In an era of rapid technological modernization, reliance on suboptimal legacy applications is the biggest barrier to a swift and successful transition to the cloud-native future. A Futurum research titled "Navigating Innovation in AI, Application Development, and Observability" finds that over two-thirds (88%) of the applications deployed in enterprises are legacy assets. These software products, built on outdated architecture—and maintained using waterfall processes—are past their prime, and are not fit to meet modern business demands. However, for many organizations, retiring these outdated applications is tricky due to the critical roles they play in service delivery.
A large percentage of the applications that are still in heritage state are now trying to get out of that," says Paul Nashawaty, principal analyst and practice lead at The Futurum Group. At an Ignite Talk hosted by Tech Field Day at the AppDev Field Day, Nashawaty focused on how firms can accrue the benefits of newer technologies by upgrading their heritage estates. The app modernization market is expanding at a rate of 16.8% CAGR and is projected to reach $24.8 billion by the end of next year.
According to an Infosys survey that polled 1500 tech leaders and executives, only one-tenth of legacy applications will be left by the end of 2027. Enterprises upgrade aging applications that are still fit for purpose to a cloud-ready or cloud-native state using a range of invasive and non-invasive strategies such as internal architecture upgrades, integration of new features and functionality, exposure of functions through APIs, and maintenance using modern principles like DevOps and CI/CD. Nashawaty notes that "Cloud-ready and cloud-native are two different things..."
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