity with cutting-edge technology
4 common roadblocks
Forward-thinking organizations aren’t immune to the obstacles they may face during modernization. Here are some common pain points that businesses struggle with and often seek outside support for:
- Knowledge gaps: Whether teams don’t know how to leverage modern approaches/tools or have a framework for understanding the trade-offs between approaches that align to the best benefit for the business, it can be hard for initiatives to get off the ground without the right team or expertise.
- Bandwidth: Even with skilled individuals, organizations might realize they lack the scale needed to carry out modernization projects on a realistic timeline. In these cases, it makes sense to leverage external support.
- Timelines & budgets: For companies with less experience modernizing technology, it can be difficult to: (1) develop realistic timelines, (2) allocate a budget and (3) manage projects effectively.
- Misaligned expectations & outcomes: Differing perspectives of developers, leadership and other teams can make it hard to plan and execute modernization projects
A strategic route: The Insight approach
Modernizing your app environment requires a robust investment of time and resources that generate value. We have developed a unique framework approach that will allow you to take full advantage of the tools and technology available to you to achieve your digital transformation goals. The following framework facilitates the digital transformation through application modernization:
- Align: Insight can help IT and business stakeholders align on goals to prioritize a new application or legacy app modernization.
- Assess: Insight experts assess your current app landscape to identify gaps and opportunities.
- Plan: Insight drafts a plan for executing your modern app initiative(s) with best practices and repeatable processes.
- Modernize: Insight helps you launch your app initiative — from legacy app migration to development and rollout.
- Manage & Innovate: Insight can come alongside you with support and management capabilities for your ongoing journey.
