Application Modernization with Microsoft Power Platform
Application modernization is crucial for improving operational efficiency, enhancing customer experiences, and staying ahead of the competition.
Why Microsoft Power Platform?
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations face the constant challenge of modernizing their legacy applications to keep pace with changing business needs. Application modernization is crucial for improving operational efficiency, enhancing customer experiences, and staying ahead of the competition. Microsoft Power Platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools and technologies that empower businesses to transform and modernize their applications quickly and effectively.
The comprehensive tools and technologies that make up the Power Platform dramatically lower the length, cost, and development requirements of modernization and digital transformation projects. Its low-code approach reduces—and can even eliminate—the need for expensive coding, data science, and AI engineering resources. Citizen developers and pro developers alike benefit. Citizen developers can take an active role in the modernization process, building applications directly based on their domain expertise and reducing their dependency on IT teams. Pro developers can deliver even complex solutions in far less time, freeing them to move on to the next project sooner.
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Key benefits of Power Platform for app modernization
Lower costs. Organizations can save money on app development and maintenance. A commissioned study by Forrester Consulting found that organizations that use Power Platform can see a 45 percent decrease in application development costs and realize a 140% return on their investment.
Expand the resource pool and eliminate bottlenecks. Professional developers, data scientists, and AI engineers are highly paid—and in high demand. Small- to medium-sized organizations often don’t have the luxury of inhouse coding expertise and outsourcing is expensive. The low-code Power Platform is more approachable by a larger pool of resources. Subject matter experts and employees with business process expertise can help accelerate modernization efforts, even if they’ve never written a line of code.
Boost worker productivity in a modern workplace. Power Platform is part of the Microsoft modern workplace. Applications modernized on the platform can take advantage of the capabilities of Microsoft 365, including engaging mobile experiences and easy, intuitive collaboration. Cutting-edge AI like Copilot, AI Builder, and features soon to be announced make users and developers more productive with less frustration and shallower learning curves.
Build the cart, not the wheel. Traditional software development starts fresh every time, reinventing the wheel with every new project. With low-code, intuitive, maker-friendly Power Platform products as your wheels, you can focus on building a better cart—improving your business processes—and enjoy the benefits of your modernization efforts sooner.
Enhance security and ensure compliance. All Power Platform products include fully integrated, enterprise-grade security, compliance, and governance out-of-the-box, starting with the environments they run in. Managed Environments is a suite of tools that allow admins to manage Power Platform at scale, with more control and less effort. Among other capabilities, you can limit who can share which flows and apps and with whom and use policies to restrict the connectors makers can use. Native, flexible data security models mean each application doesn’t have to build its own.
Reduce technical debt. The cost—both financially and in lost opportunities—of upgrading “quick and dirty” software solutions and maintaining legacy infrastructure is high. Power Platform reduces this technical debt by making it easier and cheaper to build solutions right the first time, simplifying data integration and governance with a common data model and connectors, providing a centralized platform for managing solutions, and supporting continuous improvement with analytics and AI.
Integrate legacy apps. Older applications often don’t have APIs. Power Platform’s RPA capabilities can automate classic apps and include them in your new modern business processes. RPA can also be helpful in incrementally modernizing large and complex apps.
Modernize as you go. The more significant the apps are that you want to modernize, the less likely it is that you'll want to replace them all at once. A low-code approach lends itself well to building solutions in manageable increments.
Next steps
Every organization’s journey to application modernization is unique. Technomancy can help you plan your journey and keep you on the right path along the way.
Here are some suggestions:
- Take a few minutes to find out what your organization is already doing with low-code. It might surprise you!
- Evaluate your application modernization opportunities.
- Identify and prioritize a good first candidate.
- Staff a team that will modernize the application. For the best results, make sure it’s a fusion team.
- Make sure the team has the necessary training to be successful.
- Allow the team to modernize the application.
- Reflect on the modernization effort. Refine and scale it to other legacy applications.
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