The best alternative to rewriting for the cloud or new features
Summary
Development companies are therefore faced with how best to refresh what might be an ageing product, either into fully-native SaaS, or at least transforming relevant parts of an application so that it better fits with existing and new customers’ expectations, in the most cost efficient manner possible. The weight of the big players’ marketing spend (think SAP, Salesforce, NetSuite and so on) means that ISVs have to contend with customers who feel they have to turn to a name they can “trust”, rather than seek out a more suitable, more focused, and usually much cheaper alternative. In an ideal cloud deployment, modularity and add-ons take the place of the expensive-to-maintain bespoke features of on-premise applications, plus, for software development companies there’s welcome predictability with regards income. Companies can offer elastic, scalable cloud-based applications quickly, combining the cloud’s ubiquity with the established knowledge base their product represents. In those cases, you can now provide your customers with a new solution designed for the next stage of their digital journey quickly and at a fraction of the cost involved in traditional development.