How Application Re-engineering Benefits Your Business

Swathi R
Embitel Technologies
3 min readApr 23, 2021

Technological expansion is happening everywhere, every day. It becomes difficult for enterprises to keep up with the trends frequently. There are various reasons to it.

Some enterprises hold outdated software systems where developers strive to integrate new applications into the legacy systems. Several businesses do not have a good technology design structure or framework. This makes upgradation difficult.

If any application is out of date and the performance of an enterprise is dependent on it, then it is time to go for application re-engineering.

Application re-engineering is now a pressing priority to businesses. From automating processes to setting up and managing system integration, enhancing scalability and successfully bridging gaps between legacy systems and newer technologies, we need application re-engineering.

Well, to put it simply, application re-engineering is a software upgrading or application migration process to a more advanced technology platform. Meanwhile, the current functions of the existing application are saved or only slightly modified.

Enterprises have realized that application re-engineering supports in analyzing existing systems, strengthening business agility, and providing better user experience along with ensuring constant system stability with lesser operational and maintenance costs. They have noticed that the overall productivity and performance of systems improved incredibly through application re-engineering.

It is time to look at some key application re-engineering processes that help you transform your business.

Database Migration

Migrating existing databases to newer ones through application re-engineering means you are reinventing legacy systems. This does require extra amount of work. No doubt that re-engineering services help enterprises grow into bigger and better agile systems but installing a new database all at once might lead to operational failure. This is where advanced application re-engineering processes come to the rescue by promoting phased database migration. This makes sure that there is minimum interruption in the business process.

Cloud Migration

A whole lot of enterprises host legacy systems on local infrastructure. This only results in increased maintenance costs, security breaches and jumbled workflows. Application re-engineering services aid businesses with cloud migration. You will see that there is drastic improvement in performance and productivity, increased scalability, and better regulation-compliance infrastructure at lesser costs — all while maintaining the core functionality of applications.

Localization and Globalization

Through application re-engineering, enterprises can deploy a product by designing and developing software to function at multiple locations across the globe without too many engineering dependencies. Likewise, it can also help in localization by modifying a product to match the requirements of a particular location internally.

Legacy Code Refactoring

There will definitely be a huge dump of legacy code (source code inherited from older version of the software) in the system. It can be re-engineered by breaking it down into segments and replacing it with small bits of code. This can be done for the entire framework. Each segment should be tested and integrated securely to make sure that the core functionality remains the same.

Improved Performance

Re-engineering helps you to identify and sort the root causes for poor performance in the system. You can see that application has picked up speed, there is lesser use of resources, efficiency has improved and so on. Once the objectives are clear to the developers, it becomes easy to execute.

Enterprises can benefit from application re-engineering as there is no need to build a software from the ground up. Re-engineering assists in tweaking some functionalities and improving the operations of the existing system. This results in increased ROI for businesses.

Conclusion

Re-engineered applications provide continuity and mitigate a lot of risks for enterprises. We at Embitel are proud of the fact that our proven methodology in this field has made our clients happy and satisfied.

Our team brings together the expertise, technology and tools to reengineer your software applications to latest technologies while retaining or upgrading the value of the applications.

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